MASSIVE march through the streets of Ottawa pic.twitter.com/ubLJVL9xEY
— The Pleb 🇨🇦 Reporter (@truckdriverpleb) February 18, 2023
Canada
Lack of Government Action on Chinese Interference Seems to Be What Led to CSIS Leaks
I’ll never forget July 18, 1983.
It was my first day on the job at the Communications Security Establishment, Canada’s signals intelligence (SIGINT) agency. I was all of 22 years old, days out of an MA from Western University and ready to start my first full-time job as a translator at the Department of National Defence (at least that is what I had been told). Now I was getting my indoctrination into what I was really being asked to do: Read sensitive intercepted signals and extract intelligence to be forwarded to senior government officials to help keep Canada safe.
"Justin Trudeau knew about this interference and he covered it up because he benefitted from it,” Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre tells reporters in Calgary when asked about a recent news report on alleged Chinese interference in the 2021 Canadian federal election.#cdnpoli pic.twitter.com/QLpjk5kErh
— CPAC (@CPAC_TV) February 17, 2023
B.C. MPs unseated with help of ChiCom influence on 2021 election, reporting alleges
Former Steveston Richmond-East MP Kenny Chiu wasn’t surprised by new reports that the 2021 election campaign that unseated him was subject to covert interference from the China’s former consul in Vancouver.
He remains concerned, however, that Canada’s lack of response to increasing evidence that Beijing seeks to influence its diaspora communities with social-media disinformation campaigns sends the message to authoritarian regimes, such as China, “that we are weak, that we will take no action to protect ourselves,” Chiu said Friday.
GOLDSTEIN: China’s assault on our democracy shouldn’t be state secret
What level of interference in Canada’s elections would China have to commit before Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government tells us about it?
According to reporting by Robert Fife and Steven Chase on Friday, CSIS documents seen by the Globe and Mail outline a highly organized campaign of interference in Canada’s 2021 election, where Beijing’s dictators had two goals — a Liberal minority government and defeating Conservative candidates viewed as anti-China.
Canada sending two small, slow naval ships to Haiti: Here’s what they might do there
Haiti is definitely a country in need. Armed gangs have taken control of much of the nation. Murder and kidnapping is rampant. And the government seems incapable of asserting its authority over the widespread lawlessness.
What’s less clear is how two small, relatively slow and lightly armed Canadian naval ships just deployed to Haiti can help alleviate its troubles — troubles that for the most part exist on land, not at sea.
Poilievre Praises ‘Courageous Whistleblowers’ in Security Apparatus for Leaking Files on China’s Election Interference
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre praised the “courageous whistleblowers” in Canada’s security apparatus for leaking top-secret documents on China’s interference in the 2021 federal election, as he levelled criticism at Prime Minister Justin Trudeau for “covering up the interference of the authoritarian regime in Beijing.”
‘I wonder if we were too liberal’: Jihadi Jack Letts’ mother on her ISIS convert son
On the morning of September 2, 2014, Sally Lane received a phone call from her teenage son that would change the course of her life.
“Mum, I’m in Syria,” Jack Letts, an A-grade student from Oxford, told her over a crackling line.
“You’ll get killed, you’ll get beheaded,” she remembers screaming at him before the connection dropped. “You stupid, stupid boy.”
Ya think?
Rupa Subramanya: Canada’s democracy died a little Friday afternoon
Is Canada turning into an electoral autocracy?
I ask this question in all seriousness. We’ve just witnessed the final chapter to the Emergencies Act invoked almost a year ago by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Friday afternoon declared legitimate in the report by Commissioner Paul Rouleau who headed the Public Order Enquiry Commission.
Poilievre accuses Trudeau of ignoring election interference by China
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre accused Justin Trudeau on Friday of ignoring Chinese interference in the most recent federal election because Beijing’s efforts were aimed at helping the Liberals — but Trudeau said his government is taking the threat seriously.
The Globe and Mail reported Friday that secret and top-secret documents from the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) said Beijing sought to ensure a Liberal minority government and the defeat of several Conservative candidates in the 2021 federal election. A former Chinese consul-general in Vancouver bragged about her efforts in helping to defeat two Conservative MPs, according to the reports detailed in the Globe story.
CSIS documents show China warned ‘Canadian friends’ of foreign-interference investigations
Chinese diplomats quietly issued warnings to “friendly” influential Canadians in early 2022, advising them to reduce their contact with federal politicians to avoid being caught up in foreign-interference investigations by Canada’s spy agency.
Secret and top-secret Canadian Security Intelligence Service documents viewed by The Globe and Mail reveal how China sought to protect its network of “Canadian friends” – a community it relies on to build relations, influence and covertly gather information from MPs and senators.
Canadians cannot trust the Liberal Party. They are loyal only to power & corruption.
This explains a lot today. pic.twitter.com/Wf5PMdvvsv
— Pierre Poilievre (@PierrePoilievre) February 17, 2023
Now the NORTHERN border is a mess, too
Last week, President Joe Biden took a victory lap following news that our southern border had “only” 156,274 illegal encounters in January. Not only does his spin ignore the fact that last month was the worst January on record in over 20 years for illegal encounters at our southern border; it ignores the worsening cost at our northern border.
My district in upstate New York includes six counties in the Swanton Sector, the most active sector of our northern border. In just the first three months of this fiscal year, Biden’s failure to secure the southern border has increased illegal encounters in the Swanton Sector by over 700%.
Former left-wing Canadian mayor tells parliament to combat the ‘radicalization of white people’
The former far-left mayor of Calgary, Alberta, Naheed Nenshi, who in 2021 called COVID protesters “white supremacists,” is now saying Canadian politicians should use their positions in parliament to combat the “radicalization of white people” in the stereotypically mild-mannered nation.
According to Blacklock’s Reporter, Nenshi, a Muslim, made the comments while testifying at the Senate human rights committee on Monday, which has an ongoing committee studying “Islamophobia” in Canada.
Canada still reluctant to declare Russia a terrorist state one year after Ukraine invasion
This much is clear about Russia’s actions in Ukraine. It has waged an unprovoked war of aggression, repeatedly targeted civilians and been accused of war crimes ranging from systematic rape to torture.
CSIS documents reveal Chinese strategy to influence Canada’s 2021 election by supporting Trudeau Liberals
China employed a sophisticated strategy to disrupt Canada’s democracy in the 2021 federal election campaign as Chinese diplomats and their proxies backed the re-election of Justin Trudeau’s Liberals – but only to another minority government – and worked to defeat Conservative politicians considered to be unfriendly to Beijing.
The full extent of the Chinese interference operation is laid bare in both secret and top-secret Canadian Security Intelligence Service documents viewed by The Globe and Mail that cover the period before and after the September, 2021, election that returned the Liberals to office.
No wonder Junior has been lying about about being briefed on CCP skullduggery, he was likely in on the plot. The LPC is a criminal organization that has reduced Canada to Banana Republic status.
h/t DM
Trudeau pledges more help for Haiti, stops short of suggesting military intervention
NASSAU, BAHAMAS – Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced a slate of new supports for Haiti in the Bahamas on Thursday including humanitarian aid and some naval vessels to help with surveillance.
But he stopped short of proposing the kind of military force its de facto prime minister is asking for, as experts urge him to put the brakes on growing discussions of foreign intervention.
Trudeau told a meeting of 20 Caribbean Community leaders that Canada will provide $12.3 million in new humanitarian assistance for the crisis-torn country and $10 million for the International Office on Migration to support migrants in the region.
I am not certain our combat trannies could best the Haitian gangs.