Canada

Eight out of 10 Canadians say China has negative influence on world affairs: poll

More than 84 per cent of Canadians feel China has a negative influence on world affairs and only 8 per cent believe Ottawa should make closer ties with the country a priority, a new Nanos Research poll shows.

The same survey, commissioned by The Globe and Mail, found more than 46 per cent of Canadians feel the United States has a negative influence on world affairs.

But, nevertheless, more than two-thirds of Canadians surveyed felt Canada should make closer ties with the U.S. a priority.

It took Junior an awfully long time to speak out against China, he hasn’t acted just spewed hot air.

New report adds to years of warnings about Beijing’s meddling in Canadian politics: activists, experts

… Dennis Molinaro, a former national security analyst and now a legal studies professor at Ontario Tech University in Oshawa, said he is barred from divulging what he learned while working in intelligence on the China file.

But from those warnings issued in 2010 by Richard Fadden, then CSIS director, to more recent alerts, it is in some ways nothing new, he said.

“CSIS has raised it repeatedly,” said Molinaro. “We have this situation where … CSIS is warning that these activities are going on and we have no way of stopping them.”

Canadian intelligence officials recently confirmed that China is infiltrating and corrupting Canada’s democratic institutions. This needs to be fixed – and that begins with establishing a registry of foreign agents.

Global News reported Monday that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, along with his senior cabinet members, were warned by intelligence officials that Beijing had funded a “clandestine network” of candidates during the 2019 federal election. Beijing allegedly transferred at least $250,000 to at least eleven candidates and planted several operatives who worked as campaign staffers. Beijing operatives were also allegedly planted into the offices of elected MPs in an attempt to control their policy choices.

China and other nations are playing “aggressive games” with democracies, Justin Trudeau says amid reports Beijing is allegedly targeting Canada with a vast campaign of foreign interference.

The prime minister on Monday responded to a Global News investigation that detailed alleged efforts by China to fund a clandestine network of at least 11 federal candidates who ran in the 2019 election, among other allegations of election interference in that campaign.

Junior was China’s eager Butt-Boy for so long we have likely been thoroughly infiltrated. No wonder Canada’s allies no longer invite us to play.

Beijing says Toronto locations are ‘services stations’ to renew licenses – but China watchers say they monitor and pressure country’s diaspora

At a strip mall convenience store sandwiched between a hotpot restaurant and hair salon on the outskirts of Toronto, a clerk serves a steady flow of customers on a drizzly autumn morning.

In an office park a few miles away, a travel agent sorts through passports, arranging visas and booking tickets for her Chinese clientele.

And on a quiet street in a nearby suburb, a resident has grown frustrated that he and his family have been roped into an international row over a supposed network of clandestine Chinese police stations.