Nice organ you have there. It’d be a shame if anything happened to it.
A Liberal MP admitted on Twitter that while an initial legal assessment found that the controversial newspaper The Epoch Times broke no laws, the federal government continues to “look into” the publication.
Merry Xmas folks!
Here's a searchable data base of every organization in Canada that received the CEWS wage subsidy benefit all 368,240 businesses, charities and non-profits. https://t.co/UUPiLseK1p
Like the $30 billion Rogers media empire where Mayor @JohnTOry has senior roles pic.twitter.com/URiFwzcUPr— not inklessPW 💎 (@inklessPW) December 25, 2020
Whoops! No, no, no. They pulled it down! “The “View full list of employers” functionality is temporarily unavailable.”
But you can still read some of the highlights on this thread — including!
$55 billion of COVID subsidies (tax $$ ) paid to >300,000 organizations including:
BCE (Bell Canada)
Rogers Communications
Galen Weston’s Shoppers Drug Mart
Bank of China
PetroChina
China Southern Airlines
Air China
Update (that was fast): The $54 billion questions has been answered. Someone tweeted out the the URL that links to the full list of all 340,000 CEWs recipients that are corporations
It’s here. Enjoy!
Trudeau’s government gave COVID relief payments – funded entirely by Canadian taxpayers – to the Bank of China. Speechless. #cdnpoli https://t.co/SAbVebhPyv
— Alan Fryer (@alanfryermedia) December 23, 2020
@anthonyfurey: The Trudeau govt has just nixed a Chinese govt firm’s plans to buy TMAC Resources, a mine with a strategic seaport & airfield in the Arctic. Bravo!!
TMAC news release here.
Justin Trudeau invited China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) to send its troops for cold weather training at CFB Petawawa in Ontario — and Trudeau raged at the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) for cancelling the training after China kidnapped Canadian citizens Michael Spavor and Michael Kovrig.
This is only one of many bombshell revelations in The China Files, a 34-page access to information document released by the Trudeau government to Rebel News, seen below…
Updated with the full video. Not to be missed.
A former commander of Canadian troops in Afghanistan is urging the federal government to reject a takeover of an Arctic gold mine by a Chinese state-owned enterprise.
Retired major-general David Fraser said this rejection should form part of a strategic rethink aimed at keeping China out of Canada’s Far North.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s cabinet recently ordered a formal national security review of the proposed acquisition of Toronto-based
TMAC Resources Inc. by Shandong Gold Mining Co. Ltd., a Chinese state-owned conglomerate and one of the world’s largest gold producers.
A senior government official told The Globe and Mail that the Canadian military is opposed to the transaction because of Beijing’s growing economic and military threat in the High Arctic. The Globe is not identifying the official who was not authorized to publicly discuss the security review under way.
Mr. Fraser said Ottawa should turn down the $207.4-million takeover, citing the mine’s location in Hope Bay, an inlet on the Northwest Passage, as
well as its proximity to Canadian early warning radar facilities.
“This thing has a port attached to it. [China has] written a paper saying they want to be a near-Arctic power. Well, this gives them actual Arctic access,” Mr. Fraser said in an interview.
“If you look at what they have done on the South China Sea to extend their area of influence – what’s to stop them, once they get squatter’s rights and get into this port, of doing the same thing up there?”
Not this government. They’ll send the RCMP to carry their bags of cash.
Rest is here.
Two Canadian MPs are taking part in a campaign to release Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou that cites “deteriorating relations with China and the rise of Sinophobia in Canada”.
The New Democratic Party’s Niki Ashton and the Green Party’s Paul Manly are both listed as speakers at the “Zoom to Free Meng Wanzhou” online panel discussion on Tuesday evening.
Manly’s participation is in line with the policy of the Greens, who have three MPs and in July called on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s federal government to ask the US to drop its charges against Meng and its request to have her extradited.
Related: Irresponsible ‘tough talk’ with China is useless, says Canada foreign minister
Related: The Chief Justice of the Superior Court of Quebec, Jacques R. Fournier, tells Le Journal de Québec he was unaware of the ethical rules governing travel of judicial officials abroad when he accepted an all-expenses-paid trip to China last year:
Related: According to a disclosure filed with the US Justice Department, Canada’s Globe and Mail newspaper received $132,046 for a number of advertising campaigns that featured flattering coverage of China.
@brianlilley — Moments ago in the House, Prime Minister @JustinTrudeau rose to vote against a motion calling for a decision on Huawei being in Canada’s 5G network and to have a plan to combat China’s foreign agents working to intimidate Canadians who speak against Beijing. Shameful #cdnpoli
And there it is. The covid virus (the flu), is the crisis they needed to bring in the reset or otherwise known, global communism. Trudeau isn’t even hiding it now. They see us over a barrel…. pic.twitter.com/qk2BuekRgY
— A Minus (@AMinus____) November 15, 2020
Why aren’t we seeing this video clip in the form of a Conservative social media ad, @erinotoole? Where are @PremierScottMoe and @jkenney?
After covering news that Nenshi was a target of Chinese influence, we gained access to dozens of pages of correspondence between Mayor Nenshi and the official Chinese Consulate in Calgary.
In the documents, Nenshi is sent menacing warnings to avoid any contact with a Tibetan official — Dr. Lobsang Sangay — who was visiting the city in 2018. He is told to “stick to the one-China policy, refuse any contact with Lobsang Sangay, and provide no support or convenience for his secessionist activities against China.” Nenshi was also told to whip city councillors to fall into line with Beijing.
Via.
China’s ambassador to Canada is urging Ottawa to stop granting asylum to democracy activists from Hong Kong, whom he described as “violent criminals” and warned that accepting these people could jeopardize the “health and safety” of 300,000 Canadian citizens still living in the former British colony.
Asked if he was issuing a threat, envoy Cong Peiwu replied: “That is your interpretation.”
Mr. Cong used a press conference Thursday to say that Beijing finds it unacceptable that Canada recently accepted two Hong Kong pro-democracy dissidents as political refugees. He also took strong exception to a call from nearly 60 Canadian MPs and senators to shelter more Hong Kong residents fleeing China’s draconian national-security law.
“We strongly urge the Canadian side not to grant so-called political asylum to those violent criminals in Hong Kong because it is interference in China’s domestic affairs and certainly it will embolden those violent criminals,” he said. […]
Mr. Cong indicated any further action to offer shelter to Hong Kong residents could have consequences for the many Canadians living in the Asian financial hub.
“If the Canadian side really cares about the stability and the prosperity in Hong Kong, and really cares about the good health and safety of those 300,000 Canadian passport holders in Hong Kong and the large number of Canadian companies operating in Hong Kong . . . you should support those efforts to fight violent crimes,” he said.
The Canadian government has gone to the Federal Court in an attempt to protect “sensitive” information about the raid of a Quebec company that was searched by the RCMP as part of an investigation into the alleged diversion of technology with military uses to China.
RCMP officers searched JYS Technologies in Brossard, Que., in 2018. They were acting at the request of the FBI, which was looking for evidence of money-laundering, fraud and the procurement and export of U.S. technology and defense information.
Two years later, the federal government is now trying to stop the release of details of that search.
Members of the Canada-China business establishment in Beijing applauded a senior Chinese official who demanded the release of Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou and held Ottawa solely responsible for problems between the two countries.
Loud clapping rang out in a ballroom at the Four Seasons hotel in the Chinese capital on Tuesday when vice-minister of commerce Wang Shouwen called for Ms. Meng to “come back to her homeland as soon as possible.” He was speaking at a dinner for the Canada-China Business Council annual general meeting.
The room remained quiet when the Canadian government asked for equal treatment. Silence followed when Mary Ng, Minister of Small Business, Export Promotion and International Trade, called for the release of Canadians Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor, who are being held in spartan Chinese detention centres, and requested clemency for Robert Schellenberg, a Canadian sentenced to death on drug charges. It was silent, too, when Canadian ambassador Dominic Barton called for the same. […]
The scallop and strip-loin dinner sponsored by Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. and several Canadian firms was the closest the two countries came to a commemorative event on Tuesday for the 50th anniversary of diplomatic relations.
WATCH & SHARE: PM Trudeau refuses to answer questions about his relationship with the Chinese Communist Party. pic.twitter.com/SoNFAmwoMW
— Michael Barrett (@MikeBarrettON) October 7, 2020
It must be Casino Day in QP.
I think there’s a lot that we can do, but the social media companies themselves need to step up. We don’t have to regulate everything but if you can’t regulate yourselves, governments will. @s_guilbeault https://t.co/O7PvYsWPH1
— Catherine McKenna (@cathmckenna) September 22, 2020
News reports of U.S. President Donald Trump downplaying the serious nature of COVID-19 have received plenty of news coverage — unfortunately, we can’t say the same thing for the Trudeau government’s handling of the situation.
As late as mid-March, the Trudeau government was saying the risk to Canadians was low and closing borders was ineffective, if not downright racist, while also discouraging the mask use we all deal with now.
More: a Patty Hadju juxtapose.
Concentration Camp Tested and Approved.
A collaboration between a Chinese company and a Halifax research team aiming to carry out Canada’s first clinical trials of a potential COVID-19 vaccine has been abandoned amid rising tensions between the two countries.
The partnership between the National Research Council of Canada and CanSino Biologics was announced by the federal government in May.
A team at the Canadian Centre for Vaccinology at Dalhousie University was supposed to work with CanSino to run the first Canadian clinical trials for a possible COVID-19 vaccine. CanSino’s vaccine, called Ad5-nCoV, was already being run through human trials in China and has shown promising results.
A major warehouse facility under construction in Surrey is not just paving the way for more trade between B.C. and China. It could be helping pave Chinese President Xi Jinping’s Belt and Road Initiative to Canada.
The massive $190 million, 470,000-square-foot complex, dubbed the “World Commodity Trade Center,” is a joint venture between a Chinese state-sponsored company and a local development firm. The centre, first conceived in Beijing, has four warehouses and two large exhibition halls — to be lined with Chinese and Canadian flags — strategically located in the Campbell Heights industrial zone between Vancouver International Airport and the United States border.
