The Enemy Is Already Inside the Gates. Mark Carney Just Opened Them Wider.

The Enemy Is Already Inside the Gates. Mark Carney Just Opened Them Wider.

OTTAWA — When the Chinese consulate in Houston was ordered closed in July 2020, it did not go quietly. Within an hour of being told they had 72 hours to vacate, the staff set the building on fire.

What followed was, in the account of the man who ordered it done, a revelation. “Within two days,” former CIA Director and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told the Canada Strong and Free conference in Ottawa, “we had identified hundreds of Chinese agents operating in the United States, most of which we were unaware of. They started getting tickets to fly out. You could just see the network light up.”

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Human rights advocates sound alarm as court documents reveal extent Chinese police harassed Canadian residents

Human rights advocates sound alarm as court documents reveal extent Chinese police harassed Canadian residents

OTTAWA – Security experts and human rights advocates are sounding the alarm about the renewal of a co-operation agreement between the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and China’s Ministry of Public Security as troubling details surface at a foreign interference trial.

Court documents filed at the trial of alleged double agent William Majcher reveals that at least 25 Canadian residents were targeted by Chinese police under an anti-corruption program, which doubled as a tool of transnational repression. The affidavit shows that the Chinese nationals may have been forced to return to their homeland against their will to face punishment for alleged financial crimes.

Some of them would have faced life imprisonment, or even a death sentence.

h/t Patti Jo

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Despite strained ties, U.S. senator says Canada should be cautious of making deals with China

Despite strained ties, U.S. senator says Canada should be cautious of making deals with China

As Canada prepares to accept more Chinese-made electric vehicles into the country, a U.S. senator is warning that although Canada-U.S. ties are strained, Canadian officials should be cautious when making agreements with China’s government.

“I understand that Canada is looking elsewhere and trying to diversify,” Michigan Democratic Sen. Elissa Slotkin said in an interview on Rosemary Barton Live that aired Sunday morning.

“I think the point that I would make and did make to Canadian leaders is, just because we have become more difficult doesn’t mean the Chinese are always the straightest shooters when it comes to national security,” Slotkin told host Rosemary Barton.

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New York Spy Trial Exposes Beijing’s Blueprint for Embedding Huawei Cloud Linking CCP Police Stations From New York to Toronto to Fujian Secret Police

New York Spy Trial Exposes Beijing’s Blueprint for Embedding Huawei Cloud Linking CCP Police Stations From New York to Toronto to Fujian Secret Police

NEW YORK — A six-story glass-clad building in Manhattan’s Chinatown — wedged between a hotel, a spicy Fuzhou noodle shop and a business billed as a high-end private spa — became this week the unlikely center of one of the most revealing federal trials yet of how Beijing’s security apparatus has allegedly embedded itself inside American society.

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Uyghur Forced Labor Imports From China To Canada Must Be Blocked

Uyghur Forced Labor Imports From China To Canada Must Be Blocked

WASHINGTON — For nearly four decades, I have advocated for justice and human rights for the Uyghur people in the face of the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) oppression. Its record of gross human rights violations is well documented, despite an extensive propaganda apparatus designed to obscure it. China’s use of economic leverage to expand its political influence is also widely recognized, with overt examples across the globe. What is often less visible is the breadth and depth of what the CCP is willing to do, and the lengths it will go, to sustain control and project power.

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Former Vancouver Mayor Says Premier Eby Aware of RCMP Investigation Into B.C. Cabinet Minister Over Alleged Chinese Government Collaboration

Former Vancouver Mayor Says Premier Eby Aware of RCMP Investigation Into B.C. Cabinet Minister Over Alleged Chinese Government Collaboration

VANCOUVER — Kennedy Stewart, the former mayor of Vancouver, said in a broadcast interview Monday that British Columbia Premier David Eby is aware of an active RCMP investigation into a sitting cabinet minister suspected of collaborating with the Chinese government — and that senior NDP officials have been alerted to the matter with no apparent action taken.

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Chinese consulate met Vancouver official in bid to stop event critical of communist rule

Chinese consulate met Vancouver official in bid to stop event critical of communist rule

Chinese consular officials met with a Vancouver city hall employee last month and urged her to cancel an arts event that highlighted communist party repression, sources told Global News.

At the meeting, representatives of China’s consulate told a staff member of the city’s civic theatres branch that they wanted a series of performances by the Shen Yun dance group to be stopped, the sources said.

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Auto giants warn China EV quota will gut Canadian industry and jobs

Auto giants warn China EV quota will gut Canadian industry and jobs

Canada’s auto sector is raising alarm bells over Ottawa’s decision to open the door to Chinese electric vehicles, warning the move could undercut domestic manufacturing and cost jobs.

Blacklock’s Reporter says executives from General Motors Canada told MPs that new federal concessions allowing thousands of low-tariff Chinese electric vehicles into the country risk weakening Canada’s industrial base and “hollowing out” its skilled workforce.


We were likely to lost auto manufacturing anyway, this will accelerate it.

They certainly didn’t waste any time …

Chinese EVs were spotted in Toronto, here’s what you need to know ahead of their Canadian release

h/t Mauser (Incognito)

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GOLDSTEIN: China – our ‘strategic partner’ and greatest security threat

GOLDSTEIN: China – our ‘strategic partner’ and greatest security threat

It’s alarming that Prime Minister Mark Carney, citing China as a “strategic partner,” has agreed to a secret deal on co-operating with Chinese police, given the highly controversial nature of these agreements in the past.

Since the details can’t be disclosed without China’s permission, all we know about it is the brief description the Prime Minister’s Office released when Carney announced his EV-canola deal with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing in January.

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This Researcher Thinks Canada Is an Easy Target for the CCP

This Researcher Thinks Canada Is an Easy Target for the CCP

As a NATO member and U.S. ally, Canada is a natural target for Beijing’s overseas influence operations, according to Peter Mattis, China expert and president of the U.S.-based think tank The Jamestown Foundation.

However, Canada is particularly vulnerable, Matti says, as the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) views it as an easy target for several reasons.

One factor is a lack of strong controls against CCP interference in Canada, Mattis said in an interview with Jan Jekielek, senior editor and host of The Epoch Times’ “American Thought Leaders.”

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Howard Lutnick’s right. Canada needs to limit EV trade with China

Howard Lutnick’s right. Canada needs to limit EV trade with China

Was Prime Minister Mark Carney “nuts” to make a deal to import electric vehicles from China? That’s what Howard Lutnick says. “Carney has a problem with us,” the U.S. Commerce Secretary told a conference audience April 17. “He gets on a plane and he goes to China. Does he think the Chinese economy’s gonna buy his stuff? China is entirely an export-driven economy!”

Lutnick’s style was crude, his attitude abrasive. The deal he trashed was arguably a rational tactic to buy Canada’s canola sector some short-term breathing space. But on the challenges of trading with China, he wasn’t wrong.

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Pacific Mall in Markham is a ‘trade barrier,’ says the U.S. Here’s why — and why that may be changing

Pacific Mall in Markham is a ‘trade barrier,’ says the U.S. Here’s why — and why that may be changing

Andrew Carandang and Jonathan Pan have been coming to Markham’s Pacific Mall for as long as they can remember — but there are still surprises to be had.

“They sell tools here?” Pan said, walking through the mall’s glass-box maze of more than 350 stores and stalls.

Three years ago the lifelong friends brought their online vintage clothing business Legacy Toronto into a physical store here, in what a sign inside brags is the largest indoor Asian mall in North America: “You must see it.”


The Star celebrates counterfeit goods.

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Auto industry warns China EV tariff concession risks Canadian jobs and investment

Auto industry warns China EV tariff concession risks Canadian jobs and investment

Canada’s auto sector is warning that a federal decision to ease tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles could undermine domestic manufacturing and weaken North American supply chains, as executives say the policy puts Canadian jobs at risk.

The concerns were raised at a Commons science committee hearing after cabinet approved a quota allowing up to 49,000 Chinese-made battery electric vehicles into the Canadian market this year at reduced tariff levels, with the cap set to increase by 6.5% annually.

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Parliament’s Ethics Committee Calls on Carney to Sell Brookfield Stakes, Citing Reporting From The Bureau on His China Business Ties and CCP Official Meetings

Parliament’s Ethics Committee Calls on Carney to Sell Brookfield Stakes, Citing Reporting From The Bureau on His China Business Ties and CCP Official Meetings

OTTAWA — A landmark parliamentary ethics report recommends that Prime Minister Mark Carney — and all future prime ministers — be required to sell their investments within 60 days of taking office, while citing this reporter’s testimony on The Bureau‘s reporting into Carney’s China-linked business exposure and high-level Chinese Communist Party official visits.

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‘We have to be very cautious’: Former Tory leader Erin O’Toole’s advice to PM Carney on China

‘We have to be very cautious’: Former Tory leader Erin O’Toole’s advice to PM Carney on China

Former Conservative leader Erin O’Toole is cautioning the prime minister that despite the need to diversify trade, China is not a substitute for the United States.

O’Toole has been tapped to join Prime Minister Mark Carney’s 24-member Canada-U.S. Advisory Committee, unveiled this week as a formal review of the countries’ trilateral trade deal with Mexico fast approaches.

More than a year into a protracted trade war with the United States, meanwhile, Carney is once again emphasizing a shift in the relationship with Canada’s closest neighbour, describing Canada’s ties to the U.S. as a “weakness” in a social media video last Sunday.

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