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Big Chief Spending Money

National Post;

After a statue of Queen Elizabeth was defaced, one would hope that at least the Crown’s representative in Canada would denounce the vandalism.

Such hopes were dashed when Governor General Mary Simon addressed the issue this week and seemed to actively encourage such criminality.

She not only refused to condemn the act, “I can’t say whether it’s right or wrong,” but condoned it, “I think it’s really important for Indigenous people to express themselves in whichever form they want.”

As the first Indigenous person to hold the title of governor general, Simon obviously knows she has a role to play in reconciliation. And, indeed, as an Indigenous person and the Crown’s representative, she has a foot in both camps and is ideally suited as a mediator.

But to endorse the vandalism of a statue of Queen Elizabeth will not put us any further along the path to reconciliation. If she wishes to be an outspoken advocate for Indigenous people, she might want to reconsider the job she’s in.

She’s not indecisive about the Queen’s currency.

Our Chinese-Installed Government In Ottawa

Summary from Sam Cooper: and this is a bombshell, O’Toole risked breaching his boundaries in Parliament, to disclose @csiscanada informed him of “payment of funds by the Chinese Communist Party through the United Front Work Department to create specific products of misinformation on me as a leader” […] This is the first time I have heard a politician outline the full scope of what I have been informed of by experts and sources regarding CCP’s sweeping and covertly funded campaign of threats and inducements (support of candidates) to exert influence on Canadian elected govts.

Environment Canada Has An Annual Budget Of $2B

And they can’t manage to keep the “lights” on.

Our Chinese-Installed Government In Ottawa

As Trudeau travels the globe spreading inclusion and blackface: Erin O’Toole met with David Johnston for his Report

To set the scene, Mr. Johnston did not reach out to the Conservative Party, my office, or Pierre Poilievre’s office until the final week of his initial assignment. He waited until the very end to meet with the current and former leaders of the Party that had been the central target of the foreign interference he was charged with investigating. If I am to believe media reports, Johnston interviewed the Bloc Quebecois leader about events alleged to have taken place in British Columbia and Ontario – where Mr. Blanchet ran no candidates – before he finally got around to me or the present Conservative Leader. This makes no sense.

I was still waiting to receive a CSIS briefing on foreign interference that had been promised the week before when my office was called by the Johnston team and told we only had two days to make the meeting work. I asked to meet with him following my meeting with CSIS (which I am still waiting to receive) but was told that this was not possible. I confirmed with Pierre that his office received a request to meet on the same day that I was. He declined the meeting and somehow that information was leaked to the media within hours. […]

Given the pressed timeline, we were literally putting the binders together as Mr. Johnston arrived at my office with his counsel. With this in mind, you might understand how disappointed I was to learn halfway through my meeting that Johnston’s report was already undergoing French translation. I was flabbergasted and realized that nothing I was going to provide to the Special Rapporteur was going to impact his work.

What a country.

Update: Johnston’s report is in.

Our Chinese-Installed Government In Ottawa

A Quebec charity suspected of hosting two secret Chinese “overseas police stations” has received more than $4.45 million (£2.65 million) from the Canadian government over the last three years.

According to the Montreal Gazette, the Service à la Famille Chinoise du Grand Montréal (SFCGM), which purports to provide support to the Chinese community, is really used by Beijing to monitor and intimidate its citizens in Canada.

The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) believe this is one of two secret police stations in Quebec, which has nearly 92,000 people of Chinese origin.

There has been growing anxiety about the network of secret Chinese police stations across the world, which are accused of routinely harassing exiles on behalf of Beijing’s authoritarian regime.

[…]

Kelly McCauley, a Canadian Conservative MP, said he was “stunned” that no attempt had been made to recoup the money.

Well, we wouldn’t want to make them angry.

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