We don’t want to wake up one day and realize we’ve given away too much power and control to a country that doesn’t respect the rule of law or human rights.

Once we go down that path, it won’t be easy to keep Chinese influence out of our democracy.
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To late.
As usual, perception lags many years behind reality.
More Canadian companies were sold to multinational corporations than any other country in the 1970's.
  Canada became multicultural in the 70's and 80's, but before that Canada became multinational.
  If this isn't the Canada you thought you signed up for, if traditional values have disappeared, it's because Canada isn't a democracy, it's a multinational corporation, a subsidiary of the 1% world-wide oligarchy empire.