All around the world, even in Canada, you can see that most people don't look favourably on China anymore.
Public polling of companies and citizens across the world, Canada included, shows that populations have totally unfavourable views of the Chinese government. It's partly COVID. It's partly the Uighur genocide, where concerns about it have really exploded, including as a result of campaigns against the fashion industry using slave labour.
There's a combination of factors, and you see this everywhere—in Western Europe, in Asia. It's a dangerous time for the Chinese authorities because they've been acting in a way that's very authoritarian, and they're making many enemies, not just among governments but among individual citizens.
On the issue of genocide, I'm not sure if the average Canadian knows the details of everything that's going on, but it's pierced people's conscience, and the attack against journalists and politicians is not a good look for Beijing.