I’ve been covering Beijing’s influence-peddling rackets in the highest levels of Canadian political, corporate and academic circles for well over a decade now, and I haven’t seen anything quite like this. There’s no way of sugar-coating it.
In recent weeks, Trudeau and Mendicino have gone to such creepy lengths to downplay, dismiss and even cover up the extent of Beijing’s election monkeywrenching that it’s become impossible to paper over a deep rupture that has opened up in the relationship between the Prime Minister’s Office and the senior ranks of the Canadian Security and Intelligence Service.
That rupture will only get deeper now that Trudeau’s response to the revelations about the Chinese Communist Party’s 2021 election-jimmying operation is: CSIS needs to shut the hell up. The Globe’s access to the contents of those CSIS reports is “certainly a sign that security within CSIS needs to be reviewed,” Trudeau said last Friday. “And I’m expecting CSIS to take the issue very seriously.”
This isn’t how a government goes about its professed devotion to “transparency and accountability.” Count on it: the breakdown in the CSIS-PMO relationship is severe enough that intelligence officials are already familiarizing themselves with the “public interest” exemptions in the Security of Information Act – the 1985 successor to the Official Secrets Act. […]
It’s fairly routine for CSIS case officers to complain that the intelligence they procure goes up the line and nothing much seems to come of it. But what’s happening right now is not even close to routine. This is a much bigger deal than the calumny former CSIS director Richard Fadden had to endure back in 2010 after he disclosed that provincial cabinet ministers in B.C. and Ontario had come under Beijing’s sway.
Given the many smoking-gun details in the CSIS files made available to the Globe and Mail, it’s perhaps understandable that the Trudeau cabinet’s efforts to hush everything up has garnered less attention. The collapse in the CSIS-PMO relationship has gone mostly unnoticed. So let’s notice something here, shall we?
Related: Liberal Minister @marcomendicino won’t say if he knew about Foreign Police Stations before it was reported in the media.
It’s good to know we have the best that Chinese money can buy.
Yah, but… 2 hours later and they are hungry again.
No worries for the PM, though. Dine in or take-out… and China is always willing to deliver.
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Ohhhh, you said the Chinese were buying, not Sparkle Socks. Well, the Chinese are still willing to deliver and it ain’t Peking Duck in that brown paper bag.
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Don’t know why this totally unrelated thought just popped into my head, but why all the trips to the Carribean, and what are the banking laws there?
why all the trips to the Carribean, and what are the banking laws there?
the tax haven of Cayman is right next to Junior’s conception island of Cuba
“And I’m expecting CSIS to take the issue very seriously.”
I thought by revealing this information that’s precisely what CSIS had done…
I would suspect that Trudeau, et al, not only KNEW about it but were involved in it.
Since 2013.
Yes. Chretien, Martin, Mo Strong — Canadian Liberals have been courting China for a long time.
Chretien, Martin, Mo Strong
Yup, that’s a contingent from Power Corp. right there. And we know Power Corp. and Strong also created Trudeau Senior ex nihilo. The little potato is just an updated product model. Strong died in exile somewhere in China; he was avoiding arrest from Interpol for his UN oil for food shenanigans.
Chretien started all those special government trade missions to China; Harper continued them. How much did they get in kick backs?
And the voters damn well let them get away with it.
Marco Mendocino is an Argentine communist. He is far more loyal to China than he ever will be to Canada.
It seems pretty obvious that Mendocino is going to be the next person thrown under the bus to save the Turd. That list is getting pretty long.
His only regret is that he has but one political life to sacrifice for his Trudeau.
Plus, he will be rewarded with comfy fur.
Some interviewer actually had the ‘nads to ask Trudeau about China and the influence it may have had over his last election. If you watch carefully his initial facial expression would make a good AD for DEPENDS®.
A nation of fools is run by fools.
Meanwhile, the House of Commons committee investigating the China malfeasance voted down a Consevative motion to call for government documents so that the committee could bolster their research. The one NDP quisling on the committee voted with the Liberals.
The one NDP quisling on the committee voted with the Liberals.
Why isn’t anyone asking the obvious question what in blazes the NDP is getting in return for propping up the dead weight of the Trudeau Liberals? If it were a true coalition, the two parties would actually have to share power. But we all know little Junior never learned how to share anything.
What control file do the Trudeau Liberals have on Jagmeet et al.? Or is it just money, or compensation in kind?
“Why isn’t anyone asking the obvious question what in blazes the NDP is getting in return for propping up the dead weight of the Trudeau Liberals?”
What, JagDerp spooning w/ Blackie isn’t enough?
I think they realize this is the closest the NDP will ever get to holding the reins. In exchange for their support, they get stuff passed that they’d never get as third wheel. Close enough for them.
this is the closest the NDP will ever get to holding the reins
Yes, that would make sense if true. But the NDP isn’t really holding anything, other than carrying Junior’s water for him. And everyone knows Singh is getting nothing for his trouble.
Jagmeet has no influence on the power centre in Junior’s PMO. Whereas the NDP’s David Lewis had Trudeau senior by the balls in 1972.
NaRN, maybe it’s the illusion of power. After all, we’re talking not-so-bright politicians here.
@Dumb Biker
maybe it’s the illusion of power. After all, we’re talking not-so-bright politicians
That’s about the best theory I’ve heard so far! 😁
Unfortunately, and as usual, Junior is the beneficiary of a screwed up dysfunctional system.
Jimmy was elected MP in 2019 so he is now needs 2 more years for fed gold plated pension.
We know what he is, just haggling over the price.
Together, we can ALL deny this.
We need Romanians.
“Given the many smoking-gun details in the CSIS files made available to the Globe and Mail, it’s perhaps understandable that the Trudeau cabinet’s efforts to hush everything up has garnered less attention”
So, is that journospeak for “Canada’s lapdog press ain’t barking because it wants more treats”?
So one dude in CSIS isn’t worried about their pension…
What does CSE have and where the fck are the RCMP?
The Canadian national security people should be listening to every elected official once they even breathe the same air as some foreigner they suspect is a POS.
And all the politicians should know this when they say their oath.
Don’t toe the line?
Then citizens get to take all your wealth and imprison you in C.A.G.E. for life.
We can take a pant-load of Americans up there as well as a bit of payment for military protection.
Not a real comment except to say this is probably your best section title ever! “Our Chinese Installed Government In Ottawa” And I’ve loved so many other section titles in the past. SDA just keeps getting better!
Why wasn’t Medicino directly asked when he was told of the china scandal? Asking if he found out from the media or from CSIS first, gives him a way out of answering directly as few people keep track of when exactly they first discover any fact from media. It’s more likely that he’d gauge when enough chatter was in the air that he’d have to pay attention to this, and knowing when that day was would be like nailing jello to a wall.
Even reasonable and honest people wouldn’t be able to answer that accurately.
Trudeau will be re elected with a majority. He is a victim.
Trudeau will be re elected with a majority.
I doubt it. Even easterners are beginning to notice the smell. The Liberals will have to do some jiggery pokery with a couple million “new canadians” to hold on again. I think the establishment will continue to prop up Junior in power regardless of the election outcome, but I doubt he’ll “win” an outright majority again.
But I know it’s a psychological defence mechanism around here to predict the very worst and so avoid yet further disappointment.
It’s a ‘scathing’ article from verbose jornolithp Terry Glavin who won’t answer his own question, “Why? is Trudeau actively obstructing efforts to shine a public light on Beijing’s interference”
At least he appears to be abandoning Trudeau’s sinking ship.
No foreign interference report more than one year after Liberal government re-elected
https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/no-foreign-interference-report-more-than-one-year-after-liberal-government-re-elected-1.6286128