OTTAWA — Canada’s Foreign Minister Melanie Joly told her Chinese counterpart Qin Gang on the sidelines of the G20 summit in New Delhi that Canada will never tolerate any form of foreign interference in its internal affairs, according to a statement from Joly on Friday.
Problem solved.
We don’t need a public inquiry into foreign interference in Canadian elections
… The interference that should concern us is not something that happens to Canadian democracy, but rather the kind that happens with the collaboration of certain of its domestic participants.
The collaboration may be passive – winking at or acquiescing in foreign interference, rather than taking action against it. Or it may be active: taking orders, or receiving benefits, from foreign actors.
In the present crisis, we have been given plenty of evidence of both, thanks to a series of extraordinary intelligence leaks.
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 United States is sounding out close allies about the possibility of imposing new sanctions on China if Beijing provides military support to Russia for its war in Ukraine, according to four U.S. officials and other sources.
The consultations, which are still at a preliminary stage, are intended to drum up support from a range of countries, especially those in the wealthy Group of 7 (G7), to coordinate support for any possible restrictions.
I question the assumption that CSIS is acting alone, maybe it isn’t involved at all.
Like Ardern & Sturgeon Justin and the Liberal party are in China’s thrall and likely perceived as a security threat.
Who knows how leaky those 3 have been?
The US needs allies, so maybe it’s taking steps to ensure the Sinophiles like Trudeau, Adhern and Sturgeon are removed.
The NordStream pipelines didn’t commit suicide you know.
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.
Most Western democracies, but especially Canada, passionately advocate climate policies that are weakening their collective ability to compete with an aggressive and antagonistic communist China. The green agenda helps China several ways: It saps the West’s economic prosperity and undermines its energy independence, while bolstering China’s economy and strengthening its national security, thereby advancing President Xi Jinping’s geopolitical ambitions.
OTTAWA — Opposition parties are set to propose a motion Wednesday calling on the Trudeau government to establish a public inquiry into foreign interference in recent federal elections, the National Post has learned.
Several media reports over the last few weeks, citing government intelligence sources, have suggested there was a dedicated effort by the Chinese government to interfere in the 2019 and 2021 federal elections.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s reaction to news reports that China’s Communist regime has meddled in the last three Canadian elections (2019 and 2021, in particular) reminds me of his reaction to reports that he bullied former Justice Minister Jody Wilson-Raybould during the SNC-Lavalin scandal.
If China’s goal when it interfered in the last general election was to reduce public trust in Canadian democracy, increase polarization and weaken confidence in our political leaders, Beijing must be absolutely bloody delighted with the results.
… What we don’t know is the extent of the Liberal Party of Canada’s collusion with that intervention, if there was any at all. One security source suggested to me that the Liberals were “co-conspirators” in this affair and that is where any further investigation must look.
I suspect the Liberal party turned a blind eye at the very least.
It is genuinely embarrassing that Canada has been made a Banana Republic by Junior and his handlers.
Trudeau Foundation returning $200K to Beijing-linked donor
The Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation is returning a donation worth thousands of dollars made by an adviser to the Chinese government.
In 2016, Zhang Bin, a wealthy Chinese businessman and adviser to the Chinese government, made a donation to the foundation worth $200,000.
A story published by the Globe and Mail on Tuesday suggests that Canadian security officials linked that donation back to the Chinese government.
Late and lame Junior, it changes nothing you’re still a turncoat.
