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.
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.
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.
Prime Minister Trudeau recently questioned the viability of exporting liquified natural gas from Canada’s East Coast to Europe, saying there has “never been a strong business case” for such projects — even as natural gas prices soared in a Europe weaning itself from Russian supplies. Trudeau’s background is in teaching, not business, so I doubt he knows much about evaluating business cases. But we citizens can discern the business model he evidently favours based on how his government has operated for the last seven years.
Conservative MPs asked during question period in the House of Commons Friday if Prime Minister Justin Trudeau informed Elections Canada after he was briefed by intelligence officers in January that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) covertly funded 11 candidates in the 2019 federal election.
“The prime minister had a choice: He could report this illegal activity to Elections Canada so that they could investigate or he could cover it up. What choice did the prime minister make?” asked Conservative MP Michael Cooper on Nov. 18.
Trudeau is continuing his trip to Southeast Asia and wasn’t in the House to respond, nor was Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino, but his parliamentary secretary Pam Damoff said the alleged Chinese funding of candidates “never ever compromised” Canada’s election process.
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.
Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland told a secret cabinet meeting that Canadians with bank accounts frozen under the Emergencies Act should be denied their money unless they first reported to police. “Banks were pleased,” said confidential minutes.
“Minister of finance reported on a conversation she had with chief executive officers at the major banks,” said minutes of the Monday, February 21 meeting. “Banks were pleased that the government was working on a plan that would see individuals with their bank accounts frozen report to police prior to the bank to have their accounts unfrozen.”
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.
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.
The price of groceries rose 11 per cent year over year, a drop from the 41-year high of 11.4 per cent seen in September. That’s the 11th straight month grocery inflation has been higher than the overall “headline” number.
Gasoline prices rose 17.8 per cent compared to a year ago.
Wages continued to grow at a slower rate than inflation, rising 5.6 per cent in the last year.
Think house prices are too high? The rental market is even worse — with no relief in sight
According to data from rental accommodation website Rentals.ca and analyzed by data firm Urbanation, the average rent in October across Canada was $1,976. That’s an increase of 11.9 per cent, well ahead of Canada’s inflation rate of 6.9 per cent.
The increases aren’t even across the country, either, as Atlantic Canada has seen rents rise at the eye-watering pace of 32.2 per cent in the past year. Ontario, British Columbia and Alberta have seen increases of 17.7 per cent, 15.1 per cent and 13.2 per cent, respectively.
Conservative MP Michael Chong is calling on the Liberal government to identify the 11 candidates who allegedly received funding from the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in the 2019 federal election.
“It is clear that Beijing interfered in last year’s 2021 election. Beijing’s ambassador to Canada commented critically and publicly during that election campaign and Beijing spread disinformation through proxies on Chinese-language social media platforms,” Chong, who is the shadow minister for foreign affairs, said in Parliament on Nov. 14.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau repeated the government’s intention to stiffen regulations related to online hate at the Business 20 (B20) Summit in Bali on Monday, saying that online “harassment and violence” needs to be stopped while free speech is safeguarded.
Speaking to business leaders about technological advancements during the summit in the Indonesian province, Trudeau said Canada “is leading on the responsible development and use of artificial intelligence,” before adding that the federal government will be introducing “major legislative reforms” to strengthen children’s privacy protection.
RCMP have laid the first economic-espionage charge in Canadian history against a researcher in Quebec who is accused of obtaining trade secrets for the benefit of China.
Yuesheng Wang, 35, faces four criminal charges involving an alleged conspiracy to spy on his employer. He has spent six years working for Hydro-Québec, which said in a statement that he was doing research into battery materials for the utility’s Centre of Excellence in Transportation Electrification and Energy Storage.
I’m sure Justin will allow him to move back to China like he did for the Winnipeg Germ Lab spy’s.
… Retired Lt.-Gen. Michel Maisonneuve, accepting a top defence award Nov. 9 in Ottawa, also took a swipe at leaders who he claimed divide rather than unite. While not specifically naming Prime Minister Justin Trudeau or Hillary Clinton, Maisonneuve said “can you imagine a military leader labelling half of his command as deplorables, fringe radicals and less-thans and then expect them to fight as one?”
Good for them.
You can read the report here and the brief here.
This contradicts the bullshit polls put out by our scumbag corporate class suggesting Canadians just love the notion we need 100 million immigrants.
They lie because they are evil.
