Washington is anxious to see Ottawa update North America’s air defence, Canada’s ambassador to the United States says, ahead of the President’s first trip north of the border since taking office.
In an interview Friday, Kirsten Hillman, who is in Ottawa from her usual posting at Canada’s U.S. embassy to prepare for the talks, said air defence will be a key agenda item in Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s meetings next week with President Joe Biden.
Thought we gave it all to Ukraine.
The Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) is calling foreign interference activities by the Chinese government the “greatest strategic threat to national security.”
In a statement provided in French to CBC/Radio-Canada on Friday, a CSIS spokesperson said that this threat comes not from the “Chinese population” but from the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), which is deploying a strategy aimed at “geopolitical gains” on economic, technological, political and military fronts.
“To do so, it uses all the state powers at its disposal to carry out activities that directly threaten the national security and sovereignty of the country,” said the unnamed spokesperson.
I am not a Naval officer. But I am saddened to see Canada once again absent on the world stage while three of our closest allies finalize a security agreement.
If you thought Canada still mattered in the world today, all you needed to do was to watch the trilateral ceremony and press conference by U.S. President Joe Biden, U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese in San Diego on Monday to realize otherwise.
If the future belongs to those who give the next generation reason for hope, as asserted by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, we are on a path to failure.
Young people are dour about the future. Confidence in institutions is on the decline and a significant number believe Canada is on the wrong economic track.
The United States ran a secret probe into national-security threats posed by Chinese overseas operations that drew alarming conclusions about Canada, alleges a new book co-authored by a former RCMP officer.
The book says the project, code-named Operation Dragon Lord, led to an unnerving takeaway: that Beijing’s activities in Canada represented a security threat to the United States.
This investigation wasn’t triggered by recent headlines. It happened in the 1990s. Yet it provides a window into current controversies, argues the soon-to-be-released book The Mosaic Effect: How the Chinese Communist Party Started a Hybrid War in America’s Backyard.
The timeliness of that old episode will be underscored Monday when one of the key intelligence figures of the era testifies before a Canadian parliamentary committee.
The Mosaic Effect How the Chinese Communist Party started a Hybrid War in America’s Backyard
“Immigration fraud provided the key to opening the gate for the (REDACTED) to walk right into America’s backyard over thirty years ago through their neighbors to the North – Canada. There they created a base of operations along the 49th parallel, the line that divides the USA and Canada – the largest undefended border in the world. Then set about methodically building a United Front network of individuals and groups under the influence or control of the CCP. Surreptitiously infiltrating key institutions and eroding political underpinnings. In the words of one undercover American intelligence agent, “Canada has now become one of the pre-eminent security concerns of the U.S. government.”
Now that the CCP has positioned themselves next door to their greatest advisory by infiltrating key institutions and influencing the political landscape in Canada – what’s next?”
Fuck Trudeau. Fuck the China class. Fuck our Political class. Fuck our Corporate class. Fuck the racist Multiculturalists. They declared war on us.
I suspect the Globe leaker is not working alone and Justin’s ouster may in fact be part of larger action by “concerned allies” foreign and domestic to expose & rid the west of China’s agents in advance of a potential conflict.
New Zealand’s Jacinda Ardern, Scotland’s Nicola Sturgeon and our own Justin Trudeau are all considered China’s useful Idiots.
My theory on their demise may be coming true. Time to bid our ChiCom 5th Columnists adieu?
Two down, one to go – New Zealand’s Jacinda Ardern, Scotland’s Nicola Sturgeon And Canada’s Justin Trudeau – What Do They Have In Common?
It needs to be said: Multiculturalism and Diversity have turned Canada into a balkanized nation of 5th Columns. It was deliberate, don’t let the racists call you a liar.
OTTAWA — Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre said his party is pushing once again for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s chief of staff Katie Telford to testify in front of parliamentarians about Chinese’s alleged interference in past elections because she “knows all the secrets.”
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau refused to say Friday if he would make an attempt by Pierre Poilievre‘s Conservatives to force his chief of staff to testify on foreign election interference a matter of confidence.
MP are expected to vote as early as Tuesday on a Conservative-sponsored motion calling on Trudeau’s chief of staff Katie Telford to testify at one or the other of two House of Commons committees investigating allegations of election interference. That vote could test the strength of the deal NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh made last year with Trudeau to support the Liberal minority government on matters of confidence.
Jaggy ain’t gonna give up his meal ticket.
When I joined the public service many years ago, I swore an oath.
Not to party or to person, but to my country, to its democratic institutions and to my fellow Canadians.
When I first became aware of the significance of the threat posed by outside interference to our democratic institutions, I worked – as have many unnamed and tireless colleagues – to equip our leaders with the knowledge and the tools needed to take action against it.
More than 150 Indian students have been told to leave the country by the Canadian Border Security Agency (CBSA), which says they arrived in the country on forged college admission letters.
The students say they were unaware of the forgeries and insist they were duped by their immigration consultation agency in India that provided them the document.
Many who received the eviction letters are now embarrassed to come forward – living in a Western country is seen as a matter of prestige by many Indian families, especially in the state of Punjab where Dimple K is from.
“My mind is dark. I cannot move forward, nor go back,” said Dimple. She has been living in Canada on a student visa since 2017.
David Johnston is a remarkable Canadian, a model of integrity and decency throughout a lifetime of personal accomplishment and public service – as professor of law, as principal of McGill and as one of our finest Governors-General.
He is also a wildly inappropriate choice as independent special rapporteur, in the matter of China’s attempts to interfere in Canadian elections, and whatever blame might attach to the Liberal government for allowing them.
Johnston is no saint, just another seedy member of the China class.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is accusing the Conservatives of launching “horrific, partisan attacks” on former governor general David Johnston.
Trudeau delivered a full-throated defence of Johnston on Friday after tapping him this week to serve as special rapporteur on foreign interference.
The Conservatives say Johnston is too close to Trudeau, while the Bloc Québécois allege he has been “chummy” with China.
The Rapporteur schtick is a sham, the public inquiry schtick is a sham. What’s needed is that our government be deloused of the China Class starting with Useful idiot Trudeau and his fellow travelers.
Vancouver Mayor Ken Sim rejects ‘insinuations’ he won election due to Chinese interference
Vancouver Mayor Ken Sim denounced what he said were “insinuations” made in a news article alleging Canada’s spy agency found evidence of China’s Vancouver consulate interfering in last year’s municipal election.
“I’ll just say it: if I was a Caucasian male, we’re not having this conversation,” said Sim, Vancouver’s first mayor of Chinese descent.
“If there’s proof of foreign interference in our election, I want to know about it because I’m a Canadian … but right now there are a bunch of insinuations.”
Justin Trudeau’s government has been compromised by the Chinese Communist Party and Canada’s democracy is in jeopardy. This is a startling claim, all the more so for the fact that Canadian intelligence officials are the ones making it.
Over the past month, a series of leaks from within CSIS, the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, has stirred up an astonishing storm. In November, it was leaked that a clandestine CCP network had funded and infiltrated the campaigns of 11 candidates in 2019’s federal election.
… Mr. Johnston cannot seriously consider his task to be making a recommendation on whether there should or should not be a full inquiry. That has to be a given now. He can only be making recommendations on how broad that inquiry should be – and it has to be broad – or how to fit the requirement of protecting the secrecy of intelligence gathering with the necessity of telling the public what the heck is going on.
And at this point, the inquiry must deal with two sets of issues on two tracks. One is the narrow question of whether Prime Minister Justin Trudeau ignored credible warnings about Beijing’s meddling. The other is the broader issue of foreign interference throughout Canada’s politics.
Rare picture of two alleged Chinese agents have coffee together. pic.twitter.com/PBGNiprdLU
— Sanwin (@sanwins) March 17, 2023
Trudeau is mentally ill. He’s also among our most corrupt PM’s ever ranking with Mulroney for brazen deceit.
If there was any chance the appointment of a “rapporteur” to investigate Chinese Communist Party (CCP) interference in two Canadian elections would instill confidence in Canada’s democratic system, the chance evaporated when Prime Minister Trudeau appointed David Johnston to the role.
