Canada Has Raised ‘Strong Concerns’ With Beijing for Targeting of Tory Candidate Joe Tay: Global Affairs
Ottawa says it has reached out to Chinese and Hong Kong authorities to express concerns over the targeting of Conservative candidate and Hong Kong pro-democracy advocate Joe Tay, and that it is monitoring the situation closely after Tay’s relatives were taken in for questioning last week.
MARKHAM — A controversial diaspora pressure group with ties to Chinese consular circles in Toronto is demanding that Pierre Poilievre step down, following an election marked by Beijing’s attacks on Conservative candidates, and renewing the same type of challenge it posed to former leader Erin O’Toole, which first drew national security attention after the 2021 federal contest.
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Following years of diplomatic and trade tensions, China’s ambassador to Canada, Wang Di, insists the two countries can move past what he characterizes as “normal” differences.
“For China and Canada to bring our relationship back onto the right track, we need to seek common ground while reserving differences in a constructive way,” Wang said through a translator in an exclusive broadcast interview with CTV’s Question Period, airing Sunday.
“China and Canada have a lot of differences, and this is very, very normal,” he also said.
Now-former Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau famously complimented China’s government.
Newly installed Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney is a globalist who has frequently criticized his American counterpart, President Donald Trump.
Though Canada and China have had their difficulties, some reports indicate that the two nations are ready to “move forward” in their relationship.
It may be that the US knows how deep China is into Canada and seeks to eradicate the threat by annexing Beijing’s outpost.
VANCOUVER, Canada — Around the time Canadian police uncovered a massive Chinese drug cash bank in Richmond, B.C.—exposing the so-called Vancouver Model of transnational money laundering—investigators made another stunning discovery that has never before been publicly disclosed.
According to sources with direct knowledge, operatives tied to Beijing’s foreign influence arm, the United Front Work Department, were orchestrating a parallel cannabis trafficking and money laundering operation—leveraging Canada’s legalization of marijuana to export the lucrative commodity to the United States and Japan. The scheme used short-term rental platforms to operate illicit cannabis brokerage houses in Vancouver, aggregating product from vast acreages across Western Canada and shipping it to destinations including Tokyo and New York City. Proceeds were collected in United Front-linked drug cash brokerages in those cities and laundered back through Canadian banks.
Canada is no longer a serious country — at least not when it comes to foreign policy and moral fortitude.
Over the last several years, Ottawa has failed to articulate any meaningful strategy in response to major global events, while at the same time jeopardizing some of Canada’s most important diplomatic relations. This should set alarm bells off in Washington. If Canadian and U.S. foreign policy remain this misaligned, the consequences for America could be serious.
Hong Kong Police Detain Relatives of Canadian Candidate Targeted by Beijing Election Interference
HONG KONG / OTTAWA — In a striking escalation of Beijing’s interference in Canada’s Parliament and its global campaign to silence dissent, Hong Kong police have reportedly detained and questioned relatives of former Conservative election candidate Joe Tay—who was targeted by aggressive Chinese cyber and ground operations during the recent federal campaign, according to The Bureau’s intelligence sources.
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As Prime Minister Mark Carney is set to meet with U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday, the federal government has its work cut out for it following a tumultuous few months in domestic politics — not just on the tariff front with the U.S., but also with the world’s second-largest economy.
In the fall, Canada followed in the footsteps of then-U.S. president Joe Biden in implementing an additional 100 per cent surtax on Chinese-made electric vehicles — a move critics say makes less sense now considering the fractured relationship with our southern neighbours, our climate goals and China’s counter-tariffs on Canadian canola farmers.
China is Happy, Carney is Happy, Carney’s Cronies are Happy, Canada’s China Class is Happy, Net Zero Loons are Happy and Danielle Smith is Canola Happy!
Orange Man Bad.
How would the media react if Donald Trump had received a quarter of a billion dollars from Russia or China just prior to his presidential bid? It’s easy to guess: screaming headlines, indignant calls for impeachment, prosecution, demands for the electric chair. Every news anchor, political pundit, intelligence expert lining up to denounce the travesty with letters signed by infinite lists of former and acting national security officials, etc. And that’s for starters.
But progressive technocrat Mark Carney flies to Beijing to obtain $300M from the Bank of China four months prior to being appointed prime minister by Canada’s Liberal Party, calls snap elections, which he wins without a majority, and the media only praises him. Conservative rival Pierre Poilievre highlighted Carney’s compromised relations with China on nationally televised debates. He also pointed out how the former Bank of Canada governor and U.N. point man on climate change staunchly supported CCP-linked Liberal MP Paul Chiang, calling for goon squads to persecute opponents.
“They thought we couldn’t give money out to our friends while parliament was prorogued.” https://t.co/c50J7UFhAm pic.twitter.com/F4TOssKr8o
— Andy Lee (@RealAndyLeeShow) May 3, 2025
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Some of Beijing’s top critics in Parliament were re-elected this week, but a Conservative candidate said by authorities to be targeted by a Chinese regime operation lost his bid to sit in the House of Commons.
There is no evidence so far that Joe Tay fell short because of the Chinese regime’s efforts, but in the lead-up to the vote, election security officials had warned he was the victim of a transnational repression operation.
China says it wants to partner with Canada to push back against American ‘bullying’
OTTAWA — China’s ambassador says Beijing is offering to form a partnership with Canada to push back against American “bullying,” suggesting the two countries could rally other nations to stop Washington from undermining global rules.
“We want to avoid the situation where humanity is brought back to a world of the law of the jungle again,” Chinese Ambassador Wang Di told The Canadian Press in a wide-ranging interview.
“China is Canada’s opportunity, not Canada’s threat,” he said through the embassy’s interpreter.
Wang — whose office requested the interview with The Canadian Press — said that China and Canada appear to be the only countries taking “concrete and real countermeasures against the unjustified U.S. tariffs” imposed by U.S. President Donald Trump.
A Conservative candidate critical of Hong Kong laws is the target of a “transnational repression operation,” Canada’s election interference task force said on Monday.
The campaign to discredit Joe Tay, who is running for the Tories in the Toronto riding of Don Valley North, is taking place on Chinese-language social media platforms as well as Facebook and TikTok.
Liberal Leader Mark Carney says China poses one of the biggest foreign interference threats to Canada.
Carney made the remarks at a campaign stop in Niagara Falls on April 18.
The Liberal leader had been asked by a reporter to expand on his comments at the English-language leaders debate on April 17, where Carney said China is the “biggest security threat” facing Canada.
Two RCMP members who openly called for the resignation of nine cabinet ministers in a letter say they are motivated by patriotism, not politics.
Sgt. Peter Merrifield and retired Detective Paul McNamara blew the whistle on what they describe as a catastrophic breakdown in Canada’s national security infrastructure and shared their reflections on the YouTube podcast Northern Perspective.
Mark Carney, another globalist-elitist China entangled type.
Just as heading into the November election Americans felt that it would be the most consequential in a lifetime, Canadians feel the same about the present contest in Canada. And it is fascinating that the Liberal Party’s strategy leading up to Canada’s election has been similar to that of the Democrats in the American election, as if they were operating from the same playbook. The most striking feature of this similarity is that both parties started out with unpopular leaders, and so both got rid of them and replaced them with someone different, but without bothering to consult the voters. Whereas the Democrat party parachuted in Kamala Harris to replace a feeble and unpopular Joe Biden without her having garnered a single vote in the primaries, Mark Carney was plopped in as leader of the Liberal party, though he had never ever run in an election. And now, given the idiosyncrasy of Canada’s parliamentary system, Carney is now running as the anointed prime minister.
