Scott Thompson Show

Canada is finally expelling a Chinese diplomat

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The Hamilton Today Podcast with Scott Thompson: Victory Day, Russia's most important secular holiday, has been overshadowed by the ongoing war in Ukraine this year. Over the weekend, thousands of fans flocked to Orillia, Ontario, to pay respects to Gordon Lightfoot at his visitation. Ottawa is clamping down on China’s critical-minerals foray in Canada, but not on prospecting. What does this mean? Coronation roundup! Ontario has passed a health-reform bill that will allow more private clinics to offer certain publicly funded surgeries and procedures in an effort to cut long wait lists for care. We are getting word that Canada will expel Zhao Wei, the diplomat from the Government of China whom Canada's spy agency alleged was involved in a plot to intimidate Conservative MP Michael Chong and his relatives in Hong Kong. Conservative MP Michael Chong says he was “shaken” to learn about the alleged Chinese campaign targeting him and his family in Hong Kong, and says not taking decisive action will only embolden Bei