Chinada

See also: chinada

English

Etymology

Blend of China +‎ Canada.

Proper noun

Chinada

1. (usually derogatory) A version of Canada influenced or politically dominated by the People's Republic of China.
   • 2014 February 20, “Canada Says No To Chinada”, in South China Morning Post‎^[1], Hong Kong: South China Morning Post Publishers Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 11 September 2023:

     For the tiny 35-million population of Canada, including some selfish former Hongkongers who landed shortly after the Tiananmen massacre in June 1989, it would be a nightmare to witness the country that they love transform into a Chinada.

   • 2017 June 29, Simon Ostheimer, “World's best Chinatowns”, in CNN‎^[2], archived from the original on 2023-07-27:

     In recent years, a reverse brain drain has seen Canadian-born Chinese moving back to Hong Kong and China in search of better job opportunities (there are up to 300,000 Canadian passport holders in Hong Kong). ¶ They've been replaced by a new wave of Chinese arrivals, this time from the mainland. As one commentator puts it: "Forget Hongcouver, here comes Chinada!"

   • 2021 June 28, Mack Lamoureux, quoting Adam Skelly, “BBQ Bro Who Raised $350K to Fight Lockdowns Defeated by His Lawyer's Paperwork”, in VICE‎^[3], archived from the original on 2023-05-15:

     Unsurprisingly, Skelly and his team are already painting what happened away as simple corruption. Skelly laid the groundwork for this in his morning blog, writing "the Crown will rely on procedural BS or a biased judge." Afterwards on Twitter he wrote, "welcome to Chinada."

   • [2022 December 26, Jack Farrell, “Arden rental policies under scrutiny after controversial event”, in St. Albert Gazette‎^[4], St. Albert, A.B.: Great West Newspapers, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-12-29:

     At the Dec. 15 event, which The Gazette attended, Pawlowski told the crowd "we are in the middle of tyranny," comparing COVID-19 public health measures to his childhood in Poland under a communist government. ¶ [Artur] Pawlowski also said he calls Canada "Chinada" because of the fines and charges he has faced for breaching pandemic-related health measures.]