I can find no reference to his age, or to the year in which he immigrated to Canada. Hong Kong was transferred to China on July 1, 1997, 29 years ago, so I could not determine if he immigrated to Canada when Hong Kong was British, or part of China. But unless he is younger than 41, it was before Hong Kong was transferred back to China, and he would probably have been, rough;y interpreted, a British Subject in Limbo, (A British passport to the rest of the world but not really a British passport in Britain). This certainly goes towards addressing any issue of bias, and if he could hold a Chinese passport by birth.

https://passportia.org/en/uk-citizenship-hong-kong.php

This certainly does put an interesting twist on the Canada-China dialogue. It is really difficult to sort through fact-from-fiction, depending on where you were indoctrinated with your Chinese history knowledge.

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[–] Paragone@lemmy.world -1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Very true.

Worse, torque is applied to people who're elected, until their entire frame-of-reference is nothing like what normal-people's is.

I knew a guy who lost a federal within-party election ( he didn't become that riding's candidate ), & I told him directly, that I was glad he lost, because after he'd been "lobbied" enough, he wouldn't be him, he'd become fake, as his context/frame-of-reference was replaced by the phony "context" that special-interest-groups wanted him having.

Don't know how he felt about that, but it was true.

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[–] ProudCanadianCitizen@lemmy.ca 1 points 15 hours ago

The thing is, he was a former PC that patched over to a Liberal, so what was the political torque applied to him, Liberal or PC?