Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s claim over the weekend that he does “not have any information,” nor has he “been briefed on any federal candidates receiving any money from China,” raises a few deeply troubling possibilities.
“Canada’s China Class”
Elections Canada chief not aware of Chinese election interference allegations
Canada’s top elections officer says he wasn’t aware of allegations of Chinese interference in the 2019 election prior to seeing reports about it on the news.
Testifying before the standing committee on procedure and house affairs on Tuesday, Elections Canada’s Chief Electoral Officer Stéphane Perrault told committee members he wasn’t aware of the allegations — made last month in a report by Global News — until reading about it.
GUNTER: Trudeau’s denial on China’s interference simply ludicrous
Just who does Prime Minister Justin Trudeau imagine is going to believe him?
On Sunday, during a stop in Tunisia to attend the Francophonie summit, our prime minister insisted to Global News that he had no idea who the 11 candidates were who received money and support from China’s Communist government during the 2019 federal election.
Liberals stick to script amid hard questions over what PM knew about Chinese election interference
Renewed questions about what Prime Minister Justin Trudeau knew about alleged Chinese interference in the 2019 federal election had Liberal cabinet ministers sticking to their prepared notes during question period on Monday.
A few queries into question period, Bloc Québécois MP Alain Therrien challenged the prime minister’s assertion on Sunday that he hadn’t been briefed on the revelations.
Those comments counter ones made by sources to Global News last month that Trudeau was informed in January that as many as eleven Liberal candidates received funding by the Chinese government.
Xi Dresses Down Trudeau
When you get a tongue-lashing from your boss.
Canada is heavily infiltrated by China, aided by a longtime partnership between the Chinese leadership and Justin Trudeau. See more HERE.
During the G20 meetings, Trudeau, who has been referenced as “little potato” by China, was openly reprimanded by China’s leader Xi Jinping…
Canada’s China Class At Work: Pension Funds Invested In Communist China’s Slave State
Could your pension plan be funding human-rights abuses in China?
At least three federal and six provincial pension funds in Canada are investing in Chinese companies complicit in human rights abuses in Xinjiang, a new report alleges.
Pension funds in a number of western countries have also invested in companies involved in a Chinese government labour-transfer program accused of subjecting the country’s Uyghur minority to forced labour or internment, according to the report by U.K.-based human rights organization Hong Kong Watch, in collaboration with Prof. Laura Murphy at Sheffield Hallam University.
Trudeau says no intelligence briefing happened on Chinese interference in election
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he has never been briefed that any candidates in a Canadian election were influenced by financing from the Chinese government.
A Global News report earlier this month cited unnamed sources who claimed Trudeau was briefed last January that China was trying to interfere in Canadian politics, including by funding at least 11 candidates in the 2019 federal election.
My guess is CSIS likely doesn’t trust Trudeau or the Liberal Party.
Canada needs to take a harder line on ‘evil authoritarian regimes’ like China: senator
Following claims that Chinese agents interfered in recent Canadian elections and stole industry secrets from Hydro-Québec, Conservative Sen. Leo Housakos is calling on the Canadian government to take a much harder line against China — a country he describes as “an evil authoritarian regime.”
Housakos has introduced a bill, S-237, that would establish a foreign influence registry in Canada — a system that would compel agents working on behalf of a foreign government to either register their interactions with public officials in Canada or face criminal penalties.
Under this proposed law, any foreign-backed agent who fails to declare any interaction with a “public office holder” — like a cabinet minister, an MP, a senator or a senior government official — could be charged with a crime and face hefty fines and up to two years in jail.
GOLDSTEIN: Canadians kept in dark about foreign interference in elections
If there was significant interference by China in Canada’s last two federal elections, which seems increasingly likely, the federal agency specifically created by the Trudeau government to inform the public about it said nothing.
That suggests one of two things, both alarming.
Trudeau Tries to Play Catch-Up on China’s Interference, but Is Chasing His Own Tail
Canada is in the global spotlight, again. A reporter at the G20 meeting in Bali captured Chinese leader Xi Jinping threatening Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau over leaks of an earlier meeting between the two, in which Trudeau reportedly confronted Xi with intelligence leaks to the media about China’s election interference.
Yes, there was a leak about a leak.
Diversity is killing us.
Xi’s ‘Dismissive’ Demeanour Towards Trudeau a Result of Weakness on China Policy, National Security: Senator
Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s “dismissive” behaviour towards Prime Minister Justin Trudeau at the G20 summit is a result of the Liberal government’s failure to treat national security issues seriously, says Conservative Senator Leo Housakos. Other Tory lawmakers are calling for stronger actions to address Beijing’s interference in Canada.
Canada’s Trudeau Gets Publicly Clown-Slapped by Commie Master Xi Jinping
Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau received a verbal spanking from China’s commie dictator Xi Jinping at the recent G20 Summit.
Watch Xi scold Trudeau about for leaking their private conversation to the Canadian press. Check out their body language. Xi looks pissed. Trudeau looks like a cuck.
This has gone viral, what a dolt. I bet Junior set this up with his press thinking he would look like a hero. Xi made him look like a twit, which he is.
Trudeau still wants it both ways on China
Even as President Xi Jinping criticized the PM at the G20 summit, Canada is still trying to do business with Beijing.
Any reasonable observer would have to admit that until Wednesday, anyway, the Liberal government had been doing quite a good job of putting a bold and rosy gloss on the humiliations, embarrassments and scandals that have lately encumbered its foundational policy of kowtowing to China’s Xi Jinping in the hopes of winning trade advantages and global-statesman status for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
China Experts, Canadian Politicians Weigh In on Xi’s Confrontation With Trudeau
Canadian politicians and China experts have offered their observations on Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s confrontation with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau at the G-20 summit on Nov. 16, when Xi told Trudeau that he shouldn’t have “leaked” details of their conversation to the media the day before.
Toronto businessman allegedly focus of Communist Chinese interference probes: sources
A prominent businessman in Toronto’s Chinese community is the subject of two separate investigations involving foreign interference, sources tell Global News, both related to a series of briefings and memos that Canadian security officials allegedly gave to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau beginning in January.
The Canadian Security Intelligence Service has investigated Wei Chengyi for his alleged role in a covert scheme that facilitated large-fund transfers meant to advance Beijing’s interests in Canada’s 2019 federal election, sources said.