Forget about a partisan public inquiry into alleged Chinese interference in Canadian elections. Investigate immediately.
This is what Democracy Watch is strongly urging following the leak of Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) documents containing allegations that China violated rules and used influence and money to help Liberals win elections.
By now it will have dawned on many people that we have a full-blown, five-alarm national security crisis on our hands.
Two possibilities are open to us; each would be a crisis of a different kind. Either 1: rogue officers within the Canadian Security Intelligence Service have been making a series of sensational and wholly false accusations against the government of Justin Trudeau and certain prominent members of the Liberal Party, in an apparent bid to destabilize the government.
Or 2: the substance of the charges is true. That this is easily the more plausible of the scenarios underlines the gravity of the situation.
Despite the growing number of reports, attempted foreign interference isn’t a unique Canadian problem.
However, Canadian intelligence officials need to follow in the footsteps of their allies in being more forthcoming about it, a former Canadian diplomat to China says.
The difference is unlike Trudeau’s Liberal party other countries don’t welcome it.
The Trudeau tipping point is within sight.
The moment when Prime Minister Justin Trudeau knows he has to quit for the good of the party or the Liberals realize they can’t survive re-election with him at the helm is almost upon us.
The raging China saga has topped an annus horribilis year, which is not yet two months old, for a prime minister who now spends many days huddled in private meetings or touring the country to attend Liberal fundraisers while using ribbon-cuttings to disguise the travel tab as official government business.
Following news reports last Friday that the Chinese government intervened in the 2021 Canadian federal election in favor of Justin Trudeau, the prime minister is seeking to divert attention away from Beijing’s partisan preference.
“It’s not about one party versus another,” Trudeau said amid accusations that the Conservative Party was attempting to politicize claims of Chinese election meddling.
Every “ally” of Trudeau’s Chinada must now wonder how badly compromised the Trudeau government really is and what secrets have been given to the ChiComs by the Liberal Party.
h/t Martin
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) covertly influenced Canada’s 2019 and 2021 federal general elections in order to re-elect a Liberal government. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau does not want Canadians to know about the Chinese operations in Canada. These are the two threads that are woven through the never-ending-story of intrigue, scandal, and false narratives. It is a serious matter. The details being exposed about the CCP’s support for the Trudeau Liberals involve the integrity of our country’s democratic process.
Momentum is building by the day for a public inquiry to get to the bottom of China’s interference in the 2019 and 2021 federal elections.
Former chief electoral officer Jean-Pierre Kingsley, who served in that post for 17 years, was one of the first to call for an independent inquiry, saying last week that “the legitimacy of government is what is at stake.”
Remember two Conservatives were named as ChiCom Assets. The entirety of the NDP is already on board with the Red Menace so no need to cultivate them.
Our ruling class are all suspects now. The civil service, the political class, the media and the Corporate class. All are suspect.
China appears to have targeted Justin Trudeau in a foreign influence operation after he became Liberal Leader in 2013, according to a national security source who said Beijing’s plan involved donating a significant sum of money to the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation.
The source said the Canadian Security Intelligence Service captured a conversation in 2014 between an unnamed commercial attaché at one of China’s consulates in Canada and billionaire Zhang Bin, a political adviser to the government in Beijing and a senior official in China’s network of state promoters around the world.
Lackey picked to write report on Chinese election interference ran Trudeau Foundation when big donations came in from China
Everyone suspected the ChiCom funding but no one in the MSM seemed to care much about it.
Trudeau has to go. It is or should be plainly evident to all that Canada has a China Class problem. The CCP has bought its way deep into Canadian institutions to the point that our mainstream political parties, yes all of them, are likely as ChiCom riddled as the Liberal party.
The likes of Dominic Barton and John McCallum are proof that the rot is well connected and well placed.
And haven’t you wondered why Canada is given the cold shoulder by our 5 Eyes allies?
In common with many others, I have always thought Justin Trudeau’s receptiveness to China was down to naivete.
But, unless he is more transparent about the Liberal party’s dealings with Beijing in the last two elections, it looks like his sympathies were at least in part driven by partisan considerations.
There was an air of desperation in his reaction to media questions on the foreign interference story on Monday, as he maintained the line that the media reporting has been false, and that even discussing the issues is damaging to Canadian democracy.
OTTAWA – Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Monday denied a media report from last week saying his office had been warned by Canada’s spy agency to drop a Liberal candidate, who is now a member of parliament, because he had Beijing’s support.
The Chinese government preferred Han Dong, a Chinese-Canadian, over another Chinese Canadian Liberal, who was passed over in favour of Han, said Global News, citing anonymous security sources in a story posted online.
Justin Trudeau is now insinuating that anyone who believes the Global News reporting about Han Dong and has questions about Chinese election interference is actually stoking "anti-Asian racism." pic.twitter.com/xCwYyxGZbo
— Harrison Faulkner (@Harry__Faulkner) February 27, 2023
OTTAWA—A backbench Liberal MP from Toronto is rejecting what he calls “inaccurate and irresponsible” allegations that China helped him get elected as part of a campaign of interference in Canadian democracy.
“I strongly reject the insinuations in media reporting that allege I have played a role in offshore interference in these processes and will defend vigorously against such inaccurate and irresponsible claims,” Han Dong wrote in a statement posted on social media.
There can be a tendency among the public to write off political scandals as nothing more than partisan infighting, and it’s often an understandable tendency.
These days politicians and their proxies turn every little misstep made by their opponents into the biggest of dramas, demanding inquiries and resignations for things that don’t even register in the minds of the public. Sometimes the noise that comes from political circles probably seems to people as just that, noise.
The Privy Council Office says an assessment of the work done by a panel tasked with flagging incidents of foreign interference during the 2021 federal election is now complete and has been sent to the Prime Minister’s Office and the National Security and Intelligence Committee of Parliamentarians.
OTTAWA – An assessment of the work done by a panel tasked with flagging incidents of foreign interference during the 2021 federal election is now complete and has been sent to the Prime Minister’s Office and the National Security and Intelligence Committee of Parliamentarians, the Privy Council Office has confirmed.
A Critical Election Incident Public Protocol created to monitor and report threats during the 2019 and 2021 elections is required to publish a post-election assessment of its work.
The 2019 evaluation came about seven months after the campaign held that year, but the 2021 report is still not available more than a year after Canadians went to the polls.
This past week, disturbing revelations were made painstakingly clear to Canadians: the People’s Republic of China and its intelligence apparatus threaten our nation’s security and our democracy.
On the evidence, the authoritarian dictatorship in Beijing has interfered in our elections to the benefit of Trudeau’s Liberals and the detriment of Canada’s democratic foundations. While their tactics demonstrate a blatant disrespect for our way of life, they also show our inability to respond effectively.
The RCMP says it is investigating serious allegations of war crimes and crimes against humanity stemming from Russia’s war on Ukraine — but it warns that getting cases to the prosecution stage could take years.
“We really try to manage expectations, to say this may be quite a process to investigate something,” said Cpl. Kate Walaszczyk, an investigator with the RCMP’s Ukraine war crimes unit.
“It can take quite some time.”
Justin Balks and China Walks…
RCMP says no criminal investigation into Chinese election interference.
No surprise. I have zero faith in the @rcmpgrcpolice since Commissioner Brenda Lucki politicized the police to serve Trudeau & the Liberals.@Matt_HorwoodWS has the disgusting tale.https://t.co/JzwU8Wtw0J
— DonaldBest.CA * IT ENDS WHEN WE DO NOT COMPLY (@DonaldBestCA) February 26, 2023
