text: Strange preoccupation with domestic politics in a nation where politicians bleat about free trade & globalization in a hollowed-out outsourced ... economy?  Here's the question, "Does China really care which 'Canadian political party' is 'in charge' of any of Canada's many government levels?"  When I hear "the party is strong" or "the party is united" re: any political party at the federal or provincial level, I wonder what that means to Canadians. Chinese companies (always state-organized, even if they pretend to be private) own a lot of real estate here, plus Alberta's bitumen sands, etc. Rural Conservative? Steven Harper sold the former Canadian Wheat Board to a subsidiary of Saudi Agricultural and Livestock Investment Co. for $250-million in 2012. Companies from China & India have purchased Canadian farmland. If foreign companies & states are buying up Canadian resources, why isn't Canada interested in owning itself? What does Canada own elsewhere? Politics is EMPTY in Canada.