Terry Glavin: Why we may have finally reached a tipping point on Chinese interference

“The Chinese community here is frightened by the Chinese government, even though they are in Canada … A lot of Chinese organizations or social groups are very close to the consulate and to the embassy. Why is that? It’s not because they don’t understand the values, or they don’t trust or agree with the values. It’s just because they are so frightened. They know that the Chinese government is so brutal they could do anything.”

If you thought that those words appeared in some news story over the past few days, perhaps in an interview with a Canadian Security and Intelligence Service whistleblower speaking anonymously out of fear of prosecution under the Security of Information Act, you’d have guessed wrong.

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University of Waterloo ends research partnerships with Huawei, amid security concerns over China

They made Justin cry.

Canada’s top-rated research university will end all its research partnerships with Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei, the Star has learned.

“We are disentangling ourselves from this company,” Charmaine Dean, vice-president of research at the University of Waterloo, told the Star.

“We will be completely extricated through various legal mechanisms, exit clauses and a variety of processes. Within a few months, we will be completely extricated from that relationship.”

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Sabrina Maddeaux: Trudeau Foundation so arrogant, it thought it was influencing China

While Prime Minister Justin Trudeau insists he has “absolutely no intersection” with the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation, the nonprofit uncannily mirrors the worst characteristics and impulses of his Liberal government. Chief among them, hubris.

On Tuesday, the foundation’s former president and CEO Morris Rosenberg testified in front of the House of Commons privacy and ethics committee about the now-infamous $200,000 donation it accepted with links to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Rosenberg led the nonprofit at the time and would like MPs and Canadians to write off the controversy as little more than good old-fashioned naivete rather than reckless arrogance.

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China’s Covid whistleblower in Wuhan reportedly freed after three years

A Chinese citizen journalist who disappeared three years ago while reporting on the Wuhan coronavirus lockdown – and was later revealed to have been detained by authorities – has reportedly been released.

Fang Bin was let out of detention on Sunday, according to multiple media reports that cited people close to the family. The reports said he had gone to Beijing, where some of his family live, before being sent back to Wuhan on Monday morning, where he remains under strict supervision.

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When will Trudeau kick out China’s diplomats attacking Canada?

At what point do we start kicking out China’s diplomats for interfering in Canada’s domestic affairs?

Given that the diplomat who was orchestrating efforts to target the family of an MP is still in Canada, still on the government’s list of diplomats, there is nothing China can do that will see the Trudeau government act.

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The great papal cover-up

As readers of this esteemed publication would be aware, in 2018, the Vatican signed a provisional agreement with the Chinese Communist Party on the appointment of Catholic bishops. In doing so, the Vatican recognised the Chinese ‘Patriotic Church’, set up and controlled by the CCP.

Indeed, the late Cardinal Pell, in the ‘Demos’ document attributed to him, stated that under the 2018 secret Vatican-China pact, there had been ‘no public support for the loyal Catholics in China who have been intermittently persecuted for their loyalty to the Papacy for more than 70 years’.

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GOLDSTEIN: Trudeau ignored warning after warning about foreign interference. Why?

Canada’s foreign interference scandal keeps coming back to the same question.

Why did Prime Minister Justin Trudeau create new procedures to detect and report on foreign attacks on our democracy, and then ignore their findings and recommendations?

Trudeau is Beijings Butt Boy.

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Michael Chong Affair: Trudeau Says No One Ever Lets Him See Anything Important

Trudeau says he didn’t know Tory MP’s family was threatened by Beijing

OTTAWA—Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Wednesday he only found out two days ago that a Conservative MP’s family was being targeted by the Chinese government despite CSIS allegedly having a report on the subject that dates back two years.

Trudeau said the information never made its way to his desk, and he’s now issued instructions to Canada’s spy agency to ensure that never happens again.

The Globe and Mail reported Monday that security officials believed in 2021 that Beijing had targeted relatives of Wellington—Halton Hills MP Michael Chong as part of a campaign to influence Canadian politics.


Why is he not jailed?

SHOCKA!Justin Trudeau’s brother denies Trudeau Foundation was involved in foreign interference

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As the spectre of China’s meddling spreads, another MP claims he is a victim

During the 2021 federal election in the downtown Toronto riding of Spadina-Fort York, the young, progressive, ethnically-Chinese candidate seemed a shoo-in for the Liberals.

A rising political star with a history of youth advocacy, a university lecturer, entrepreneur and a reserve officer in the Royal Canadian Navy, Kevin Vuong was an ideal candidate for a party aspiring to better represent today’s Canada.

But it quickly came to an end.

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Former Trudeau Foundation trough hog says engaging with Chinese officials was ‘naïve’

Morris Rosenberg, the former president and CEO of the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation, says in retrospect the embattled charity was naïve to think it would have “soft power” over China when it accepted money in 2016 with ties to the Chinese government.

The former veteran public servant told a parliamentary committee Tuesday night that at the time, there was a belief that engaging with Chinese officials would familiarize them with Canadian governance, rule of law and human rights.

“Was that naïve at the time? In hindsight, probably it was naive,” said Rosenberg.

“We felt we could do more good.”

What gall.

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The alarm on China’s interference is ringing louder

The evidence of China’s interference in Canada’s democracy was already alarming. Now, it’s doubly so, with fresh revelations that Beijing not only meddled with successive federal elections but also attempted to intimidate a sitting MP.

The Globe and Mail previously reported, based on Canadian Security Intelligence Service documents, that Beijing operatives tried to swing some riding outcomes in the 2019 and 2021 federal elections, although no one is saying those efforts changed who formed government.

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Jamie Sarkonak: Trudeau Foundation has deep history of donors with ties to lobbyists

What exactly was going on at the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation when a 2016 donation was made supposedly on behalf of the Chinese government in an alleged attempt to influence the prime minister? A clear answer would be welcome, but the foundation has a long association with donors, and members, who were also trying to gain influence with the Liberal party and the government.

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MP Michael Chong a symbol of how little Trudeau cares about protecting Canadians from Chinese interference

When it comes to Chinese Communist Party (CCP) interference in Canadian affairs, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is running out of runway. Not a week goes by that doesn’t bring fresh revelations about just how badly Canada’s national security has been compromised under his watch.


Trudeau cares only about protecting the grift for Canada’s China Class.

I don’t care if a foreign power is behind Trudeau’s ouster, in fact I wish them success and godspeed in their effort.

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CSIS confirms to MP that he and family were targeted by China

The Canadian Security Intelligence Service on Tuesday confirmed to Conservative MP Michael Chong that he and his family were targeted by the Chinese government after he sponsored a parliamentary motion condemning Beijing’s conduct in Xinjiang as genocide, the MP says.

He said CSIS also confirmed that Zhao Wei, a Chinese diplomat in Canada, was involved.

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China ‘barring thousands of citizens and foreigners from leaving country’

China is increasingly barring people, including foreign executives, from leaving the country, according to a report and research.

Scores of Chinese nationals and foreigners have been ensnared by exit bans, according to the report from the rights group Safeguard Defenders, while a Reuters analysis has found an apparent surge in court cases involving such bans in recent years.

Foreign business lobby groups are voicing concern about the trend, calling it a jarring message as the authorities say the country is open for business after three years of tight Covid-19 restrictions.

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