A businessman whose reported donations to the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation led to the resignation of its CEO is the president of a Chinese cultural organization that says it operates under the authority of the communist government.
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BC Chinese Communities Tell Mendicino of Intimidation by Foreign Powers and Proxies
Federal Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino says Chinese community members in Vancouver have told him of “intimidation, harassment and abuse” linked to foreign governments or their proxies, confirming the need for a foreign agent registry.
Mendicino said he met Wednesday with a “robust cross-section” of people from the communities.
The results, he said, reinforced the need for a registry of agents who are acting on behalf of foreign governments in Canada.
The LPC should be registered as a foreign agent.
Intelligence agency says cyber threat actor ‘had the potential’ to damage critical infrastructure
One of Canada’s intelligence agencies says a cyber threat actor “had the potential to cause physical damage” to a piece of critical infrastructure recently.
“I can report there was no physical damage to any Canadian energy infrastructure. But make no mistake — the threat is real,” said Sami Khoury, head of the Canadian Centre for Cyber Security out of the Communications Security Establishment.
They won’t say but they’re talking bout BCF.
GOLDSTEIN: Trudeau should bite bullet and call public inquiry into election interference
Surely, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau now realizes that his self-appointed “special rapporteur” and life-long friend, David Johnston, isn’t going to solve his problems when Johnston advises him by May 23 whether he should hold a public inquiry into alleged interference by Beijing in the last two federal elections.
Carson Jerema: Trudeau Foundation deserves its fate
The Trudeau Liberals are as committed as ever to the shameless argument that the scandal is not Chinese interference into Canadian affairs, but the fact that China’s meddling was revealed to the public. It is a tactic that can’t withstand anyone looking too closely, or facts getting in the way, as was the case with the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation this week.
The charity said Wednesday that it would conduct an investigation into a $200,000 donation allegedly made on behalf of the Chinese government in an apparent attempt at influencing Justin Trudeau. That announcement came after the CEO and the entire board of directors of the foundation resigned, and after the Liberals tried to blame “Conservative” attacks for the upheaval.
‘These stories are based on unnamed sources,’ and other Liberal deflections
On Sept. 29, 1972, a story appeared on the front page of The Washington Post that began as follows: “John N. Mitchell, while serving as U.S. Attorney General, personally controlled a secret Republican fund that was used to gather information about the Democrats, according to sources involved in the Watergate investigation.”
Not “allegedly.” Not “reputedly.” The story flat out accuses the chief law enforcement officer of the United States government of running a political espionage operation on the side, with the obvious implication that this might have included the Watergate break-in.
Justin Trudeau’s most trusted adviser has always avoided the spotlight. That’s about to change
Within the next month, Katie Telford will gain a new distinction — she will be the longest serving chief of staff to any Canadian prime minister since the position was created in the late 1970s.
It might not be how Telford would have predicted things would turn out when she first met Justin Trudeau almost 17 years ago in Toronto, but much about their working relationship has hinged on what wasn’t exactly expected.
Poilievre Criticizes Former Governor General Johnston Over Trudeau Foundation Links
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is criticizing former governor general David Johnston for his previous membership with the Pierre Elliot Trudeau Foundation, which has received funding from the Chinese regime in the past.
Johnston was recently appointed “independent special rapporteur” by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to investigate Chinese interference in Canada’s elections.
Most Canadians feeling less safe than before COVID-19 pandemic: poll
A new poll suggests most Canadians feel they’re less safe now than they were before the COVID-19 pandemic, and most think the provincial and federal governments are doing a poor job of addressing crime and public safety.
In an online survey, Leger and the Association for Canadian Studies asked how the level of crime and violence in a respondent’s home community today compares to how it was before the pandemic began in early 2020.
Trudeau announces more support for Ukraine, provides $2.4 billion ‘loan’
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau met with Ukraine Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal Tuesday to offer more support.
Trudeau said he reiterated Canada’s solidarity with and support for Ukraine as it defends itself against Russia’s brutal, full-scale invasion.
During the visit, Trudeau announced Canada will provide additional military aid to Ukraine, sourced from Colt Canada.
,@FinanceCanada will subsidize Ukraine to the end, says @CaFreeland as taxpayers' aid hits $8B: "We'll be there til Ukraine wins the war." https://t.co/an3ZR6i9KM #cdnpoli pic.twitter.com/4N2X01vUHD
— Blacklock's Reporter (@mindingottawa) April 12, 2023
Trudeau Foundation will exonerate itself with independent review of ChiCom Payola Scandal
The Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation says it will be launching an independent review of the organization’s acceptance of a donation “with a potential connection to the Chinese government.”
The foundation’s board reached this unanimous decision prior to dissolution, according to board chair Edward Johnson.
“This review will be conducted by an accounting firm instructed by a law firm, neither of which were previously involved with the Foundation,” Johnson said in a statement to CTV News.
Joel Kotkin: China wants to vassalize the West — Trudeau and Biden want to let it
Throughout history, more powerful nations have preyed on smaller ones, as is now being demonstrated by Russia’s brutal invasion of Ukraine. Yet for those outside Europe, China’s economic power makes it a far more formidable threat to democracy than neo-tsarist Russia; Russia’s GDP is smaller than that of Canada or Australia’s, and barely a 10th of China’s.
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Un-returnable Chinese donation triggered governance crisis at Trudeau foundation: newspaper
The taxpayer-backed Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation was plunged into crisis in March, several weeks after the Globe and Mail reported that a major 2016 donation ultimately came from the Chinese state rather than a Beijing billionaire, according to an internal document obtained by La Presse.
Shortly after the Globe story broke, the foundation publicly announced it would return $140,000 to the Chinese benefactor.
Rest easy Canada the repatriated ISIS whores are now free to roam your streets
Women brought back to Canada from ISIS camps released on bail
Two Toronto-area women were ordered released from custody on Tuesday after returning to Canada from detention camps for ISIS suspects in northeast Syria.
Ammara Amjad and Dure Ahmed had been detained by the RCMP on terrorism allegations since landing in Montreal with their children last Thursday.
Other countries do the right thing and strip citizenship from these sick murdering Mohammedan cultists.
Federal government asked Twitter and Facebook to remove newspaper article, documents show
Newly released documents show that a federal government department asked Facebook and Twitter to delete a newspaper article that it felt contained errors — but both social-media giants denied the request.
The request to remove social-media posts that linked to an unspecified Toronto Sun article came from a director of communications at Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada on Sept. 27, 2021.