Canadians are still reeling from the bombshell report on foreign interference released by the National Security and Intelligence Committee of Parliamentarians (NSICOP) on Monday, which confirmed the existence of “troubling intelligence” indicating that multiple MPs are active and self-aware participants in the covert efforts of foreign states to influence Canadian politics.
Former CSIS director Richard Fadden says Canada can’t allow allegations that parliamentarians are colluding with foreign powers to remain unresolved.
He recommends federal party leaders all request classified briefings to see if they can learn the names of those federal politicians that a security watchdog report said are collaborating with foreign governments for their own benefit.
Junior is either personally compromised by the Chicoms or he is guilty of deliberately turning a blind eye to the treason of others so long as those efforts aided his Liberal party.
Either way Trudeau has committed treason IMHO.
OTTAWA — MPs named by top-secret intelligence as aiding foreign interference in Canadian politics continue to go unidentified by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government, despite opposition demands to say publicly who they are.
But at least one constitutional expert says it’s possible — and entirely in line with long-established rules — for certain MPs to simply disclose the names from the floor of the House of Commons.
If the names of senators and MPs suspected of foreign influence were released, they would be ruined, possibly without appropriate proof
It’s a rare thing when political debate in this country changes anyone’s mind. Speeches are not meant to be persuasive; they are delivered to confirm the prejudices of partisans.
Yet, at the parliamentary public safety committee on Thursday, Dominic LeBlanc made a convincing case for not releasing the names of MPs and senators who were named in the redacted National Security and Intelligence Committee of Parliamentarians (NSICOP) report released earlier this week.
The report said that a number of unnamed “semi-witting or witting” MPs and senators helped foreign states to the detriment of Canada’s democracy and national security.
Garbage. The public has a right to know. Let God sort them out.
Treason in Canada?
That allegation leapt off the pages of a recent report from the National Security and Intelligence Committee of Parliamentarians (NSICOP). The worst example cited, with names and details redacted in the published report, concerned a former MP who engaged in communications with a senior official of a foreign intelligence service and tried to arrange a meeting overseas with this official. According to CSIS, confidential information was passed.
There is no other word for it. This is treason.
Canada’s spy chief says that political leaders could take steps to make sure parliamentarians accused of cooperating with foreign governments face consequences, even if they don’t face criminal prosecution.
David Vigneault, the director of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS), suggested to a parliamentary committee Thursday that party leaders could disallow any of their MPs suspected of collusion from running for the party again, or expel them from caucus over the allegations they cooperated with foreign states like China and India.
God forbid they face real consequences for their treason.
The Liberal government’s approach to foreign interference? No transparency, no accountability, and a whole lot of inaction
Wednesday is caucus day on Parliament Hill and this week’s meetings must have been like no other. This time, it seems, the call is coming from inside the house.
Earlier this week, we learned that some Parliamentarians are believed to have been helping hostile foreign actors interfere in Canadian electoral affairs. MPs and Senators appear to have been willingly and knowingly working with foreign governments and actors, most notably China and India, in relationships that can benefit both the parliamentarians and the foreign governments. Information, it is alleged, has been exchanged to benefit the elected member and representatives of the foreign government. In cozy quid pro quo arrangements, vital information shared with a foreign government was supposedly traded for help from agents of that country in mobilizing its diaspora or offering other aid in electoral campaigns.
If you needed a single sentence to show this government is on its last legs, there it is. pic.twitter.com/q7uzyuX3km
— Frank Caputo MP (@FrankCaputoKTC) June 6, 2024
The federal government will not release the names of parliamentarians who this week were accused in a national-security watchdog report of knowingly working with foreign states to meddle in Canadian democracy, Public Safety Minister Dominic LeBlanc said Thursday.
Nope no cover up goin on here …
Liberals blocking access to 1,000-plus documents, says intel-oversight panel reviewing foreign interference
OTTAWA – Two days after publishing an alarming report on foreign interference in Canada, an intelligence agency oversight committee says the federal government is trying to avoid disclosing information by “inappropriately” withholding over a thousand documents.
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre says that Canadians have a right to know the names of the MPs accused in an explosive new intelligence report of “wittingly” working on behalf of foreign state actors.
On Monday, the National Security and Intelligence Committee of Parliamentarians (NSICOP), a cross-party committee of MPs and senators with top security clearances, released a heavily redacted document alleging some parliamentarians have actively helped foreign governments like China and India meddle in Canadian politics.
NSICOP chair says it’s up to the RCMP to probe allegations of foreign interference
The chair of an intelligence review body that released an explosive report earlier this week alleging some Canadian parliamentarians “wittingly” helped foreign state actors says it’s now up to RCMP to decide whether it can pursue charges.
On Monday, the National Security and Intelligence Committee of Parliamentarians (NSICOP), a cross-party committee of MPs and senators with top security clearances, released a long-anticipated report that looked at foreign political interference in Canada.
The heavily redacted document alleges some parliamentarians have actively helped foreign governments like China and India meddle in Canadian politics.
MPs expressed unease Tuesday in the aftermath of the bombshell revelation there are unnamed spies reporting to foreign governments operating within the Canadian elected government.
One unnamed public office holder was suspected of “providing information learned in confidence from the government to a known intelligence officer of a foreign state,” per Blacklock’s Reporter.
Among and between each of the scandalous revelations in the 84-page report the National Security and Intelligence Committee of Parliamentarians released Monday, there is an unmistakable tone of exasperation, frustration, and something even approaching despair.
Scandalous is not too strong a word to describe what the report reveals, which is a state of affairs that calls into question whether the term “foreign interference” gets at the dilemma that has transfixed Canada since November 2022, or whether what this report discloses is evidence of collusion between leading Canadian politicians and hostile foreign powers.
Senior cabinet ministers wouldn’t say Tuesday if the government is prepared to release the names of parliamentarians who are alleged to have conspired with foreign governments and to have consciously shared sensitive information with their agents — conduct that one expert says could amount to treason.
There may still be police investigations into these allegations, the ministers said, and details could eventually be released as part of that process.
OTTAWA — Canada’s deputy prime minister says the finding that some Canadian members of Parliament were “wittingly” helping foreign state actors is “concerning,” but she trusts that law enforcement will do its job.
Chrystia Freeland’s comments come after a committee of MPs and senators released a report Monday that said intelligence shows foreign actors worked to foster relationships with parliamentarians.
Witting. That’s the word in the latest report on foreign interference that changes things.
In the latest review, we don’t just see cases of messing with political messages in a local election or allegations of interference in a nomination race, such as that of then-Liberal, now-independent MP Han Dong.
Now, a committee of MPs has reported that some of their colleagues in politics have known they were helping a foreign state or being helped by one. It suggests that foreign interference sometimes takes two to tango, through a co-opting of Canadian parliamentarians who might get a political benefit from it.
