Friends of Hong Kong, a non-partisan diaspora group that withdrew from Ottawa’s Foreign Interference Commission a year ago over concerns it would whitewash Chinese interference and endanger diaspora groups, has issued a blistering rebuke of Commissioner Marie-Josée Hogue’s final report.
The group argues the 16-month inquiry fails to show the federal government can counter foreign interference.
In a statement detailing their misgivings, the human rights group says the final report “only serves to deepen our serious reservations regarding our government’s willingness and ability to tackle foreign interference.”
The group criticizes Commissioner Hogue for what they deem to be a pattern of “wilful blindness” in assessing the significance of alleged meddling in Canada’s democratic processes. They also take issue with Hogue’s characterization of foreign interference as “isolated cases,” emphasizing that “even one such case is too many for a democracy like ours.” […]
Meanwhile, Duff Conacher, a longtime transparency advocate with Democracy Watch, also took aim at Hogue’s final report, calling it “mostly a cover-up of foreign interference, because it ignores a dozen loopholes in federal laws that allow for secret, undemocratic and unethical spending, fundraising, donations, loans, lobbying and disinformation campaigns by foreign proxies.”
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It’s very simple: give us the NAMES. Canadians have the right to know which of their elected MPs might be compromised (wittingly or not). You work for us, remember?
The inquiry had the same parameters as any ISO audit.
You cannot look at, assess, or even comment on anything deemed out of scope.
She didn’t see anything Trudeau wouldn’t allow to be seen.
Right. This was as bad as Adscam.
“A democracy like ours”? There’s the problem.
The inquiry turned out exactly as cynics suspected. The Liberal Party appointed a Liberal Party affiliate to investigate the Liberal Party…and the inquiry found the Liberal Party innocent. In fact, one of Hogue’s concerns was that there needs to be more censorship laws to counter misinformation and disinformation, which just happens to be on the Liberal Party’s wishlist. Hogue took no questions from reporters about her report on foreign interference.
This was a whitewash, just like the inquiry into Trudeau’s use of the Emergencies Act, which a real judge later found was unconstitutional.
Canada is such a banana republic.
Thank goodness Justin prorogued Parliament which killed the communist Bill C-63, the Online Harms Act, that had already passed first reading. I could not believe that anybody could support such a extremist repressive anti-democratic law, but the Liberals and NDP did.
But then we always new Liberals were pro-rogues.
Trudeau Liberals are control freaks but there’s more to it than that. Conformity test research found that test subjects willl comply with things they know are not true in order to conform with the group -but- if another person was added to the test who did not conform (aka. they told the truth) then the pressure to conform was broken. Censorship laws are designed to make sure conformity, the government narrative, is not challenged.
“The inquiry turned out exactly as cynics suspected. The Liberal Party appointed a Liberal Party affiliate to investigate the Liberal Party…and the inquiry found the Liberal Party innocent.”
Only after their first tactic ( appointing someone to ‘investigate’ and having him determine that an inquiry wasn’t even necessary) had failed.
“The group added, “Any party that triggers an election before these changes are enacted should be shunned by voters for enabling foreign interference.””
Is “Democracy Watch” infested with Liberal Party Hacks? There is no way that a beneficiary of the foreign interference will pass laws to prevent it.
as long as the cheques keep coming from China
All parties want the status quo. They don’t want change they want things to remain the same so they are in control. It’s the parties who are corrupt. We see it here on open display.
This issue is now officially dead.
Politicians don’t commission public inquiries unless they know what the findings will be.
// a pattern of “wilful blindness” in assessing the significance of alleged meddling in Canada’s democratic processes. //
Right. No mention of Trump.
When escaped (and presumably infiltrated) Chinese diaspora risk more to face up to communist control of Canada than the rest of Canadians do, because they live “under constant fear and threats” then you know what’s in store for the rest of Canadians down the road.
The Hogue Commision:
… allowed CCP high level access before/during/after the inquiry
… was a cover-up of foreign interference
… intentionally ignoring convenient loopholes in federal laws
… which allow secret, undemocratic and unethical spending, fundraising, donations, loans, lobbying and disinformation campaigns by China
… was easily be manipulated
… downplayed real and known threats
… encouraged more of such conduct
… included Canadian parliamentarians (un-named traitors & spies) with relations to CCP
… which in itself exposed another true threat to Canadian democracy
Agreed: No election until Trudeau is hauled back into parliament to face a public gallows, then immediate legislation to implement a Foreign Influence Transparency Registry beyond the Lobbying Act to include all political parties, all levels of government, and any appointed public office holders with full independence from the Prime Minister and Cabinet.
Then fire every MP who stood up in that pathetic standing ovation.
Whatever hard times are in store for this nation, it’s our so-called representatives who truly deserve it, along with their two million fifth columnists who call themselves government workers.
This nation requires a complete overhaul. We need a republic, better yet a number of republics. The socialists will get-the-hell to work or be exiled to Haiti.
“Then fire every MP who stood up in that pathetic standing ovation.”
Have sympathy for these useless twits, offer them a job planting trees in Greenland, to help Trump.
I want a new country.
In the Turdhole Dominion, neo-Marxists can do whatever they want.
Thank you Kate for leading me to this Democracy Watch site. Thank you to the many commenters who state their opinions. My opinion [40 years] 1964 to 2024 of soft shelled crap from all the Federal Governments who has being in power in Canada, they have created a diseased Canadian society called the infomos “STOLKHOLM SYSNDROM”.
You all know the song Money for Nothing sung by Dire Straits.
If watching Dire Straits – Money For Nothing (Official Music Video) it kinds of fits all ages from growing up to old age.
Thank’s
When the Indo/Paks are finished taking over Canada they won’t put up with any crap from China.
Nice strawman.
‘No treason was found.’
Also no connection to the Lindberg baby kidnapping, no connection to the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, and no connection to the SOB who keeps stealing my 10mm sockets.
What we really wanted to know was which Liberal and other MPs were funded and assisted by China and others.
Our MSM toadies seem to be taking the ‘no treason’ bait, eagerly.
Czechoslovakia split into two countries in 1993 and both are doing better apart.
It’s time.
The Bong did stand in the HoC and say he had seen the ‘list’ with the names, and…they were all Conservatives! He apologized and because of the extreme sensitivity he was unable to divulge the names of the traitorous conservatives.
What he did was outrageous. Telling Canadians he knows who the traitors are but since they aren’t liberals…. he gets to walk. What bullshit. He’s the traitor.
I wonder if today being the first day of the Year of the Snake in the Chinese calendar, is a warning about Mark Carney coming to power here?