Canada’s Corrupt Liberal Government

There were similarities to the departures of New Zealand’s Jacinda Ardern and Scotland’s Nicola Sturgeon — both stressed the toll of leadership, the time away from family and the human cost.

What they didn’t say was that they were both up against it politically. Polls suggested Ardern would lose the next election and the U.K.’s Supreme Court had ruled that Sturgeon’s Scottish Nationalist Party did not have the power to hold another independence vote unilaterally.

Could Justin Trudeau turn a coincidence into a trend?

Justin Trudeau wants Canadians to know they can have confidence in our democracy and institutions despite claims of election interference by China.

Trudeau turned down a call for public inquiry again Friday, the day after a Commons committee voted in favour of an inquiry.

“I would put the threat level at about eight out of 10. That’s mainly because the Chinese authorities are absolutely determined to achieve their goals, no matter what people think. I’m particularly concerned about their willingness to use almost any method to succeed.”

It was May 3, 2021, at a meeting of the House of Commons special committee on Canada-China relations, and Richard Fadden, former director of CSIS, had been asked by Conservative MP Pierre Paul-Hus how he would rate the threat posed by China to Canada’s economy, national security and defence.

Four overseas Chinese police stations reported to be functioning in various locations across Canada have now “ceased” operations, the RCMP says.

The RCMP’s deputy commissioner of federal policing Michael Duheme appeared before the House of Commons Standing Committee on Procedure and House Affairs on March 2, where he was asked by Conservative MP Raquel Dancho about overseas Chinese police stations reported to be functioning in different locations in Canada.

The latest intelligence leaks about China’s influence operations in Canada are part of a trend that goes back at least three decades, though it has accelerated in recent years.

As early as the 1990s, a joint report by the RCMP and the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) was leaked to the media, warning about Beijing’s operatives and criminal gangs becoming entrenched in various Canadian sectors, but the authorities dismissed those concerns. Decades later, drug operations and money laundering became the subject of a B.C. public inquiry.

Lucki picked the right time to skip.

The head of Canada’s spy service says an investigation is under way to find the leakers of highly classified information on Chinese election interference, and suggested the whistleblowers may have been frustrated with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s handling of Beijing’s activities in the democratic process.

Appearing before a Commons committee investigating Chinese interference, David Vigneault, director of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, declined to answer questions about whether the government ignored warnings of China’s influence operations in the 2019 and 2021 elections.

FEARLESS SPECULATION: The leakers will never be caught because they aren’t CSIS.

Or some tiny, ineffectual statelet whose name we scarcely know having a bit of geopolitical fun.

It was the cruel, duplicitous, secretive, dictatorship of Communist China — of all the great powers of the world, the cruellest, the most duplicitous. According to the solid reporting of the Globe and Mail and Global news, Canadians know that the government of Communist China sought to leverage the Canadian election to favour the Trudeau Liberals.

With public trust evaporating, an arm’s-length inquiry into foreign interference in Canadian elections might be the only thing that could save the integrity of our electoral system and Justin Trudeau’s political skin.

Such an inquiry could help protect future elections from outside interference. For the Prime Minister, it could smother the political fire over his passivity in the face of Chinese efforts to influence the 2021 vote.

There is something about this affair that seems to bother Mr. Trudeau in a way most things don’t. His responses to questions about electoral interference have taken the form of ad hominem attacks against the press and those who are leaking information to it.

Canada’s democracy is under attack. Here’s where the threats are coming from

OTTAWA—Canada’s federal election in 2021 saw a “surge” in disruptive behaviour not just by foreign players, but by domestic actors too, a new report has concluded.

Morris Rosenberg, a former senior civil servant, reviewed the way Canada monitored interference during the last election and he is urging the government to expand when legal authorities track and disclose interference to better cover the months before an election campaign actually begins.

That guy who threw some Pebbles is way worser than Justin and the LPC being ChiCom assets according to The Star.

Whatever happened in 2019 and 2021, China has succeeded in starting a political frenzy

… There is certainly a need for seriousness at this moment. Because whatever China tried to do, it has succeeded in triggering a political and media feeding frenzy that threatens to do some real damage to Canadian democracy, regardless of what the truth might be.

Where would we be without the steady hand of the CBC? Why we’d be speaking mandarin!

Diversity, we are told monotonously, is what unites us in Canada. And it is good up to a point, indeed vital. But a society that is not united around certain principles, for instance that foreign tyrants subverting our elections is intolerable, will neither survive nor deserve to. So are we?

I see an ominous divide here. On one side are those, generally not fans of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who think his efforts to shrug off very specific intelligence agency warnings are failing before our very eyes. And on the other are those, including many Liberal partisans, who dismiss, mock, and even smear these warnings as racist.