Chinese Communist Party (CCP) operatives allegedly acted as Elections Canada poll workers in the 2021 campaign, according to documents submitted to a federal inquiry, per Blacklock’s Reporter.
Former Conservative MP Leona Alleslev in a sworn affidavit said she was told by Chinese Canadian constituents they knew of foreign operatives working at polling stations.
Canada’s goal of reducing carbon emissions cannot be achieved without relying on China, a new energy industry report says.
The key to success is copper, an essential component of electrification, according to the authors of “Securing Copper Supply: no China, no energy transition,” published by data and analytics firm Wood Mackenzie.
China dominates in the smelting and refining of copper, which is essential to creating tools needed for cleaner energy and reduced carbon emissions, the report says.
The Center for Strategic & International Studies just revealed the enormity of China’s subsidization of its EV industry
Will she or won’t she? Will Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland announce tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles this week? If so, will she follow the American lead and tack on a 100% levy on any battery-powered vehicle BYD or Geely might dare to try to import to the United States? Or will ours be a more nuanced — dare I say World Trade Organization-approved — approach like the “variable” tariffs the E.U. are finalizing? The entire Canadian automotive industry awaits her decision with bated breath, with more than $50 billion — the monies promised to Volkswagen, Stellantis, et al to build battery plants here in the Great White Frozen North — hanging in the balance.
What are Trudeau’s China class backers saying?
Toronto and Vancouver have the largest Chinese and Hong Kong diaspora populations in Canada, yet it was in Quebec that the RCMP launched a special program to encourage the community to report cases of Chinese Communist Party (CCP) harassment.
The program was launched in early July and features social media videos in Chinese, French, and English, with the Quebec RCMP announcing that it is actively engaged in investigating Chinese interference in the province. It also features uniformed officers going into the Chinese community and encouraging people to report cases of harassment by the Beijing regime.
Now that Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre and his party have joined the chorus calling for more action against Chinese imports, a key decision facing Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland this month just got a little easier.
Cross-party consensus on the wisdom of lining up with the Biden administration’s incoming tariffs on made-in-China electric vehicles provides the government with more political cover. But there’s still a risk of incoming flak.
To understand how complicated this gets, consider how then-president Donald Trump’s earlier campaign against Chinese state-sponsored overproduction played out for the United States and its trading partners in what was then NAFTA, now the Canada-United States-Mexico Agreement (CUSMA). That policy debate got very confusing for voters who like to slot politicians on a predictable left-right axis.
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre has pledged to match steep U.S. tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles if elected, something the Liberal government is considering but has to decide on.
The call comes after Ottawa wrapped up a 30-day consultation process on Chinese EVs last week and has not said when those findings — or any decisions that may come as a result — will be made public.
The Conservative leader is also calling for tariffs on Chinese steel, aluminum, EV batteries, and wants Ottawa to stop handing out rebates for the purchase of Chinese EVs.
A Canadian investigative journalist has acquired a top secret 2019 parliamentary report, revealing that the Chinese are aiming to secure Canadian resources under indigenous control.
The June 2019 draft report of the National Security and Intelligence Committee of Parliamentarians (NSICOP) was acquired by Sam Cooper, a former Global TV investigative journalist who now reports for The Bureau on substack.
A Canadian warship was deployed to the Bering Strait in July to keep an eye on a Chinese polar research vessel as it navigated the passage between Russia and Alaska, underscoring Beijing’s growing interest in the region.
The HMCS Regina shadowed the Chinese Research Vessel Xue Long 2 sometime between July 7 when it left its home port of Esquimalt, B.C., and July 25 when it returned.
Chinese media has reported Canadian Foreign Minister Mélanie Joly was severely “reprimanded” during her unannounced three-day visit to China on request of Beijing.
Joly told the Globe and Mail it was she who was “stern” with her Chinese counterpart Foreign Minister Wang Yi, and said she “raised very firmly” the matter of Chinese interference in Canadian elections.
Whenever a Canadian politician travels abroad, it’s always useful to see how the foreign press reports on their trip. It helps one gain insight into how the host country really sees Canada, and whether we are accomplishing anything, or just shooting ourselves in the foot. Case in point: Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s ill-fated jaunt to India in 2018, which was panned by the Indian media for his Bollywood cosplay and photo ops with Sikh extremists. Not exactly a shining moment on the world stage.
This is Justin performing for Canada’s China class. No doubt he has visions of large donations to his foundation post politics.
Foreign Minister Mélanie Joly’s visit to Beijing last week was built around an understanding of China that’s at least a decade out of date.
The minister and more than a few media analysts lauded the opportunity (the first by a Canadian foreign minister in almost seven years) for “dialogue” with China’s leadership. But dialogue involves a conversation, a shared approach to illuminate or resolve an issue. It’s what happens when senior officials from normal countries meet. But China hasn’t been a normal country since Xi Jinping ascended to paramount leadership in 2013. Xi’s China doesn’t do dialogue.
Justin’s backers are in love with Xi’s dollars.
It’s a circle that can’t be easily squared.
On the one hand, there’s the spectacle of Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly happily abasing herself at the feet of Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi in Beijing on Friday after being summoned to China to take instruction on how Canada should behave itself as Xi Jinping persists in flouting international trade rules, accelerates his encirclement of Taiwan and pours ever greater resources into Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly says she didn’t soft-pedal Beijing’s interference in Canadian affairs or its human-rights record during blunt talks with her Chinese counterpart Wang Yi last week, a one-day visit aimed at reopening channels of dialogue after six years of a deep freeze in bilateral relations.
Ms. Joly met with the Chinese foreign minister for three and a half hours at the Diaoyutai State Guest House in Beijing on Friday but the two ministers did not break any significant ground in strained bilateral relations. A major reset is unlikely in part because of unfavourable perceptions of China among Canadians, she said.
Uh, what is Joly talking about? It’s not “the government” that has a problem with China interfering in our elections, threatening our citizens etc. but “Canadian perceptions”? …What? https://t.co/3uvO0fke47 pic.twitter.com/tbm7v6S5bp
— Robyn Urback (@RobynUrback) July 22, 2024
Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly’s visit to China comes at a time when there’s increased scrutiny of the Beijing regime’s meddling in Canada and harassment of the diaspora community, raising questions about the timing of the trip.
An ongoing public commission is currently examining China’s interference in federal elections and other areas of society. And just this month, the RCMP in Quebec took the unusual step of launching a public campaign calling for tips about Beijing’s harassment of Canada’s Chinese diaspora.
The Liberals are anti-Trump weasels and likely fear they will be stiff armed in trade by the Trump presidency, so naturally the LPC seeks out a fellow weasel regime for trade purposes.
Chinese international students passing on Canada: ‘Monotonous’ and unaffordable
When 19-year-old Ricky Liu was applying for universities in the fall of 2022, one thing occupied his mind: how to score a seat at a top-ranked institution. Both Chinese and Western universities courted Liu, a dual citizen of mainland China and Hong Kong: he was fluent in multiple languages, scored high grades in STEM and humanities courses, and showed leadership through his extracurricular activities in sports and music.
