This is pretty much a non-point. In the age of off-shore, ownership-obfuscated, tax avoiding company proliferation, any country "owning" a vessel means very little. To give an example, technically most "mining" companies in the world are Canadian. What that means in practice is they rent a desk in one of a handful of office towers in Vancouver to set their legal/financial headquarters in the country to access services and the TSX. They are certainly not "Canadian" in the true sense. I see news articles sometimes mentioning X Canadian mining company operating in South America, Africa, or SE Asia. If the true owners are not Canadian, the operations are not Canadian, the office workers, leadership team, and financial flows never touch Canada, it's not Canadian.

That said, I do agree it's inflammatory and probably not the best source.