Don’t we all wish we could be like SNC Lavalin or Bombardier or the big auto companies and the solutions to all our problems are just a phone call to the Prime Minister away?

Add the Ethics Commissioners name to the list of people along with former cabinet ministers Jody Wilson Reybould and Jane Philpott who obviously don’t understand old school politics.

The Chinese government’s goals are clear – be the dominant economic and military power in the world. And who’s going to stop them? Europe? Canada? It’s clear that the US is the only hope.

In the US/China dispute there will be no winners – the investment markets are trying to figure out how big the fall-out will be.  In the meantime, most of us haven’t figured out that China is playing to win the global war for economic dominance.