Best quotes by Terry Glavin on Canada

Checkout quotes by Terry Glavin on Canada

  • There is often little to distinguish what Beijing wants from what Canada's foreign affairs mandarins want out of the Canada-China relationship, which is in any case rarely even close to what Canadians want - like some demonstrable public benefit for once, the opinion polls consistently show.
    - Terry Glavin
  • The Canadian economy relies on foreign trade. Nearly three-quarters of Canada's exports go south.
    - Terry Glavin
  • Conceived as a short-term remedy to the occasional ailment of acute labour shortages in key industries, the indentured-labour service had to be dismantled by the Conservatives owing to its inevitably scandalous abuse by disreputable employers. By 2012, there were 338,000 temporary foreign workers in Canada.
    - Terry Glavin
  • In 1988, federal data showed a modest China-trade surplus of $1.6 billion in Canada's favour.
    - Terry Glavin
  • Chinese President Xi Jinping says that if Canada wants free access to Chinese markets, Trudeau should first ram a pipeline to the B.C. coast on China's behalf.
    - Terry Glavin
  • Trudeau claims he's wary about Chinese espionage, but also says there's nothing wrong with Chinese state-owned enterprises buying up as much of Canada's resource sector as it likes.
    - Terry Glavin
  • As far back as 2008, the Canadian Forces brass was explicit: drones with 'all-weather precision strike capabilities' were a 'requirement' for Canada's overseas operations.
    - Terry Glavin
  • Enough of the 'Canada is a modest country' boasts. Please. Just stop.
    - Terry Glavin
  • The IIP had to be folded up by the Harper Conservatives after it became clear - and as it took the 'South China Morning Post's Ian Young to reveal - that Canada's ragged refugee-class immigrants had contributed more to Revenue Canada than the IIP's big-spender immigrant investors did over the life of the program.
    - Terry Glavin