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As the Olympic torch blazes through Guangzhou, it’s being greeted by millions of patriotic Chinese. It’s also being touted by a new group of Canadian businessmen who are angered and embarrassed that their Prime Minister, Stephen Harper, has said he will boycott the opening ceremony of the Olympics. Indeed, since the trouble over the torch arose in London, the China Daily has been running opinions by foreigners who disagree with the confrontational tactics of certain dissenters—such as trying to rip the flame from a woman, 27-year-old Jin Jing, in a wheelchair in Paris. Shawn Rayson of Toronto, Canada is firmly in this camp. The group he recently formed in Guangzhou consists of several heads of Canadian businesses — the majority of whom wish to remain anonymous so as not to upset their corporations. Not Rayson, one of a handful of independent Canadian business people who has been working in China for 13-years. “When I read that Harper said he wasn’t ...

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