In an apparent satirical social media post, former Canadian Minister Dominic Cardy ‘welcomed’ Chinese EV maker BYD in Canada, accompanied by an article on BYD’s blacklist in Brazil over slave labour conditions at BYD’s largest plant outside China.

“Welcome to Canada, BYD! We only get upset about slavery in the past, not the present”

And what is lemmygrad?

From exit bans to arbitrary arrests, vague laws, unsubstantiated charges, grueling prison sentences, and secret executions — the risks keep growing for China visitors, and it’s not only about ‘dual citizens’ but also those with a non-Chinese citizenship.

In 2024, China confirmed it had detained British businessman Ian Stones, five years after he first disappeared in Beijing and almost 18 months after he was put on trial in secret and convicted of “illegally providing intelligence” to overseas parties, as reported the Globe and Mail. The same article says, among others,

Peter Humphrey, a former corporate investigator in China and advocate for detainees, said there was a “growing number of arbitrary and unjust detentions and imprisonments of foreign nationals.” Mr. Humphrey, a British citizen, was himself convicted by a Chinese court of spying in 2014, a widely criticized case that hinged on a confession he says was forced.

The article makes an interesting read.

In 2025, China also restarted to air forced confessions of foreigners in its propaganda channnels,

Reports say there are around 100 Canadians detained in China, some of them sentenced to death.

From your comment one can easily infer that you didn’t read the article.