Six months after Prime Minister Mark Carney called China Canada’s greatest security threat, Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand is gushing about forging a “strategic partnership” with it.

“There are going to always be challenges in any relationship,” Anand cheerily told last week. “What we are aiming to do is recalibrate the relationship, so that it is constructive and pragmatic.”

This is all par for the course with the Carney government, where words literally mean nothing, or more accurately, mimic Humpty Dumpty in Lewis Carroll’s where, as he scornfully advises Alice: “When I use a word, it means just what I choose it to mean – neither more nor less.”

Where Carney’s “Elbows Up” rhetoric during the election campaign, about how to handle the trade threat posed to Canada by U.S. Preside

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