A clandestine intervention in Canada’s elections is not exactly “interference” if it’s solicited, invited and welcomed, and it’s not precisely “foreign” if the culprits are willing Canadian operatives and proxies in foreign-directed influence campaigns.
This appears to have been the case, NSICOP concludes, in several obliquely-described instances gleaned almost entirely from top-secret reports by the Canadian Security Intelligence Service.
There’s always the Conflict of Interest and Ethics Commissioner and the Senate Ethics Officer that could help Parliamentarians figure out how to reduce their exposure to the shadowy maneuvers of hostile foreign powers, the report observes. But these resources will only work against unwelcome advances.
“Unfortunately, the Committee has also seen troubling intelligence that some Parliamentarians are, in the words of the intelligence services, “semi-witting or witting” participants in the efforts of foreign states to interfere in our politics.”
This is not just about China’s vast United Front Work Department, which by strong-arming and influence-peddling has burrowed deeply into ethnic Chinese political activism, the media, the universities and Canada’s political parties, most notably the Liberal Party. Beijing has also disrupted Conservative party leadership races, the report notes (the United Front was especially determined to unseat Erin O’Toole from the Conservative leadership two years ago).[…]
Like the documents released during the course of Madam Justice Hogue’s hearings in the foreign interference commission proceedings earlier this year, much of the NSICOP report vindicates news reports based on CSIS leaks about Beijing’s monkey-wrenching during the 2019 and 2021 federal elections — reports the Trudeau government was all too willing to dismiss before the evidence became too overpowering to ignore.
“The Committee rejects any notion that the individual or individuals responsible for the leaks acted as patriots or whistleblowers,” the NSICOP report states. “On the other hand, the Committee acknowledges an uncomfortable truth. Prior to the leaks, there was little sense of urgency between elected officials and senior decision-makers to address outstanding gaps to this important and well-documented threat to national security.”
Sam Cooper: I’ve also discussed with @kshahrooz that a notorious LPC MP may appear to be implicated in both PRC and Iran threat networks, and this could be an important convergence to understand geopolitically.
Hmmm, top secret, eh?
So much for democracy when you can’t know what I know.
It could bite the government me in the end on the who’s who list including ex-Mayors on over seas trips to China before Covid.
That would be Naheed Nenshi meeting with the # 5 guy in ChiCom Hierarchy, the mayor of BEJING.
I’ve been after this filthy COMMIE POS TRAITOR on “X” for weeks – demanding an answer as to what was discussed.
Sure as shit wasn’t Road maintenance.
His silence on the matter speaks VOLUMES..!!
I wouldn’t be surprised if China is installed in the next Ukraine government as past politicians installed were corrupted.
This gives stability to not having NATO trying to corrupt the next installed government and assurance to the Russian government.
I wanted to get rid of Erin O’Toole too but for different reasons than the Chinese. I thought he was a simp. The Chinese only had eyes for Trudeau.
Canada……. who cares……
Fred Rose is owed an apology.
Tim Buck, too!
At first I suspected Trudeau but then realized – he is as witless as they come
It’s not “interference” if PM deems it “not serious”.
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This all stinks.
Adscam looks like child’s play when you look at the security implications and add in the $8 Billion climate slush fund.
$8 Billion. No accountability.
The Liberals quite simply cannot be trusted.
Not to give Jagmeet any credit, but I bet they have something on him and he doesn’t have the balls to speak up for country
Not just stink, but putrid, anything to do with Trudeau.
He needs to be arrested at the very least. Heads need to roll.
Semi witting participants? Is that the same as a half wit. If so its a fairly adequate description of a great many Liberal MP’s
The Committee rejects any notion that the individual or individuals responsible for the leaks acted as patriots or whistleblowers
That’s not too surprising. CSIS isn’t exactly a bastion of nationalistic sentiment. I assumed it was part of a blackmail operation or a power play by CSIS.
Given the quality of character required to win elections as filtered and groomed by party spin doctors, is it any wonder that there are many that will take bribes and threats from foreign and foreign-backed actors and think nothing of it. We are talking about sociopaths seeking state power and control over all others. Lusting for running the preeminent criminal enterprise of the nation is not a call for ethics to be first and foremost. It’s more like doing whatever you can get away with, keeping the Eloi distracted with fear and free stuff. It works until the media does some accidental journalism.