{"id":94901,"date":"2025-03-31T03:00:43","date_gmt":"2025-03-31T07:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=94901"},"modified":"2025-03-30T14:20:29","modified_gmt":"2025-03-30T18:20:29","slug":"the-first-genuine-bozo-moment-of-the-federal-election-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2025\/03\/31\/the-first-genuine-bozo-moment-of-the-federal-election-campaign\/","title":{"rendered":"The first genuine “bozo moment” of the federal election campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"

I saw a mention on social media that an Ontario candidate had publicly suggested that his primary opponent be dragged off to the Chinese embassy for some kind of reward, and I assumed it was another example of something being taken wildly out of context … but no<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Liberal MP Paul Chiang, left, and Liberal leader Mark Carney, right.<\/p><\/div>\n

So let’s just recap, because this is almost too surreal to believe.<\/p>\n

A sitting Liberal Member of Parliament \u2014 Paul Chiang \u2014 stood in front of a Chinese-language media outlet in January 2025 and said that if someone were to kidnap Joe Tay, a Conservative candidate and Canadian citizen, and deliver him to the Chinese Consulate in Toronto, they could “claim the one-million-dollar bounty”. That wasn’t some fringe YouTuber or anonymous social media post. That was a sitting MP, elected to represent Markham\u2014Unionville, who also happens to serve as the Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Diversity and Inclusion.<\/p>\n

Let me be crystal clear here: that’s not just inappropriate. That’s not just “deplorable”. That’s language lifted directly from the Chinese Communist Party’s playbook. Joe Tay is on a real bounty list. Not fantasy. Not fiction. A real HK$1 million bounty placed on his head by the Hong Kong police for supporting democracy and speaking out against tyranny.<\/p>\n

And what happens when a Canadian MP echoes that threat \u2014 on Canadian soil?<\/p>\n

Nothing.<\/p>\n

As of right now\u2014this minute \u2014 Paul Chiang is still an MP in good standing in with the Liberals. Not suspended. Not removed from caucus. No RCMP probe. No parliamentary discipline. Nothing.<\/p>\n

And the Carney campaign? The Liberal Party’s new face? Crickets. Absolute silence. Carbon Tax Carney, Trudeau’s old money-man turned globalist messiah, who’s spent the last month talking about “foreign interference” and demanding Pierre Poilievre get a security clearance? Not a word. Apparently, if a Conservative doesn’t submit to Ottawa’s surveillance state, it’s a national crisis. But if a Liberal MP plays mouthpiece for Beijing and jokes about abducting a political opponent? It’s just … Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Imagine for a second that a Conservative MP had said anything remotely close to this \u2014 maybe even joked about placing a bounty on a Liberal politician funded by a foreign regime. Every major newsroom in the country would have declared martial law. CBC would be live for 72 hours straight. The RCMP would have launched a task force. But because it’s a Liberal, they issue a press release. A shrug. A “deplorable” comment, followed by a half-hearted apology and \u2014 get this \u2014 no consequences.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

As former prime minister Justin Trudeau amply demonstrated, consequences are for other<\/em> people, not members of the Liberal caucus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I saw a mention on social media that an Ontario candidate had publicly suggested that his primary opponent be dragged off to the Chinese embassy for some kind of reward, and I assumed it was another example of something being taken wildly out of context … but no: So let’s just recap, because this is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,22,28,53],"tags":[52,188,917,908,1583,87],"class_list":["post-94901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cancon","category-china","category-media","category-politics","tag-absurd","tag-electionwatch","tag-hongkong","tag-liberalparty","tag-markcarney","tag-ontario"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-oGF","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94901"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94901\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94904,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94901\/revisions\/94904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}