Trudeau’s foreign minister owes China over $1 MILLION ?—why hasn’t he been fired?

No? Not even one? How about two?

What’s that? You don’t have any mortgages held by a Chinese state-run bank? Huh.

What about your friends and family? Really? Nobody you know has a mortgage with the Bank of China?

Wow.

It’s almost as if—and stay with me here—almost nobody in all of Canada has a mortgage held by the Bank of China, let alone two of them.

Yet, as we recently learned in a Globe & Mail story, Liberal foreign affairs minister Francois Philippe-Champagne has not one, but two mortgages held by the state-run Bank of China.

That puts Champagne in a ridiculously small category: Canadians with a mortgage held by a state-run Chinese bank.

And Champagne is in an even smaller category: Members of Parliament with a mortgage held by a state-run Chinese bank.

And amazingly, he’s part of yet another smaller category: Foreign affairs ministers with a mortgage held by a state-run Chinese bank.

All of this is very odd.

Now, despite the strangeness of the situation, if Champagne had shown himself to be tough on China then him owing them $1.2 million wouldn’t seem like such a big deal. However, Champagne has done the exact opposite.

He has been amazingly deferential to China, far more than most Liberal cabinet members, and that’s saying something.

Champagne effusively praised China when speaking to a China-run network:

“In a world of uncertainty, of unpredictability, of questioning about the rules that have been established to govern our trading relationship, Canada, and I would say China, stand out as [a] beacon of stability, predictability, a rule-based system, a very inclusive society," said Champagne in 2017.

He also went to extraordinary lengths not to even say the word “Taiwan,” after that country gave Canada a massive amount of personal protective equipment.

He has avoided every opportunity to even lightly condemn China, showing a remarkable devotion to never upsetting the Communist State.

This raises very disturbing questions.

Why does Champagne have something almost no other person in Canada has, a mortgage with China? Why does he have two of them? Why is he so pro-China?

Is the fact that he owes $1.2 million to China influencing his attitude, and thus influencing Canadian policy?

We cannot have someone in power with those questions hanging over his head.

He must resign.

He must be fired.

And in a sane world, he would have already been removed from his role.

But sadly, as we’ve all seen, this world is as far away from "sane" as possible.