“Beijing was determined that the Conservatives did not win”

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Globe & Mail; CSIS documents reveal Chinese strategy to influence 2021 election

China employed a sophisticated strategy to disrupt Canada’s democracy in the 2021 federal election campaign as Chinese diplomats and their proxies backed the re-election of Justin Trudeau’s Liberals – but only to another minority government – and worked to defeat Conservative politicians considered to be unfriendly to Beijing.

The full extent of the Chinese interference operation is laid bare in both secret and top-secret Canadian Security Intelligence Service documents viewed by The Globe and Mail that cover the period before and after the September, 2021, election that returned the Liberals to office.

The CSIS reports were shared among senior government officials and Canada’s Five Eyes intelligence allies of the United States, Britain, Australia and New Zealand. Some of this intelligence was also shared with French and German spy services.

Over the past decade, China, under President Xi Jinping, has adopted a more aggressive foreign policy as it seeks to expand its political, economic and military influence around the world.

MPs on the Commons Procedure and House Affairs committee are already looking into allegations that China interfered in the 2019 election campaign to support 11 candidates, most of them Liberal, in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA).

Drawn from a series of CSIS intelligence-gathering operations, the documents illustrate how an orchestrated machine was operating in Canada with two primary aims: to ensure that a minority Liberal government was returned in 2021, and that certain Conservative candidates identified by China were defeated.

The documents say the Chinese Communist Party leadership in Beijing was “pressuring its consulates to create strategies to leverage politically [active] Chinese community members and associations within Canadian society.” Beijing uses Canadian organizations to advocate on their behalf “while obfuscating links to the People’s Republic of China.”

The classified reports viewed by The Globe reveal that China’s former consul-general in Vancouver, Tong Xiaoling, boasted in 2021 about how she helped defeat two Conservative MPs.

But despite being seen by China as the best leader for Canada, Beijing also wanted to keep Mr. Trudeau’s power in check – with a second Liberal minority in Parliament as the ideal outcome.

CSIS warned Trudeau about Toronto-area politician’s alleged ties to Chinese diplomats

In early July, 2021 – eight weeks before election day – one consular official at an unnamed Chinese diplomatic mission in Canada said Beijing “likes it when the parties in Parliament are fighting with each other, whereas if there is a majority, the party in power can easily implement policies that do not favour the PRC.”

While the Chinese diplomat expressed unhappiness that the Liberals had recently become critical of China, the official added that the party is better than the alternatives. Canada-China relations hit their lowest point since the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre after December, 2018, when Beijing locked up two Canadians in apparent retaliation for Ottawa’s arrest of a Chinese Huawei executive on an extradition request from the United States.

Most important, the intelligence reports show that Beijing was determined that the Conservatives did not win. China employed disinformation campaigns and proxies connected to Chinese-Canadian organizations in Vancouver and the GTA, which have large mainland Chinese immigrant communities, to voice opposition to the Conservatives and favour the Trudeau Liberals.

The CSIS documents reveal that Chinese diplomats and their proxies, including some members of the Chinese-language media, were instructed to press home that the Conservative Party was too critical of China and that, if elected, it would follow the lead of former U.S. president Donald Trump and ban Chinese students from certain universities or education programs.

“This will threaten the future of the voters’ children, as it will limit their education opportunities,” the CSIS report quoted the Chinese consulate official as saying. The official added: “The Liberal Party of Canada is becoming the only party that the PRC can support.”

CSIS also explained how Chinese diplomats conduct foreign interference operations in support of political candidates and elected officials. Tactics include undeclared cash donations to political campaigns or having business owners hire international Chinese students and “assign them to volunteer in electoral campaigns on a full-time basis.”

Sympathetic donors are also encouraged to provide campaign contributions to candidates favoured by China – donations for which they receive a tax credit from the federal government. Then, the CSIS report from Dec. 20, 2021 says, political campaigns quietly, and illegally, return part of the contribution – “the difference between the original donation and the government’s refund” – back to the donors.

A key part of their interference operation is to influence vulnerable Chinese immigrants in Canada. The intelligence reports quote an unnamed Chinese consulate official as saying it’s “easy to influence Chinese immigrants to agree with the PRC’s stance.”

China wants to build acceptance abroad for its claims on Taiwan, a self-ruled island that it considers a breakaway province and still reserves the right to annex by force. And it seeks to play down its conduct in Xinjiang, where the office of former UN Human Rights commissioner Michelle Bachelet last year said China has committed “serious human-rights violations” in the region, which may amount to crimes against humanity.

Similarly it wants to generate support for a draconian 2020 national-security law to silence opposition and dissent in Hong Kong, a former British colony that Beijing had once promised would be allowed to retain Western-style civil liberties for 50 years.

Beijing also seeks to quell foreign support for Tibet, a region China invaded and annexed more than 70 years ago, and to discourage opposition to Beijing’s militarization of the South China Sea and sweeping maritime claims in the region.

A month after the September, 2021, vote, CSIS reported that it was “well-known within the Chinese-Canadian community of British Columbia” that Ms. Tong, then the Vancouver consul-general, “wanted the Liberal Party to win the 2021 election,” one of the reports said.

CSIS noted that Ms. Tong, who returned to China in July, 2022, and former consul Wang Jin made “discreet and subtle efforts” to encourage members of Chinese-Canadian organizations to rally votes for the Liberals and defeat Conservative candidates.

CSIS said Mr. Wang has direct ties to the Chinese Communist Party’s United Front Work Department (UFWD), a vast organization that uses mostly covert and often manipulative operations to influence overseas ethnic Chinese communities and foreign governments. CSIS said Mr. Wang served as an intermediary between the UFWD and Chinese-Canadian community leaders in British Columbia.

In early November, 2021, CSIS reported, Ms. Tong discussed the defeat of a Vancouver-area Conservative, whom she described as a “vocal distractor” of the Chinese government. A national-security source said the MP was Kenny Chiu. The Globe and Mail is not identifying the source, who risks prosecution under the Security of Information Act.

The source said Mr. Chiu was targeted in retaliation for his criticism of China’s crackdown in Hong Kong and his 2021 private member’s bill aiming to establish a registry of foreign agents, an effort inspired by similar Australian legislation to combat foreign interference. The United States has a long-standing registry; Canada is still studying the matter.

Mr. Chiu, who was elected to represent Steveston–Richmond East in 2019, lost the 2021 federal election to Liberal candidate Parm Bains and is widely believed to be a victim of a Beijing-led online disinformation campaign.

According to CSIS, Ms. Tong talked about China’s efforts to influence mainland Chinese-Canadian voters against the Conservative Party. She said Mr. Chiu’s loss proved “their strategy and tactics were good, and contributed to achieving their goals while still adhering to the local political customs in a clever way.”

In mid-November, CSIS reported that an unnamed Chinese consular official said the loss of Mr. Chiu and fellow Conservative MP Alice Wong substantiated the growing electoral influence of mainland Chinese-Canadians.

Former federal Conservative leader Erin O’Toole has alleged that foreign interference by China in the 2021 election campaign, using disinformation, cost the party eight or nine seats. The Liberals won 160 seats compared with 119 for the Conservatives, 32 for the Bloc Québécois and 25 for the NDP, while the Greens picked up two seats.

While the Conservative Party’s overall share of the popular vote increased slightly in the election, the party lost a number of ridings with significant Chinese-Canadian populations. These included the defeat of incumbents such as Mr. Chiu, Richmond Centre MP Ms. Wong and Markham–Unionville’s Bob Saroya.

However, the Security and Intelligence Threats to Elections (SITE) Task Force set up by the Trudeau government to monitor threats to federal elections never issued any public warning about foreign interference during the 2019 or 2021 campaigns.

Mr. Trudeau has said it found no meddling, telling the Commons in November of last year that the task force “determined that the integrity of our elections was not compromised in 2019 or 2021.” He also told reporters that “Canadians can be reassured that our election integrity held” in the two elections.

The Globe has reported that the Prime Minister received a national-security briefing last fall in which he was told China’s consulate in Toronto had targeted 11 candidates in the 2019 federal election. CSIS Director David Vigneault told Mr. Trudeau that there was no indication that China’s interference efforts had helped elect any of them, despite the consulate’s attempts to promote the campaigns on social media and in Chinese-language media outlets.

Nine Liberal and two Conservative candidates were favoured by Beijing, according to the national-security source. The source said the two Conservative candidates were viewed as friends of China.

65 Replies to ““Beijing was determined that the Conservatives did not win””

  1. Book – Wilful Blindness: How a criminal network of narcos, tycoons and CCP agents infiltrated the West
    by Sam Cooper     , released May 2021
    ISBN: 0888903146 | 472 pages

    Here is a synopsis of the book.

    In 1982 three of the most powerful men in Asia met in Hong Kong. They would decide how Hong Kong would be handed over to the People’s Republic of China and how Chinese business tycoons Henry Fok and Li Ka-Shing would help Deng Xiaoping realize the Chinese Communist Party’s domestic and global ambitions. That meeting would not only change Vancouver but the world.

    Billions of dollars in Chinese investment would soon reach the shores of North America’s Pacific coast. B.C. government casinos became a tool for global criminals to import deadly narcotics into Canada and launder billions of drug cash into Vancouver real estate. And it didn’t happen by accident. A cast of accomplices — governments hungry for revenue, casino, and real estate companies with ties to shady offshore wealth, professional facilitators including lawyers and bankers, an aimless RCMP that gave organized crime room to grow — all combined to cause this tragedy. There was greed, folly, corruption, conspiracy, and wilful blindness.

    Decades of bad policy allowed drug cartels, first and foremost the Big Circle Boys — powerful transnational narco-kingpins with ties to corrupt Chinese officials, real estate tycoons, and industrialists — to gain influence over significant portions of Canada’s economy. Many looked the other way while B.C.’s primary industry, real estate, ballooned with dirty cash. But the unintended social consequences are now clear: a fentanyl overdose crisis raging in major cities throughout North America and life spans falling for the first time in modern Canada, and a runaway housing market that has devastated middle-class income earners. This story isn’t just about real estate and fentanyl overdoses, though. Sam Cooper has uncovered evidence that shows the primary actors in so-called “Vancouver Model” money laundering have effectively made Canada’s west coast a headquarters for corporate and industrial espionage by the CCP. And these ruthless entrepreneurs have used Vancouver and Canada to export their criminal model to other countries around the world including Australia and New Zealand. Meanwhile, Cooper finds that the RCMP’s 2019 arrest of its top intelligence official, Cameron Ortis, raises many frightening questions. Could Chinese transnational criminals and state actors targeting

    Canada’s industrial and technological crown jewels have gained protection from the Mounties? Could China and Iran have insight into Canada’s deepest national security secrets and influence on investigations? Ortis had oversight of many investigations into transnational money laundering networks and insight into sensitive probes of suspects seeking to undermine Canada’s democracy and infiltrate the United States, according to the evidence Cooper has found.

    Wilful Blindness is a powerful narrative that follows the investigators who refused to go along with institutionalized negligence and corruption that enabled the Vancouver Model, with Cooper drawing on extensive interviews with the whistle-blowers; thousands of pages of government and court documents obtained through legal applications; and large caches of confidential material available exclusively to Cooper.

    The book culminates with a shocking revelation showing how deeply Canada has been compromised, and what needs to happen, to get the nation back on track with its “Five Eyes” allies.

    “I’m astonished that some Hollywood production company hasn’t already signed him for a big-screen treatment of this story. It’s a huge story.” — Terry Glavin, National Post

    3. The Chicoms have also used the Pierre Trudeau Foundation to extend their influence over the Dear Leader:

      “According to access-to-information documents, the foundation was getting comparative nickel-and-dime donations until Justin Trudeau was having the populace swooning as leader of the third party in Parliament, as well as growing anxious in 2015 to finally see the back of prime minister Stephen Harper after 10 years of Conservative rule.

      There was that uncomfortable time in 2016 when $1 million was donated to the foundation by two Chinese businessmen — one with connections to Beijing — after one of the men attended Trudeau’s controversial cash-for-access private dinners at the home of a Chinese multimillionaire. The donation included $50,000 for the building of a statue to Pierre Elliott Trudeau.”

      https://torontosun.com/opinion/columnists/bonokoski-donations-poured-into-pet-foundation-once-justin-trudeau-became-liberal-leader

      1. O-MJ

        Yea.. he came in with a Trust fund worth some 10mil and said same trust fund is near 400mil today…..imagine dat eh. ?

        8 years…thats some RRSP.

  4. The Globe and Mail has this path breaking story with a large banner headline across its main page. This I think means that the corrupt broadcast cartel (CBC, CTV Global news) will repeat the story to its low-infotmation viewers.

    Reporters Fife and Chase have a deep throat within CSIS feeding them top secret information on the China file. I suspect the person is very senior in the department. The person is fed up with Trudeau’s traitorous acts assisting China. You can bet there is a serious search to uncover the leaker — a patriot in my opinion.

    1. I am sure you are right. The corruption inside the Liberal Party and the old PC under Mulroney in regards to the CCP goes back a long way.

    3. “The Globe and Mail has this path breaking story with a large banner headline across its main page. This I think means that the corrupt broadcast cartel (CBC, CTV Global news) will repeat the story to its low-infotmation viewers.”

      CBC has an article up, but comments are disabled (surprise, surprise…).

  5. The Chinese prevented a CPC government being elected.
    Probably a good thing. O’Tool as PM would have been the end of the Conservative part of CPC.

  6. Funny how this story and the Public Order Emergency Inquiry report both come out today, when Trudeau has conveniently arranged to be out of the country.

    Ministers used to resign and governments used to fall over this sort of thing. Is there no crime that Canadians will not allow this coterie of socialist jackals to get away with?

      1. For “team” Turdeau, the absence of shame ’tis a powerfully useful key feature – NOT a bug, and guaranteed to be one hundred percent compatible with Turdopia’s zero-information voting demographic.

        Day by day especially for this country, the book of Revelation is looking less like an apocalyptic religious vision, and more like a preview of global social and political news…

    1. Yes, but Kate put the entire G&M article above.

      Most business articles paywall their stuff, thinking that investors are rich enough to afford a subscription. I’m an avid business-news reader, so what I do is to type the exact headline into a Google search, and more often than not there is an internet site that reprints the article.

      Can’t reply on Google or Yahoo newsfeeds, since these tech oligarchs support China espionage.

  8. Well this just confirms that PM turdhole is just as fake as president Xiden in the US. Think we can vote ourselves out of this mess?

    1. Answer to “Think we can vote ourselves out of this mess?”, not a chance. The corruption is in depth everywhere and the Banksters, whether Chinese or globalist, now know that liberal perfidy can be exploited right down to local dog-catcher. Those petty tyrants are for sale cheap because, as much as they appreciate bribes, their main motivation is to inflict damage on successful, happy people – themselves being neither.

  9. Don’t know why China bothers.

    Liberals rule until their brazen Libranoness is finally noticed by regularly comatose canadians and even the co-opted media get temporarily disgusted.

    15 years give or take.

    Then you get a Mulroney. Who Libranoed. Typical con.

    Or you get a Harper. Who Turtled. Typical con.

    It would take a very, very different Conservative Party(courageous, actually conservative) to take on somnolent, broken Canadians.

    To say nothing of the Media, the Courts, Education System, Big Business……etc, etc……

    A lot of fingers in the till in unsupervised Canada.

    The Fix is always in. Always.

    Pity.

        1. PPC may get 5% of votes.
          Indeed, john70, “but it will never have the votes.”
          So…. Canadians have the solution to this problem however “but it will never have the votes.”
          Sheeple everywhere.

          What exactly will Poilievre do?

          Not much. He will LibCon as hell until replaced by a fellow LibCon from the Liberal wing of the LibCon uniparty.

          “but it will never have the votes.”

          5% of voters vote PPC, the real conservative party.

          Rock on Canada. The LibCon way.

          1. You want another WeeeBecker running Khanaduh?.. Another pol with a speech impediment?.. No thanks.

          2. The PPC might just sink the possibility of getting rid of the Liberals. No one is worse than Trudeau and his sycophantic posse. I implore the PPC to get out of the running and support the conservatives. Divided we fall.

            And … Poilievre will do what needs to be done. He has been outlining if for some time now. It’s on TV and the Internet. take a peek sometime. You may be surprised what you can learn by reading.

        2. And that john is why canadians are getting what they deserve. canadians are too stupid to vote for freedom and a fresh start.

      2. You do know Bernier is a WEF Globalist I hope. Same shit as the rest.
        Canada needs broken up into smaller Republics perhaps.
        Republic Of Alberta, Republic of SK. etc.

        1. LOL.

          Bernier went to a WEF meeting as a CPC minister back in the day.

          LOL. Poilievre is a WEF member

        2. Why aren’t you considering the possibility that real conservatives could have gone to WEF conferences to scope out the enemy?

          Both Poislievre and Bernier talk like real conservatives, something that lib-lites O’Scheer and The Toole wouldn’t dare do out of fear of the MSM. I support Bernier but fervently wish that Poislievre would beg the PPC to return to CCP with some much needed Alliance/Reform backbone. As long as the CPC runs scared of big media they aren’t a credible conservative option.

          1. “As long as the CPC runs scared of big media they aren’t a credible conservative option.”

            As long as they support ‘supply management’ and residential schools as “a genocide” they will never be seen as conservatives.

    2. “Don’t know why China bothers.”

      RESOURCES!

      All China has for resources is a about a billion and a half pismire type colony who are of course, enslaved and will build iPhones and anything else they are told to build until they drop dead. Chinese retirement funding is dodgy and mostly non-existent.

      Canada’s Justin Trudeau is using that role model to consolidate power and sell us out. I am not sure where these elites plan to live out their glorious lives, but nowhere will be safe when no one is free.

      A slave planet is a boring and dangerous planet- and no one is hired on merit.

    3. The issue is, quite simply, that Canada is not a country. In fact, it never was. The “country” cannot exist in its present state as it is far too politically polarized. The same situation actually existed in the former USSR…..you can stir oil and water until you are blue in the face, but when you stop, the oil and water will always separate. It’s time for that to happen. And anybody who thinks it can’t happen needs to study history….there is nothing sacrosanct about the borders of any country…..they are fluid.

      1. The big mistake, both historically and presently, is that treaties, accords, legislation don’t all have expiry dates. Why are both Francophones and the hodge-podge of “indigenous” peoples still enjoying privileges that were dubious when enacted and absurd today?

  10. Going on memory from the book on security classifications, “Secret” & “Top Secret”, the divulgence of which could/would cause serious and/or grave damage to Canada… Does anyone else see the government going to Court to get the Globe to reveal its source(s)?

  11. Will this be enough for Jagmeet to end his support for the Dear Leader? No, Jagmeet will simply stay silent on the scandal, and the legacy media won’t ask him how he can possibly continue to prop up the Liberals given these revelations.

    1. Why would he do otherwise? The political Sikhs are willing partners in the CCP’s plot to corrupt and control Canada.

  12. In other, equally shocking news:
    Elton John is gay
    Keith Richards has taken drugs
    Simon Le Bon slept with 80s supermodels

    Giving credit where credit appears – appears – due to the G&M though, for at least investigating and reporting this. I still won’t subscribe to their paywall

    The next ‘revelation’ they’re going to report is that “Stop Asian Hate” multi-media campaign that was literally EVERYWHERE at the start of Covid was bought and paid for by the Chinese Communist Party to bully us into not looking into China’s responsibility for the pandemic.

  13. The Chinese Communist Party is the largest political party in Canada (by the number of members).

  14. Is it really the Chinese who are disrupting Canadian politics or the Liberals? I’m firmly in the latter.

    1. Neither. It is spoiled rotten Canadians who will not lift a finger nor a neuron to risk stepping out of their current comfort zone. “The Greatest Generation”, my parents, built such a comfortable standard of living and “social safety net” that all succeeding generations have had the luxury of taking it all for granted.

      We mustn’t blame the hucksters for seeking marks. It’s up to marks to wise up to the hucksters, but we aren’t seeing a lot of that happening.

    1. The Laurentian elite, using the G&M to send a message to Trudeau. They’re getting tired of his ballerina act, as they see the polling going the wrong way, with Pepe leading the Cons and doing a fine job communicating to the Low Infos, at least to enough of them.
      Greasing the skids for a changing of the guard?
      Their next chosen one, Mark Carney, is waiting in the wings. Their Globalist, green corporate shill puppet is salivating at the chance.
      But, Pepe is salivating too, there’s lots of territory to skewer a Bay St Banker to ordinary Canadians.

      1. Carney is dangerous.
        He will quickly finish the job his WEF masters want , without any hoopla surrounding what socks he wears.
        I’d rather have PP , it might buy us some time to get our act together and find our collective ball sacks.

  17. Disappointed? Yes. Surprised? Not in the least.

    Plus, right now, Blackie’s handlers are trying to figger how to pull the Mop & Pail’s taxpayer-supported funding because of this accidental act of journalism.

  18. I await the official response from the CPC. I expect to be disappointed.

    I wonder who the two CPC MP’s are.

    1. Betting the Conservatives involved will be at best a long shot Chinese are smart enough to try and involve PC members for just this situation.Also noticed this broke on a Friday so as to let things cool down over the weekend

  19. Just to put all of your minds at ease over who should become the next PM of Canada I’d like to volunteer my services. I have no life long allegiance to any party, I can’t claim immense wealth since I’ve been a working stiff all my life, I can’t claim a university degree in political science, and being at at advanced age I’m not volunteering to fill my pockets. In addition I’m not interested in foreign travel having done that when I was younger and fitter, so I’m quite happy to stay in Canada and keep taxpayers money in Canada instead of travelling the world giving money away to third world despots to aquire a seat at the UN. I only have two detrimental points and they are definitely my undoing, I’m a WASP and I drive a diesel. /Sarc.

    I thought I’d start the weekend off with a laugh, given all the misery that we have been inundated with over the last few days.

  23. Fife the knife. He’s got sources.

    My guess is you wouldn’t have to go too far up the CSIS hierarchy to find someone who ‘knows things’ and has had enough of the Bongs shit. Once these things start to happen you don’t cork the bottle.

    Interesting times ahead. Careers are going to end. Abruptly.

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