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Former CSIS officials say decades of China warnings went unheeded

Former CSIS officials say the intelligence agency has been warning successive governments about foreign election interference for decades but all failed to act — and measures outlined in this week’s budget are not enough to address the problem.

“Thirty-two years in national security work, every time we’ve had a crisis, every time we’ve had an incident, that’s what the government’s done. We’ll throw money at the RCMP, we’ll say you folks have got to sort that out. And I don’t think that’s really an appropriate response,” Dan Stanton, former executive manager at the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS), told a committee of MPs on Friday.

by Blazingcatfur•April 1, 2023April 1, 2023•0•"Canada's China Class", "China - Communist Slave State", Canada, Canada's Corporate Welfare Class, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Canada's Corrupt Political Class

Liberal MP says he won his riding ‘fair and square’ after rival tells committee he was undermined by Beijing

Liberal MP Parm Bains said he won his B.C. riding in the last election “fair and square” after his former opponent told a parliamentary committee foreign interference by Beijing played a role in his victory.

Bains sits on the Commons ethics committee and was sitting across the table when former Conservative MP Kenny Chiu told MPs on the committee Friday he believed Bains was the “beneficiary” of a disinformation campaign he suspects was tied to the Chinese Communist Party during the 2021 election campaign.

by Blazingcatfur•April 1, 2023March 31, 2023•0•"Canada's China Class", "China - Communist Slave State", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Foreign Interference Eclipses Espionage as a Threat, and Beijing Takes the Lead: CSIS Veteran

The threat from foreign interference, with Beijing as the main culprit, has evolved to become more dangerous to the state than traditional espionage, a former executive with Canada’s spy agency told MPs.

“What we’ve seen, in the last 30 years, is that foreign interference has eclipsed classic espionage as a national security threat, both in terms of its scope and its speed,” said Dan Stanton, a 32-year veteran of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS).

by Blazingcatfur•April 1, 2023March 31, 2023•0•"Canada's China Class", "China - Communist Slave State", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Terry Glavin: Beijing apologists have conjured a racist bogeyman. It’s total nonsense

Among the various types of outlandish and sinister responses to the recent revelations about Beijing’s emissaries interfering in the 2019 and 2021 federal elections to the purpose of re-electing a Liberal government, the conjuring of bogeymen has been especially destructive to any clear public consensus about what’s at stake here, and what’s really going on.

by Blazingcatfur•March 31, 2023March 31, 2023•0•"Canada's China Class", "China - Communist Slave State", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Romanian, Indian families found dead crossing into US from Canada

Six people from two families — one of Romanian descent with Canadian passports, the other from India — were found dead in a marsh near the Canada-US border after trying to cross illegally into the United States, police said Friday.

Their bodies were discovered late Thursday near a capsized boat belonging to a missing man from the Akwesasne Mohawk community, local deputy police chief Lee-Ann O’Brien told a news conference.

“The six individuals are believed to be from two families, one of Romanian descent and the other believed to be citizens of India,” she said, adding that they include five adults and one child under the age of three.

h/t AndyCanuck

by Blazingcatfur•March 31, 2023March 31, 2023•0•Canada, WTF?

Governments Used ‘Fifth-Generation Warfare’ During COVID, Robert Malone Tells National Citizen’s Inquiry

Governments used “fifth-generational warfare” techniques to modify public perception during the COVID-19 pandemic, while the reporting of media outlets shifted into propaganda, two experts testified at the National Citizen’s Inquiry (NCI).

“Over the last three years, Western governments, non-governmental organizations, as well as media, pharmaceutical, and financial corporations deployed a massive, globally harmonized psychological and propaganda operation,” said Dr. Robert Malone.

by Blazingcatfur•March 31, 2023March 31, 2023•0•"China eats weird animals disease", Canada

Former CSIS official calls for new security agency to counter PRC interference

Two former intelligence officials called for a complete transformation of Canada’s security apparatus to counter expanding foreign interference operations that they say have been essentially ignored by Ottawa since the 1990s.

On Friday the House of Commons standing committee on access to information, privacy and ethics heard recommendations for a new national and independent office with powers to investigate and prosecute acts of foreign interference, and also rapid adoption of counter-interference laws that have already been implemented by Canadian allies such as Australia.

by Blazingcatfur•March 31, 2023March 31, 2023•0•"Canada's China Class", "China - Communist Slave State", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

WARMINGTON: CBC drag queens talking with kids story draws different reactions

Is a sit-down conversation with young children and drag performers in a classroom another step to “normalize” what was once considered an alternative lifestyle?

by Blazingcatfur•March 31, 2023March 31, 2023•0•Big Deviant, Big Tranny, Canada, CBC, CBC Scandals, WTF?

Lucki’s gun call wasn’t political interference but new rules are needed: N.S. mass shooting report

A report on the 2020 mass shooting in Nova Scotia says then-RCMP commissioner Brenda Lucki’s infamous call to local Mounties was “ill-timed and poorly expressed” — but did not amount to political interference.

The sprawling report calls for clearer guardrails between Ottawa and the RCMP, saying last summer’s scandal “illustrates that misunderstandings about police operational responsibility and ministerial policy responsibility persist within the RCMP and in broader public conversation in Canada.”

by Blazingcatfur•March 31, 2023March 31, 2023•0•Canada, RCMP, WTF?

6 bodies, including 1 child, recovered from St. Lawrence River

UPDATE – The dead are believed to be families attempting to enter the U.S. illegally

The bodies of six people, including one child with a Canadian passport, were recovered from the St. Lawrence River near Akwesasne late Thursday afternoon, according to police in the community.

The first body was located at about 5 p.m. ET in a marsh area near the U.S. border, the Akwesasne Mohawk Police Service said in a release. The Mohawk community straddles the Canada-U.S. border and occupies territory in Ontario, Quebec and New York state.

by Blazingcatfur•March 31, 2023March 31, 2023•0•Canada

Chinese State Media Broadcasting in Canada Is ‘Foreign Interference,’ MPs Hear

Chinese state media outlets should not be granted broadcasting licences in Canada because their content is meant to feed “misinformation, disinformation, and propaganda” to overseas Chinese, an expert witness told a House committee on March 30.

The Chinese regime has made it clear it wishes to use overseas Chinese to exert influence abroad, and “this becomes interference instead of simple influence,” said Katherine Leung, policy advisor for the non-governmental organization Hong Kong Watch.

by Blazingcatfur•March 31, 2023March 30, 2023•0•"Canada's China Class", "China - Communist Slave State", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Biden’s Northern Exposure: Joe Biden and Justin Trudeau share a basic admiration of China.

“So today, I applaud China for stepping out,” said Joe Biden on Friday before the Canadian Parliament. The members immediately burst out in laughter. “Excuse me,” Biden said, “I applaud Canada.” The Delaware Democrat might have been right the first time.

Under Justin Trudeau, it’s becoming ever harder to distinguish Canada from China, and Trudeau is a big fan of the Middle Kingdom. He made that clear back in 2013, when asked which nation he admired the most.

by Blazingcatfur•March 30, 2023March 30, 2023•0•"China - Communist Slave State", Canada, USA

Sounds like an equity hire bonanza …

WARMINGTON: Sources say impropriety probe results into seven suspended female youth jail guards expected soon

Roy McMurtry Youth Centre The Ford government and the Ontario corrections community is bracing for the results of an investigation into seven female jail guards suspended last year at Brampton’s Roy McMurtry Youth Centre under a cloud of scurrilous allegations, according to sources.

by Blazingcatfur•March 30, 2023March 30, 2023•0•Canada, WTF?

GOLDSTEIN: Trudeau promises deficits for as long as he’s in power

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s 2023 federal budget makes it clear the Liberals are never going to deliver a balanced budget to Canadian taxpayers, despite repeated claims they would, starting in 2015.

That means Canadians will be paying for Trudeau’s deficits long after he’s gone.

That’s the point Justin doesn’t give a crap about consequences or collateral damage he thinks only in terms of self-aggrandizing selfies.

by Blazingcatfur•March 30, 2023March 30, 2023•0•Canada

Trudeau’s Battle Against a Free Internet

A proposed new law would give the government the power to filter what Canadians see in their news feeds, on YouTube and on social media. It also could block the next Justin…

In January 2007, Justin Bieber’s mom, Pattie Mallette, posted a video of her son, then 12, covering R&B star Ne-Yo’s “So Sick” at a kids’ singing competition in a little town near Toronto.

“I told him, ‘Okay, you’ve never sung in front of anybody before, and you’ve never had singing lessons,’” Mallette told me. ‘Let’s adjust our expectations.’ ” Bieber finished third. “One of the judges actually left because she was upset that he didn’t come first,” Mallette said.

by Blazingcatfur•March 30, 2023March 30, 2023•0•Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Censorship