TORONTO — A Chinese-language website named in federal documents at Canada’s Foreign Interference Commission — in connection with a disinformation campaign that targeted Conservative MP Kenny Chiu in the days before the 2021 federal election — has published an anonymous op-ed circulating speculation that Prime Minister Mark Carney is preparing to appoint floor-crossing MP Michael Ma as Canada’s next ambassador to China.
During a January visit to Beijing, Prime Minister Mark Carney announced a sharp cut to tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles, opening the door to 49,000 imports a year and sparking a debate over trade, security and Canada’s auto future.
Brian Kingston, president and chief executive officer of the Canadian Vehicle Manufacturers’ Association, argues the decision risks Canada’s most important trade relationship and undermines domestic manufacturing. Heather Exner-Pirot, senior fellow and director of energy, natural resources and environment at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute, counters that the tradeoff is justified to diversify export markets and support Canada’s agricultural and oil and gas sectors.
OTTAWA — Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre said trade with China is no substitute for trade with the United States and Canada should build on its leverage to secure a tariff-free trade deal with our neighbour to the south.
“Canada’s prosperity and security are inseparable from a stable relationship with the United States,” said Poilievre, during a speech at the Economic Club of Canada in Toronto on Thursday.
Regular readers of LifeSiteNews, and in fact those who read most independent media, most likely are already aware that the People’s Republic of China, through its Communist Chinese Party’s (CCP) many arms, has been meddling in Canada’s elections, as well as democracy in general, for years.
What may not be as well known is that in Canada’s smallest province, the picturesque Prince Edward Island (PEI), the CCP has been accused of using Buddhist monasteries as money laundering fronts to the tune of half a billion dollars.
OTTAWA — In the wake of a groundbreaking Jamestown Foundation study mapping 2,294 CCP-linked organizations across four Western democracies — and finding that Canada, with 575 such groups, has nearly five times the per-capita penetration rate of the United States — experts including a former Chinese spy who defected to Australia are warning that Canada has become Beijing’s prototype for the kind of subversion that, in CCP doctrine, precedes kinetic warfare.
Conservative MP and public safety critic Frank Caputo says he will keep asking the federal government to release its agreement with China on law enforcement cooperation until it discloses the document that so far has been kept confidential to the public.
Caputo sent a letter to Public Safety Minister Gary Anandasangaree on Feb. 9, requesting a copy of the memorandum of understanding (MOU) on cooperation in combating crimes between the RCMP and China’s ministry of public security, which Ottawa signed during Prime Minister Mark Carney’s visit to China in January.
A truck fire near Merritt. Seventeen tonnes of chemicals in a Maple Ridge mansion. The first Canadian document to name the Chinese syndicate supplying BC’s superlabs — and American streets.
VANCOUVER — In November 2023, a 26-foot rental truck caught fire on Highway 97C in British Columbia’s remote Nicola Valley, roughly midway between Merritt and West Kelowna. The truck was carrying a large cargo of hazardous chemicals — ethanol, formamide, lead acetate, mercuric acetate — which ignited, sending towers of black smoke over a stretch of open grassland and folded blue hills, on a road that runs northeast to Falkland.
As Canada looks to diversify its trade partners, it can’t be “naive” in dealing with the Chinese regime, which is a leading perpetrator of transnational repression, researchers behind a new report say.
The Feb. 17 report by the Montreal Institute for Global Security (MIGS) says the issue of transnational repression is a “systemic threat” affecting thousands of people across the country and undermining Canada’s security, democracy, and sovereignty.
Weeks after Ottawa announced that it would allow a limited number of Chinese-made vehicles into the Canadian market, some have warned that the move puts data privacy at risk. But that might not be a significant turn-off for consumers who are in the market for a new car.
While roaming the Canadian International AutoShow on Friday, Dianne Dougall and Pat Shephard — who were scouting for a new EV to replace their Tesla — said that a Chinese-made EVs would “absolutely” interest them.
Privacy wouldn’t pose any more of a concern than any other connected vehicle, they said.
Given Carney’s policies will likely devastate domestic ICE vehicle manufacturing do you think it’s possible some Canadians may vandalize ChiCom EV’s?
Gee I hope not for the sake of our Quisling 5th Columnists.
Mark Carney’s deal to allow Chinese electric vehicles to enter Canada with a low tariff rate will make trade talks with the U.S. tougher, the Canadian Vehicle Manufacturers’ Association says.
Brian Kingston, the organization’s chief executive officer representing Canadian auto plants of the Detroit-based General Motors, Stellantis and Ford, said the Prime Minister’s decision last month to remove the 100% tariff on EVs and replace it with a 6.1% most-favoured-nation rate “further complicates” trade talks later this year.
Lynd’s warning comes just a month after Prime Minister Mark Carney signed a new ‘strategic partnership’ with China
OTTAWA — While Russia remains a military threat in the Arctic, Canada’s security officials told a House of Commons committee this week that they remain primarily focused on China’s threats to economic security in the North.
“Russia has a tremendous interest and focus in the Arctic,” Paul Lynd, assistant director at the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS), told the foreign affairs committee on Thursday. “However, they are of less concern than, say, the activities of China and other hostile state actors at this time.”
OTTAWA — Ten Hong Kong diaspora organizations—spanning Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, and Europe—have issued an extraordinary open letter to the Government of Canada expressing “deep fear and anxiety” over Mark Carney’s deal on law enforcement cooperation signed between the RCMP and the Ministry of Public Security of the People’s Republic of China.
As part of his trip to Beijing last month, Prime Minister Mark Carney met with Zhao Leji, the third-ranking member of the 20th Chinese Communist Party Politburo and chair of the standing committee of the National People’s Congress.
The readout that emerged from the meeting said they talked about the importance of ongoing parliamentary exchanges and “opportunities for enhanced understanding and communication” between the two countries.
Beijing’s Hidden Army: How 2,294 United Front Cells Advance China’s Interests in Four Leading Democracies
WASHINGTON/OTTAWA – A groundbreaking study has mapped 2,294 organizations with proven links to the Chinese Communist Party’s “united front” influence apparatus across the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and Germany—with Canada exhibiting nearly five times the per-capita penetration rate of the U.S. and the highest density of CCP-linked organizations among all four democracies.
“The question is no longer whether this is happening. The question is whether Canada is prepared to respond with the seriousness that the evidence demands.”—Christopher Coates
MLI’s Director of Foreign Policy, National Defence, and National Security, Christopher Coates, speaks… pic.twitter.com/uFTbjKMEaF
— Macdonald-Laurier Institute (@MLInstitute) February 11, 2026
OTTAWA/TORONTO — In this episode, I catch up with columnist Brian Lilley to unpack Prime Minister Mark Carney’s emerging trade and cooperation agenda with the People’s Republic of China — and why I argue these agreements could accelerate Canada’s decline on multiple fronts.
Before we get into Ottawa’s electric vehicle deal — which I argue risks introducing foreign surveillance platforms onto Canadian roads while aggravating our most important trade partner, the United States — we step back and ask: what is Carney really trying to accomplish?
