Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre on Tuesday drew public attention to a report that shows Mark Carney in October, while chair of Brookfield Asset Management, brokered a deal with Chinese bankers.
A month prior to Carney’s trip to China, then-Prime Minister Justin Trudeau made him chair of the Liberals’ Task Force on Economic Growth.
Chinese researchers have developed a compact, deep-sea device capable of severing even the most fortified underwater cables.
The development raises concerns that Beijing could target critical communication and power lines, especially in the event of a Chinese invasion of Taiwan.
The tool can slice armoured cables at depths of up to 4,000 metres (13,123 feet), which is twice the maximum operational range of existing subsea communication infrastructure, according to an academic paper seen by the South China Morning Post.
China ‘ready to move forward’ in relations with Canada, envoy says
China’s ambassador says his country is open to negotiating a free-trade agreement with Ottawa and co-operating on a research station in the Arctic – extending an invitation to repair strained ties as Canada’s relations with the United States worsen.
However, Wang Di, Beijing’s envoy to Canada, says Ottawa would have to remove restrictions placed on Chinese investment in recent years.
Chinese tariffs on $3.7 billion of Canadian agricultural goods and food products took effect on March 20, several months after Canada imposed tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles (EVs) and metals.
The Chinese tariffs were implemented shortly after midnight, imposing a 100 percent levy on Canadian imports of canola oil, oil cakes, and peas, along with a 25 percent tax on pork and seafood products.
Canada’s trade war with the United States has some economists pondering whether the federal government should ease or lift its 100 per cent tariff on Chinese electric vehicles, a move some say could spur EV purchases and deliver a blow to Elon Musk’s Tesla.
Automakers, however, say the tariffs are critical to protecting this country’s nascent EV industry.
Canada followed the U.S. in slapping the tariffs on Chinese EVs last fall, while also putting a 25 per cent surtax on imports of steel and aluminum products from China.
Tell me Brookfield and Canada’s China class aren’t salivating.
“The upside is a likely invasion by the USA.”
Melbourne residents have been sent a letter in the style of a police appeal as Beijing hunts for Kevin Lam, a pro-democracy Hong Kong lawyer who fled to the city
Kevin Yam was wanted on suspicion of “a range of national security-related offences”, the anonymous letter read.
The letter in the style of a police appeal was sent to residents in the suburbs of Melbourne, seeking the whereabouts of a dissident Hong Kong lawyer living in their midst.
“A reward of one million Hong Kong dollars is being offered by Hong Kong Police to any member of the public who can provide information on this wanted person and the related crime,” it added.
Canada started a trade war with China, yet few in Ottawa seem willing to acknowledge the consequences.
Unlike the United States, which often imposes tariffs as a bargaining chip only to later negotiate, China takes a far more calculated and punitive approach. When Beijing retaliates, it targets industries with economic and symbolic significance, ensuring maximum pressure on its adversary.
The federal government says it “strongly condemns” the execution of multiple Canadians in China earlier this year over what Beijing says were “drug-related crimes.”
A Global Affairs Canada spokesperson confirmed the executions took place but did not say how many Canadians were put to death.
By flooding TikTok with religious messages, China could be baiting a backlash. Progressives react with hostility, attacking Christianity as a dangerous ideology.
Christianity may be fading in America, but in 2024, it helped put Donald Trump back in the White House. Evangelicals, Catholics, and other Christian voters backed him in even greater numbers than before.
While Christianity is repressed at home, the CCP has weaponized religion for its own purposes abroad.
This fact, I suggest, is not lost on the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).
Canada has walked itself into an unnecessary trade war with the United States’ biggest geopolitical rival, China.
The consequences are clear: new retaliatory tariffs from China are directly targeting our farmers, affecting over $3-billion worth of agrifood commodities and products.
These measures are a direct response to Canada’s decision to impose a 100 per cent tariff on Chinese electric vehicles in October, a move designed to align with U.S. trade policy and shield the North American auto sector from low-cost competition.
h/t patthedog
OTTAWA, Canada — A review of corporate documents reveals that Brookfield—the influential $900 billion Canadian investment fund from which Liberal Prime Minister-to-be Mark Carney stepped away from in order to replace Justin Trudeau as Canada’s leader—maintains over $3 billion in politically sensitive investments with Chinese state-linked real estate and energy companies, along with a substantial offshore banking presence. One of its major real estate ventures, a $750 million entry into high-end Shanghai commercial property in 2013, involved a Hong Kong tycoon affiliated with the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC)—which the CIA labels a central “united front” entity of Beijing.
Carney will ensure Canada remains a CCP branch plant.
h/t DM
There’s such a thing as cutting off your nose to spite your face, and the tariff war between Canada and the US is starting to look like a prime example.
On Monday, Ontario Premier Doug Ford announced a 25 percent surcharge on electricity exports to the US, affecting an estimated 1.5 million households and businesses in New York, Michigan, and Minnesota.
Trump responded with all-caps outrage, raising the March 12 tariff on steel and aluminum imports from Canada from 25 to 50 percent — a move that would be devastating for Ontario’s auto sector. How, the President asked, could Canada stoop so low as to use electricity — a resource that impacts the daily lives of innocent people — as a bargaining chip and a threat?
A former senior Facebook executive has told the BBC how the social media giant worked “hand in glove” with the Chinese government on potential ways of allowing Beijing to censor and control content in China.
Sarah Wynn-Williams – a former global public policy director – says in return for gaining access to the Chinese market of hundreds of millions of users, Facebook’s founder, Mark Zuckerberg, considered agreeing to hiding posts that were going viral, until they could be checked by the Chinese authorities.
Drug cartels are using Canada’s trade system to launder the proceeds of drug trafficking, according to an internal police intelligence report obtained by the Investigative Journalism Foundation.
The 2022 assessment from the RCMP’s organized crime division says that “cartel drug trafficking” accounts for most of the money being laundered in Canada through trade, according to the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA).
VANCOUVER — Shocking new details are emerging about a major Chinese organized crime suspect who met privately with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, according to a police source who confirmed recent reporting from The Globe and Mail. The individual, Paul King Jin, is allegedly implicated in money laundering operations spanning the Western Hemisphere and has been a target of multiple failed major investigations in British Columbia. These investigations sought to unravel the complex interrelations of underground casinos and real estate investment, fentanyl and methamphetamine trafficking, and financial crimes that allegedly funnel drug proceeds from diaspora community underground banks throughout North America and Latin America, with connections to Chinese and Hong Kong financial institutions.
