Canada needs a public inquiry into allegations of Chinese election interference, Canada former spymaster says.
Speaking in an interview with The West Block‘s Mercedes Stephenson, airing Sunday, Richard Fadden, the former head of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service and former national security advisor to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, said he “can’t see any compelling reason not to” hold a public inquiry.
Communist Chinese attempts to alter Canadian election results — quelle horreur! — didn’t change the overall election.
Well, that’s Thanksgiving news. No story here. Let’s ride on by.
Justin Trudeau keeps digging himself a deeper hole on the issue of Chinese meddling in Canadian elections.
When troubling reports came out in November, he first said it was nothing new. Then he said he hadn’t actually been briefed that any candidates may have been helped or harmed by Beijing. Lately he’s been arguing we shouldn’t worry much because China didn’t actually affect the outcome of our elections.
Three weeks before Canada’s 2019 federal election, national security officials allegedly gave an urgent, classified briefing to senior aides from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s office, warning them that one of their candidates was part of a Chinese foreign interference network.
According to sources, the candidate in question was Han Dong, then a former Ontario MPP whom Canada Security Intelligence Service had started tracking in June of that year.
Good reporting, pity nothing will come of it as it touches all members of the UNIPARTY.
h/t k1962
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is ruling out a public inquiry to examine China’s interference in Canada’s democracy and once again insisted the influence activities of Chinese diplomats and their proxies did not affect the outcome of the 2019 and 2020 elections.
Speaking to reporters in Toronto marking the anniversary of Russia’s all-out military assault on Ukraine, Mr. Trudeau said he is satisfied with hearings now being conducted by a parliamentary committee into the past two election campaigns.
Trudeau won’t catch much flak at all for failing to call an inquiry, thank Poilievre for that.
Poilievre sucked the air out of the ChicCom interference story with his boneheaded comments on Christine Anderson.
With those comments Poilievre told his CPC cronies that he doesn’t care about the fears and concerns of average Canadians and that the CPC will continue to support a callous & destructive policy of mass immigration.
By his statement Poilievre also signalled he was a fully pledged member of the UNIPARTY.
Former chief electoral officer Jean-Pierre Kingsley is calling for an independent inquiry into China’s sophisticated strategy to interfere in the 2019 and 2021 federal elections.
Mr. Kingsley, who served in the post from 1990 to 2007, said it is disturbing that CSIS documents reveal Chinese strategy to influence Canada’s 2021 election and illegal methods to help favoured candidates in the two most recent campaigns.
The Trudeau government is actively obstructing efforts to shine a public light on Beijing’s interference at the core of Canada’s democratic processes. Why?
Here’s how bad it’s got. It was just another day in Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s “post-national” state, and the proceedings of the Standing Committee on Procedure and House Affairs collapsed in chaos on Tuesday after the Liberals moved to hobble the committee’s ability to elicit documents related to Beijing’s clandestine interference in the 2021 federal election.
It was ugly. Here’s how ugly.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino have more than once insinuated that alarms about Beijing’s interference in the 2019 and 2021 federal elections are a ploy in a Trump-style strategy to undermine public confidence in the legitimacy of democratic election outcomes. That should show you just how badly Team Trudeau wants us all to shut up about what Beijing has been up to in Canada, and to stop asking how much Trudeau and his ministers know about it.
Something is terribly rotten within the Liberal Party.
Chrystia Freeland rings national security alarm about founders of Canadian bank with suspected ties to China
Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland is raising national-security concerns about Wealth One Bank of Canada, telling three of its founding shareholders that they could be susceptible to Chinese government coercion, according to two sources.
The shareholders are also facing allegations from other Canadian financial institutions that they have engaged in money laundering, according to a letter sent by Ms. Freeland to the three individuals late last year.
The most recent reports have revealed just how extensive China’s activities have become, and exposed the Trudeau government’s astonishing reluctance to treat them with the seriousness they deserve
Once established, it can take a long time to escape a bad reputation, as Canada has when it comes to China.
It’s been decades in the making, with successive prime ministers seized by the perceived gains to be had from the world’s most populous market. The current prime minister famously expressed his enthusiasm for the one-party state’s “basic dictatorship.”
Political spin on election interference helps China undermine democracies: Trudeau
OTTAWA – Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says members of Parliament who put a political spin on foreign election interference are helping China undermine Canadians’ confidence in their democracy.
He says playing “political games” to get a partisan advantage will undermine people’s trust in their institutions, and will only assist the efforts of countries like Russia and China that attempt to make democracies unstable.
He told reporters today that Canadians must have trust in the electoral process, regardless of which political party is in power, and parties must work together on the issue.
We now know the Canadian Security Intelligence Service found there was an organized Chinese-government effort to interfere in Canada’s election in 2021. What we don’t know is whether anything has been done with that information.
It’s not a question of exposing CSIS’s spy-versus-spy world of clandestine surveillance and neutralizing threats with shadowy techniques.
The LPC is in Cahoots with the ChiComs no bones about it.
… Among the allegations were that if O’Toole formed government, he’d ban the popular social messaging app WeChat, and that his hawkish stance on the Chinese government would lead to an increase
in anti-Asian racism in Canada, accusing him of mirroring then-U.S. president Donald Trump who referred to COVID-19 as the “Chinese virus.”
“O’Toole is like former US President Trump 2.0, completely inheriting his mantle,” reads one posting included in the memo.
“In fact, there are already signs that O’Toole is ‘on par’ with Trump.”
Trump? I wish!
More evidence that the LPC is a subsidiary of the CCP.
The Canadian military found and retrieved Chinese monitoring buoys in the Arctic this past fall, a development whose public exposure adds another item to a list of pressing concerns about Beijing’s interventions in Canadian affairs, including interference in recent federal elections.
The buoys were spotted by the Canadian Armed Forces as part of Operation Limpid, a continuing effort to provide early detection of threats to Canada’s security. Earlier this month, the North American Aerospace Defence Command shot down a different Chinese surveillance device: a high-altitude balloon that traversed North America before it was destroyed.
The LPC and the corporate class must be getting greased pretty good by the ChiComs and Canada’s China class.
Junior seems always willing to kowtow to Beijing in order not to offend the CCP’s embedded 5th column.
There has to be a reason for it. What do they have on Junior & Co?
Canadians in every corner of this country need to be alarmed by the latest evidence that China has criminally interfered with, and attempted to influence the results of, Canada’s last two federal elections in 2019 and 2021.
But perhaps equally concerning is the Canadian government’s languid response to these shocking reports – compiled by the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS), but revealed in The Globe and Mail – which detail an extensive scheme meant to corrupt our elections and determine which political party forms Canada’s federal government, as well as the kind of power the elected government would be allowed to wield.
I would not be at all surprised if the ChiComs had dirt on Junior.
Oh no you don’t, Prime Minister.
Bombshell revelations that suggest Chinese agents actively, fraudulently and successfully manipulated Canada’s electoral integrity in the last two federal elections cannot be dismissed with the standard Justin Trudeau nothing-to-see-here shrug.
The allegations, based on top-secret Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) reports viewed by the Globe, are too insidious, too detailed and too important to ignore.
