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Canadians of Chinese origin make up the largest non-European ethnic origin in Canada. In fact, the Chinese community is the 5th largest of any ethnic origin in Canada other than English or French. In 2001, there just over one million people of Chinese origin living in Canada. That year, they represented approximately 4% of the total Canadian population.

Australia will almost surely become the most China-friendly country in the West with Kevin Rudd becomes the next Australian prime minister. How would that affect Canada-China trade?

The quick answer is: Canada will tail behind more.

Canada should wrap up more free trade agreements with countries - including China - and revamp the national trade policy because Canada is disappearing from the international stage, a parliamentary committee warns.
"Ultimately, free trade is where we want to go [with China]," International Trade minister David Emerson said. This is the first time a federal Tory minister has made it clear that a free trade talk with China is at least on the drawing board.

"I want to live a normal life." Chinese fugitive Gao Shan pleads upon his release from detention, hoping the public could respect his privacy. China's Ministry of Public Security has asked Canada to extradite Gao for allegedly embezzling US$128 million from customers' accounts to Canada.

In a weird twist of product bans, and perhaps to show that it works both ways - China has banned all chicken coming from Canada after a farm in Western Canada discovered some of their chickens infected with a strain of bird flu that (unlike the kind that killed a bunch of people in China) is not lethal to humans.

Faced with empty seats and soaring costs, tiny Harmony Airways is headed for a forced landing early next month. Harmony has had high hope in opening up more routes between Canada and China. However, the indefinite delay of the signing of the ADS agreement between the two countries has crushed Harmony's hope to stay afloat.

OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canada and other countries should discourage or prevent their citizens from going to China to get human organs whose "donors" may have been killed so that the organs could be harvested, a team of human rights lawyers said on Wednesday.

Former Canadian cabinet member David Kilgour decried "organ tourism," whereby rich foreigners go and pay for a transplant which, Kilgour said, may have cost a Chinese citizen his life.

The Chinese embassy in Ottawa had no immediate comment.

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After a year and a half of arrogance and grandstanding on China's human rights record, our prime minister, under increasing pressure from the business community to mend a defacto broken Sino-Canadian relationship, is now blaming the public servant for not putting more emphasis on China.

78 women were found victimized as prostitutes in brothels in Vancouver, Canada... and useless Chinese Canadian leaders are off playing with their wankers elsewhere or looking for new photo ops