Among this week’s many disturbing revelations about the Trudeau government’s official indifference to Beijing’s interference operations during the 2019 and 2021 federal elections, what might come as the biggest shock to most Canadians is just how easy it was for Chinese high school students to be bused in to vote for Beijing’s favoured candidate in a Liberal party nomination race in the Ontario riding of Don Valley North.
Canada’s electronic spying agency obtained “significant” intelligence related to the “distribution of funds” shortly after the 2021 elections, the interference inquiry heard April 4.
The Communications Security Establishment (CSE) is responsible for collecting signals intelligence (SIGINT) and generally cannot collect intelligence on Canadians or in Canada. Information presented to the inquiry suggests it was able to intercept or hack into foreign communications to retrieve information about elections interference.
From 2021 to 2022, the number of international students in Canada grew 116 per cent. In 2023, it rose another 60 per cent, to roughly 900,000. In 2000, Canada had just 122,665 international students. We now have seven times that number.
Part of the problem is a rush in applications after pandemic restrictions were lifted. But Ottawa predicts the growth in applications will continue — reaching 1.4 million in 2027. If so, foreign students will continue to be a significant element in Canada’s record population growth — and in the attendant pressure on housing, infrastructure and health care.
News Release – Suspect to be Identified for Striking a Toronto Police Service Horse at a Demonstration, Gerrard Street East and Parliament Street, Images releasedhttps://t.co/Vlz4acsRiY pic.twitter.com/Nu2I7Z4Gkr
— Toronto Police (@TorontoPolice) April 4, 2024
NDP MPs Charlie Angus, Carol Hughes and Rachel Blaney all announced Thursday that they will not be seeking re-election.
“After seven elections, 20 years of service in Parliament, and the privilege of being the longest-serving MP in Timmins history, it is time to pass the baton,” Angus wrote in a social media post on Thursday.
Inarguably bigger and more seasoned than it was when it was born from the ashes of the Second World War, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization — the West’s great military alliance — celebrated a milestone Thursday: three-quarters of a century of keeping the peace in Europe.
NATO formally came into being with the signing of the Washington Treaty in the U.S. capital 75 years ago, when 12 western democracies — including Canada — banded together against what they saw as Soviet Russia’s expansionism in Europe.
Its creation helped to inaugurate the Cold War and, six years later, brought about the creation of the rival Warsaw Pact of communist countries, led by the Soviet Union.
“With CSIS, everything’s a big secret,” Ontario Premier Doug Ford once said about a 2022 briefing his government received about Chinese interference.
It seemed funny at the time, because of course Canada’s spy agency is secretive. But when you hear the way federal officials failed to pass on useful information of foreign election interference to political parties during the 2021 election campaign, you can see the problem.
Justin Trudeau: immigration into Canada is far too high
Temporary immigration is too high and putting undue pressure on Canadians, Justin Trudeau has claimed.
“Over the past few years we’ve seen a massive spike in temporary immigration,” the Canadian Prime Minister told an audience on Tuesday. “Whether it’s temporary foreign workers, or whether it’s international students in particular that have grown at a rate that’s far beyond what Canada has been able to absorb.”
Trudeau started flooding the country with immigrants as soon as he was elected.
He called anyone who raised objections a racist and white supremacist.
Now suddenly he admits his own mass immigration policy has failed!!!
Yes indeed, immigration to Canada “has grown at a rate… pic.twitter.com/KWgvU8BFAN
— Maxime Bernier (@MaximeBernier) April 3, 2024
Former Conservative leader Erin O’Toole believes foreign interference may have led to his removal as party leader, according to documents tabled before the foreign interference inquiry.
In a document containing notes from an interview between O’Toole and lawyers acting for the Foreign Interference Commission earlier this year, O’Toole is quoted as saying he was suspicious about the motives of the person behind the petition that called for a leadership review following the 2021 election.
End the day of hate
We must reclaim our streets from those weaponizing the Israel-Hamas conflict to destabilize our society. Canadian leaders must proactively take measures to prevent the normalization of the incitement that is tearing apart the fabric of our society at its seams.
First declared by the Iranian leader Ayatollah Khomeini in 1979, Al-Quds Day is held annually on the last weekend of Ramadan. It is an expression of the Islamic Republic’s radical regime’s desire to reconquer Jerusalem, erase the Jewish State, and destroy the Jewish people.
The political will to ban Al Quds Day does not exist in Canada.
Votes are all that matter to our craven Pols so you can count on them to do the wrong thing in the name of preserving “social cohesion”.
Psst … B’nai Brith why are you defending “multiculturalism” when that’s a big part of what landed us in this mess?
Canadian cities are being overwhelmed by a record surge of newcomers seeking asylum, straining their budgets and pushing temporary shelters beyond their limits.
In Peel, a suburban region in greater Toronto, the shelter system is running at 300% of capacity, with asylum-seekers occupying more than 70% of the beds and many more camping on the streets, according to Patrick Brown, the mayor of Brampton, Ontario.
I’ve been stunned by the panic over next Monday’s solar eclipse. I’ve lived through many eclipses, solar and lunar, and cannot recall such official hysteria.
I’m not talking about excitement at witnessing a celestial phenomenon. That’s understandable. An eclipse is fascinating and just infrequent enough that wanting to watch one is perfectly natural.
In July 2019, world-renowned biological researchers Xiangguo Qiu and Keding Cheng were quietly walked out of the Canadian government’s National Microbiology Lab (NML). The original allegation against them was that Qiu had authorised a shipment to China of some of the deadliest viruses on the planet, including Ebola and Nipah.
Qiu and Cheng, a married couple, subsequently lost their security clearances and were then fired by the NML in January 2021. At the time, both were subject to investigations by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and the Canadian Secret Intelligence Service (CSIS). The NML said both had lost their positions for ‘breaches of policy’; it did not say what those breaches or policies had been.
Then the story seemed to go away—until now.
Nearly 600 stolen vehicles have been recovered from shipping containers in the Port of Montreal over the past few months as part of an interprovincial auto theft investigation, and 75 per cent of them were stolen in Ontario.
Speaking at a news conference Wednesday, Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) and the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) announced the results of “Project Vector” – an operation to recover stolen vehicles that made it to the Port of Montreal and were intercepted before they could be illegally exported.
WOW. One of Canada’s top medical schools @QueensUHealth has announced they will discriminate against White people.
They have a special program called QuARMS which is an “Accelerated Route to Medical School” and the qualifications are you must be Black or Indigenous.
White… pic.twitter.com/F5ngHyh8tW
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) April 3, 2024
