CSIS uncovered Chinese plan to donate to Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation

China appears to have targeted Justin Trudeau in a foreign influence operation after he became Liberal Leader in 2013, according to a national security source who said Beijing’s plan involved donating a significant sum of money to the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation.

The source said the Canadian Security Intelligence Service captured a conversation in 2014 between an unnamed commercial attaché at one of China’s consulates in Canada and billionaire Zhang Bin, a political adviser to the government in Beijing and a senior official in China’s network of state promoters around the world.

Lackey picked to write report on Chinese election interference ran Trudeau Foundation when big donations came in from China

Everyone suspected the ChiCom funding but no one in the MSM seemed to care much about it.

Trudeau has to go. It is or should be plainly evident to all that Canada has a China Class problem. The CCP has bought its way deep into Canadian institutions to the point that our mainstream political parties, yes all of them, are likely as ChiCom riddled as the Liberal party.

The likes of Dominic Barton and John McCallum are proof that the rot is well connected and well placed.

And haven’t you wondered why Canada is given the cold shoulder by our 5 Eyes allies?

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John Ivison: China’s election interference could devour Trudeau and his party

In common with many others, I have always thought Justin Trudeau’s receptiveness to China was down to naivete.

But, unless he is more transparent about the Liberal party’s dealings with Beijing in the last two elections, it looks like his sympathies were at least in part driven by partisan considerations.

There was an air of desperation in his reaction to media questions on the foreign interference story on Monday, as he maintained the line that the media reporting has been false, and that even discussing the issues is damaging to Canadian democracy.

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Trudeau denies report that Liberals told to drop candidate Han Dong over China ties

Justin Trudeau and Han Job Dong

OTTAWA – Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Monday denied a media report from last week saying his office had been warned by Canada’s spy agency to drop a Liberal candidate, who is now a member of parliament, because he had Beijing’s support.

The Chinese government preferred Han Dong, a Chinese-Canadian, over another Chinese Canadian Liberal, who was passed over in favour of Han, said Global News, citing anonymous security sources in a story posted online.

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Realism on China

It was impossible to miss — a giant white balloon with a massive solar array and a yet-to-be-publicly-disclosed sensor package flying over some of America’s most sensitive military sites. In the time since China’s spy balloon traversed Alaska, Canada and the continental United States, details surrounding the surveillance overflight are murky at best as the Biden Administration has provided confused, conflicted and muddled statements to Americans and even Congress.

What is clear is that, intentionally or not, China has shown America’s need to get serious about the threat posed by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and its expansionist global aims.

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Liberal MP rejects ‘irresponsible’ allegation that China helped him get elected

OTTAWA—A backbench Liberal MP from Toronto is rejecting what he calls “inaccurate and irresponsible” allegations that China helped him get elected as part of a campaign of interference in Canadian democracy.

“I strongly reject the insinuations in media reporting that allege I have played a role in offshore interference in these processes and will defend vigorously against such inaccurate and irresponsible claims,” Han Dong wrote in a statement posted on social media.

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Anthony Furey: Beijing’s Election Interference Must Be Taken Seriously

There can be a tendency among the public to write off political scandals as nothing more than partisan infighting, and it’s often an understandable tendency.

These days politicians and their proxies turn every little misstep made by their opponents into the biggest of dramas, demanding inquiries and resignations for things that don’t even register in the minds of the public. Sometimes the noise that comes from political circles probably seems to people as just that, noise.

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Privy Council says a report assessing work of foreign interference panel sent to PMO

The Privy Council Office says an assessment of the work done by a panel tasked with flagging incidents of foreign interference during the 2021 federal election is now complete and has been sent to the Prime Minister’s Office and the National Security and Intelligence Committee of Parliamentarians.

OTTAWA – An assessment of the work done by a panel tasked with flagging incidents of foreign interference during the 2021 federal election is now complete and has been sent to the Prime Minister’s Office and the National Security and Intelligence Committee of Parliamentarians, the Privy Council Office has confirmed.

A Critical Election Incident Public Protocol created to monitor and report threats during the 2019 and 2021 elections is required to publish a post-election assessment of its work.

The 2019 evaluation came about seven months after the campaign held that year, but the 2021 report is still not available more than a year after Canadians went to the polls.

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Canada needs to take Chinese threat seriously

This past week, disturbing revelations were made painstakingly clear to Canadians: the People’s Republic of China and its intelligence apparatus threaten our nation’s security and our democracy.

On the evidence, the authoritarian dictatorship in Beijing has interfered in our elections to the benefit of Trudeau’s Liberals and the detriment of Canada’s democratic foundations. While their tactics demonstrate a blatant disrespect for our way of life, they also show our inability to respond effectively.

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RCMP probing reports of ‘heinous’ war crimes in Ukraine … but has no time for those Communist China – Liberal Party conspiracy theories!

The RCMP says it is investigating serious allegations of war crimes and crimes against humanity stemming from Russia’s war on Ukraine — but it warns that getting cases to the prosecution stage could take years.

“We really try to manage expectations, to say this may be quite a process to investigate something,” said Cpl. Kate Walaszczyk, an investigator with the RCMP’s Ukraine war crimes unit.

“It can take quite some time.”


Justin Balks and China Walks…

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Canada needs an inquiry into Chinese election interference: ex-spymaster

 

Any strong words Trudeau may mouth about China are to be taken with a very large grain of salt.

Canada needs a public inquiry into allegations of Chinese election interference, Canada former spymaster says.

Speaking in an interview with The West Block‘s Mercedes Stephenson, airing Sunday, Richard Fadden, the former head of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service and former national security advisor to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, said he “can’t see any compelling reason not to” hold a public inquiry.

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Justin Trudeau is digging a deeper hole for himself on Chinese meddling in elections

Justin Trudeau keeps digging himself a deeper hole on the issue of Chinese meddling in Canadian elections.

When troubling reports came out in November, he first said it was nothing new. Then he said he hadn’t actually been briefed that any candidates may have been helped or harmed by Beijing. Lately he’s been arguing we shouldn’t worry much because China didn’t actually affect the outcome of our elections.

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Liberals ignored CSIS warning on 2019 candidate accused in Chinese interference probe: sources

Three weeks before Canada’s 2019 federal election, national security officials allegedly gave an urgent, classified briefing to senior aides from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s office, warning them that one of their candidates was part of a Chinese foreign interference network.

According to sources, the candidate in question was Han Dong, then a former Ontario MPP whom Canada Security Intelligence Service had started tracking in June of that year.


Good reporting, pity nothing will come of it as it touches all members of the UNIPARTY.

h/t k1962

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Trudeau says he will not call public inquiry into Chinese electoral interference

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is ruling out a public inquiry to examine China’s interference in Canada’s democracy and once again insisted the influence activities of Chinese diplomats and their proxies did not affect the outcome of the 2019 and 2020 elections.

Speaking to reporters in Toronto marking the anniversary of Russia’s all-out military assault on Ukraine, Mr. Trudeau said he is satisfied with hearings now being conducted by a parliamentary committee into the past two election campaigns.


Trudeau won’t catch much flak at all for failing to call an inquiry, thank Poilievre for that.

Poilievre sucked the air out of the ChicCom interference story with his boneheaded comments on Christine Anderson.

With those comments Poilievre told his CPC cronies that he doesn’t care about the fears and concerns of average Canadians and that the CPC will continue to support a callous & destructive policy of mass immigration.

By his statement Poilievre also signalled he was a fully pledged member of the UNIPARTY.

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Former chief electoral officer calls for independent inquiry into Chinese interference in Canadian elections

Former chief electoral officer Jean-Pierre Kingsley is calling for an independent inquiry into China’s sophisticated strategy to interfere in the 2019 and 2021 federal elections.

Mr. Kingsley, who served in the post from 1990 to 2007, said it is disturbing that CSIS documents reveal Chinese strategy to influence Canada’s 2021 election and illegal methods to help favoured candidates in the two most recent campaigns.

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