Ontario judge finds no documentation to support Global News reporting on Han Dong allegations

An Ontario Superior Court judge has found no documented evidence to support allegations made against former Liberal MP Han Dong in a series of Global News stories last year.

The judge made the comments as he rejected an application from Corus Entertainment to throw out Dong’s lawsuit against the news agency, saying it is in the public interest to hear the case.

“The matter of Mr. Dong’s communications with the Chinese are worthy of the freedom of expression of an open court system,” Justice Paul Perell said in his judgment Wednesday.

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Will Canada join the U.S. in a tariff battle against Chinese EV imports?

China crappy electric cars, EV

The Canadian government appears set to push back against the explosive growth in Chinese electric vehicle imports by joining its allies in a tariff battle that risks triggering retaliation from Beijing.

On Thursday, Ontario Premier Doug Ford called on the federal government to “immediately match or exceed U.S. tariffs on Chinese imports, including at least a 100 per cent tariff on Chinese electric vehicles.”

“Taking every advantage of low labour standards and dirty energy, China is flooding the market with artificially cheap electric vehicles. Unless we act fast, we risk Ontario and Canadian jobs,” the premier said in a media statement.

I’m sure Canada’s China class will steer Justin in Beijing’s approved direction.

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Trudeau’s security adviser plays down concealing documents from foreign interference inquiry

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s national security adviser is playing down concerns over the government concealing cabinet documents from the commissioner looking into foreign interference, saying the government has chosen to provide the cabinet confidences it considers “most relevant” to the inquiry.

“So, we shared with the commission, in a very transparent way, things that were relevant, to the point, with them,” she said.

Conservative MP Eric Duncan compared the situation to “a courtroom trial where the accused that’s on the stand gets to choose what evidence the judge gets to see.”

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Chinese Canadian group links two Senators to actions against Canada’s interests

A Chinese Canadian human rights group taking part in Canada’s Foreign Interference Commission (FIC) has linked two Canadian senators to NSICOP’s explosive June 2024 intelligence review.

The submission to Ottawa’s FIC from Chinese Canadian Concern Group points at Senator Yuen Pau Woo, also an intervener with the Commission, and Senator Victor Oh.

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Ontario jobs ‘at risk’ if Canada doesn’t match U.S. tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles: Doug Ford

Premier Doug Ford is calling on the federal government to place a 100 per cent tariff on electric vehicles manufactured in China, warning that failure to do so could put jobs at “risk” in Ontario.

The U.S. announced last month that it planned to place new tariffs of more than 100 per cent on Chinese made electrical vehicles but the Canadian government has not yet indicated whether it plans to follow suit.

In a statement released on Thursday, Ford called on the feds to “immediately match or exceed” the U.S. tariffs on Chinese imports, which will eventually apply to some other goods as well.

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Terry Glavin: A user’s guide to Trudeau’s illicit affair with China’s Communists

In the ordinary course of heated political controversies, Canadians can sort out the issue that’s launching their politicians at one another’s throats. In the “foreign interference” upheaval that has in turns paralyzed, confounded and outraged Canada’s political class in recent days, we’re not even allowed to know what the federal party leaders are arguing about, exactly.

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Chinese ‘underground bankers’ accused of aiding Mexican cartel

The US has accused a Chinese “underground banking” network of helping Mexico’s powerful Sinaloa drugs cartel with money laundering and other crimes.

The Department of Justice (DoJ) has charged 24 people with offences that also include distributing narcotics.

Law enforcement officers have seized about $5m (£4m) in proceeds, as well as guns and hundreds of pounds of cocaine, methamphetamine and ecstasy pills.

The DoJ touted the close co-operation with Mexican and Chinese law enforcement – a message that has been echoed on the Chinese side.

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Trudeau says other may have experienced collusion report differently

Trudeau Says Concerns About Collusion Report Relate to Interpretation, Cites Singh and May Disagreement

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says his government’s concerns with some conclusions of a recent intelligence watchdog report on foreign collusion by parliamentarians are related to interpretation of the information, pointing to differing opinions among other party leaders who have read it in full.

“The government has already highlighted that there are a number of conclusions in the National Security and Intelligence Committee of Parliamentarians [NSICOP] report that we don’t entirely align with,” Mr. Trudeau told reporters in a June 16 press conference in Switzerland where he was attending the Summit on Peace in Ukraine.


Gaslighting little twerp.

Trudeau says Canadians should be ‘wary’ of leaders who say foreign interference hasn’t touched their teams

In an apparent jab at NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says Canadians should be wary of political leaders who say their parties haven’t been compromised by foreign interference.

Last week — after reading the classified, unredacted version of the National Security and Intelligence Committee of Parliamentarians (NSICOP) report — Singh suggested to reporters that he didn’t have to worry about members of his caucus.

In an interview with CBC’s Power & Politics on Monday, Trudeau questioned that assertion.

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China’s 170 Million Spy Balloons and other Venus Fly Traps

The Chinese Communist Party seems to have been buying up America. On July 23, 2023, US Rep. Mile Collins (R-GA) said on the floor of the House of Representatives:

“China owns $870 billion in U.S. Treasuries that finance our debt. And they either own or have a huge portion of the Chicago Stock Exchange, AMC movie theaters, General Electric’s appliance division, General Motors, and Smithfield Foods just to name a few.

“On another alarming note, folks. China owns 384,000 acres of American agricultural land. That’s a 30% increase just since 2019. And on top of that, they own land near an air force base in North Dakota. That’s a clear threat to our national security and that’s what the Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Bill is going to address.”

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Ottawa, Saskatchewan step in to prevent sale of Canadian rare earth metals to Chinese buyer

The federal and Saskatchewan governments are stepping in to prevent Canadian rare earth metals from falling into the hands of a Chinese buyer after facing backlash from critics who alleged that allowing the transaction to proceed was anathema to Canada’s critical minerals policy.

Australia-based Vital Metals Ltd. in December announced it was selling its stockpile of rare earths that were mined at the Nechalacho Project in the Northwest Territories to China’s Shenghe Resources Holding Co.,Ltd.

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As Dictated To The Star By Katie Telford On Behalf Of Xi Jinping …

In Justin Trudeau’s paranoid Ottawa, insiders say treason allegations are being carelessly tossed around

By Justin Ling Contributor

Eighty years ago, cipher clerk Igor Gouzenko walked out of the Soviet embassy in Ottawa with a briefcase full of documents and a plan to defect. When he finally got an audience with the RCMP, he revealed the most extensive espionage and influence campaign Canada had ever seen.

Gouzenko’s defection spurred a series of investigations, a public inquiry, and a media frenzy. Revelations of how Moscow sought to steal secrets and infiltrate Ottawa gripped the nation and woke Ottawa up to new realities of the Cold War.

The gall.

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Suck-Up Singh says Han Dong shouldn’t be allowed back into Liberal caucus

After reading an unredacted report from one of Canada’s intelligence oversight bodies, NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh says he now thinks that Independent MP Han Dong shouldn’t be allowed back into the Liberal caucus.

Last week, the National Security and Intelligence Committee of Parliamentarians (NSICOP), a cross-party committee of MPs and senators with top security clearances, released a heavily blacked-out document alleging, based on intelligence, that some parliamentarians have been “semi-witting or witting” participants in the efforts of foreign states to interfere in Canadian politics.

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TAYLOR: The truth at last… CSIS reveals story of Chinese spies who got away with it

Justin Trudeau Xiangguo Qiu Keding Cheng – Everybody say Xi

Spy novelist John Le Carré established his reputation with 1963’s The Spy Who Came in From the Cold. Set at the height of the Cold War, it describes washed-up British spy Alec Leamas’ attempt to infiltrate East German intelligence as a double agent. It’s a grim tale of hidden identities, uncertain alliances and spymasters prepared to sacrifice their own men in pursuit of bigger game. According to Le Carré — who worked for Britain’s MI6 in Germany while writing the book — the modern world of espionage is unpleasant, unglamourous and devoid of loyalty. Unhappy endings are inevitable.

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Terry Glavin: Trudeau’s Chinese collaboration has been in broad daylight all along

It’s been quite the melodrama.

For two weeks, the inferred conclusions of “treason” on Parliament Hill derived from an 84-page-report that none of us is allowed to read have only heaped fuel on a garbage fire that began with the leaked revelations of intelligence agency whistleblowers going back to November 2022.

The stinking reek of it all should not be expected to subside any time soon. All the parties in the House now seem content with having the matter kicked over to Justice Marie-Josée Hogue’s Foreign Interference Commission. In the short term, if any legislative good comes of the international spectacle Canada’s political class has been making of itself, it will be in the outcome of Bill C-70, the Countering Foreign Interference Act, which completed third reading in the House of Commons on Thursday.

Trudeau is a witting accomplice.

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