“Canada’s China Class”

Canada summons Chinese ambassador over alleged threats to MP Michael Chong

OTTAWA – The Liberal government is summoning China’s ambassador over allegations by Canada’s spy agency that a Chinese diplomat in Toronto was involved in a plot to intimidate a Conservative MP and his family.

Foreign Affairs Minister Melanie Joly said Thursday she asked her deputy minister to tell Chinese Ambassador Cong Peiwu that Canada will not tolerate any form of foreign interference in its affairs.

Joly confirmed media reports that the Canadian Security Intelligence Service believes a diplomat working out of China’s Toronto consulate had targeted Conservative MP Michael Chong and his relatives in Hong Kong, due to his criticism of Beijing’s human-rights record.

“The Chinese community here is frightened by the Chinese government, even though they are in Canada … A lot of Chinese organizations or social groups are very close to the consulate and to the embassy. Why is that? It’s not because they don’t understand the values, or they don’t trust or agree with the values. It’s just because they are so frightened. They know that the Chinese government is so brutal they could do anything.”

If you thought that those words appeared in some news story over the past few days, perhaps in an interview with a Canadian Security and Intelligence Service whistleblower speaking anonymously out of fear of prosecution under the Security of Information Act, you’d have guessed wrong.

At what point do we start kicking out China’s diplomats for interfering in Canada’s domestic affairs?

Given that the diplomat who was orchestrating efforts to target the family of an MP is still in Canada, still on the government’s list of diplomats, there is nothing China can do that will see the Trudeau government act.

Canada’s foreign interference scandal keeps coming back to the same question.

Why did Prime Minister Justin Trudeau create new procedures to detect and report on foreign attacks on our democracy, and then ignore their findings and recommendations?

Trudeau is Beijings Butt Boy.

During the 2021 federal election in the downtown Toronto riding of Spadina-Fort York, the young, progressive, ethnically-Chinese candidate seemed a shoo-in for the Liberals.

A rising political star with a history of youth advocacy, a university lecturer, entrepreneur and a reserve officer in the Royal Canadian Navy, Kevin Vuong was an ideal candidate for a party aspiring to better represent today’s Canada.

But it quickly came to an end.

The evidence of China’s interference in Canada’s democracy was already alarming. Now, it’s doubly so, with fresh revelations that Beijing not only meddled with successive federal elections but also attempted to intimidate a sitting MP.

The Globe and Mail previously reported, based on Canadian Security Intelligence Service documents, that Beijing operatives tried to swing some riding outcomes in the 2019 and 2021 federal elections, although no one is saying those efforts changed who formed government.

What exactly was going on at the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation when a 2016 donation was made supposedly on behalf of the Chinese government in an alleged attempt to influence the prime minister? A clear answer would be welcome, but the foundation has a long association with donors, and members, who were also trying to gain influence with the Liberal party and the government.

When it comes to Chinese Communist Party (CCP) interference in Canadian affairs, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is running out of runway. Not a week goes by that doesn’t bring fresh revelations about just how badly Canada’s national security has been compromised under his watch.

Trudeau cares only about protecting the grift for Canada’s China Class.

I don’t care if a foreign power is behind Trudeau’s ouster, in fact I wish them success and godspeed in their effort.

The Canadian Security Intelligence Service on Tuesday confirmed to Conservative MP Michael Chong that he and his family were targeted by the Chinese government after he sponsored a parliamentary motion condemning Beijing’s conduct in Xinjiang as genocide, the MP says.

He said CSIS also confirmed that Zhao Wei, a Chinese diplomat in Canada, was involved.

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OTTAWA — The serenity shown by one senior Liberal official in late March over the Chinese foreign interference saga was at odds with the fever that was gripping Ottawa.

At the time, it seemed the government was in real trouble. There was compelling testimony that suggested the Liberal party was warned by the security services that some of its candidates were helped by the Chinese government in successive elections.

The Michael Chong revelations leave little doubt that the Trudeau and his Liberal Party are criminally negligent for failing to notify Chong of the threat to his family from the Communist Chinese.

It was not an oversight. It is collusion, it is treason.

Trudeau says he’s asked for investigation of Chinese foreign interference aimed at Conservative MP

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said he’s asked his officials to investigate a report in The Globe and Mail that says the Chinese government has targeted Canadian MPs behind a Parliamentary motion declaring Beijing’s oppression of Uyghurs to constitute genocide.

Speaking in Question Period Monday, Mr. Trudeau was asked by Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre why a report on the matter from CSIS was produced in 2021 but no action was taken. He noted the Chinese diplomat reported by The Globe and Mail as involved in targeting Conservative MP Michael Chong is still listed as working in Beijing’s Toronto consulate.

“This is absolutely unacceptable and it shouldn’t have happened,” Mr. Trudeau told the Commons.

Seriously. We need to learn to riot like the French.