According to The Bureau’s analysis of prior CSIS reporting, comments by Chiang—a former police officer in the Markham area—reflect a longstanding pattern of election interference by the People’s Republic of China in Canada, including the use of Chinese-language media in Toronto, operating under consular influence, to amplify pro-Beijing narratives and promote candidates perceived as sympathetic to the Chinese Communist Party.
Former Conservative leader Erin O’Toole suggested Saturday that the riding of Markham–Unionville, where Paul Chiang unseated incumbent Conservative Bob Saroya in 2021, was among several successfully targeted by Beijing’s interference operations—part of what he says weakened key Conservative campaigns and ultimately contributed to his resignation as party leader.
Chiang, the sitting Member of Parliament and a candidate for re-election, was quoted in Ming Pao suggesting individuals could “claim the one-million-dollar bounty” placed by Hong Kong authorities on Conservative candidate Joe Tay—by bringing Tay to the Chinese consulate in Toronto. According to reporting, Chiang also remarked that Tay’s criminal charge under Hong Kong’s national security law would cause a “great controversy” if Tay were elected to Parliament, before issuing his bounty comment to laughter among the gathered Chinese journalists.
Chiang issued a brief apology after the remarks surfaced on Thursday. But the backlash has only intensified, with Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre accusing Chiang of echoing Chinese Communist Party repression—and Mark Carney of turning a blind eye.
“Liberal MP and candidate Paul Chiang’s heinous call to turn over a Canadian citizen to the authoritarian regime in Beijing in return for a Chinese Communist Party bounty is no accident—it reflects the Liberals’ long-standing mockery and neglect of national security for their own partisan gain,” Poilievre said Saturday.
“Carney is weak and compromised by money his company owes Beijing. His silence on these deplorable comments says it all. Carney must fire Paul Chiang as a candidate.”
Veteran democracy activist Cheuk Kwan, co-chair of the Toronto Association for Democracy in China, surfaced Chiang’s remarks Friday and called for the MP to resign.
“This is shocking. Mr. Chiang openly encouraged people to assist in China interference and transnational repression,” Kwan said. “Rather than protecting Canadians, he betrayed them and jeopardized their safety.”
Kwan noted that the bounty on Tay was issued by the Hong Kong Police Force under its new national security laws, because Tay runs a YouTube channel in Canada that is critical of governance imposed from Beijing.
I’m old enough to remember the Chinese police station story that quietly died away.
Lilley: Carney is, for far, standing by Chiang’s call to hand over a Canadian citizen to China.
CPP = Communist Cesspool Party.
So the CCP is interfering. Why would you expect anything different?
Every picture you see of that guy, he is wearing those participation ribbons.
what do they represent?
Murder.
Police Exemplary Service medal, Queen Diamond Jubilee medal.
York police should arrest Chaing. Criminal offence. At a minimum ‘counselling mischief’. Freedom Convoy got that charge, it is the least Chaing should be charged with.
The convoy, in Carney’s words, was “sedition” and even those donating should be prosecuted. Working w China to undermine “Canada” is not.
Yes blusterpoint, if Carney wins the election, beware the gulag. He believes thousands and thousands of Canadians should be prosecuted for sedition.
How many of the “Chinese Language Journalists” are agents of the CCP? how many were employed or funded by the CCP police stations? why is our feckless government not doing anything about it?
The same can be said about Chinese university students.
When I was finishing my last degree, I noticed that at least a quarter of my fellow grad students were from the PRC. Conveniently, they were doing research on subjects that would have been of interest to the CCP and, I’m sure, a lot of that information was accidentally on purpose copied and ended up over there.
Now, many of those graduate students are either university professors or are working for companies related to what they did their research on. I think you can figure out the rest.
But one thing I gathered was that those students were a close community, one where everyone knew everyone else. That has some interesting implications.
They’re allowed to try to influence elections through media — it’s a free country. Of course we should draw the line at threats and coercion, but what we really need to do is a much better job at integrating newcomers. They should be required to apply for citizenship and to acknowledge, within five years of arriving and regardless of age, that we are an English-speaking, common-law country that respects the rights of the individual above all to property, association and free speech. (Of course, in this somewhat ridiculous country, we’d have to add, “Or, we’re a French-speaking civil-law country that respects the right of the “collectivity” and the “intelligentsia”, as defined by the state, above all.)
What we need in this country is a 60-year moratorium on any immigration to Canada except for the most dire needed immigrants and that number should be in the low thousands.
You will not integrate any of these people that have been let into Canada during its Liberal Party of Canada mass immigration policies of the last 30 years, unless we have a zero immigration policy in order to breed out the “foreignness” of those we have let in. The only way to do that is to end all immigration so that they are cut off from any type of constant familiarity to their old country.
And we need to create a financial economic system in Canada that is pro-family and has tax incentives and programs to encourage family formation so that we don’t have to rely on the idiotic Mass immigration system we have in place which is totally anti-Natalist
Every Chinese restauranteur and business owner in this country that has family back in China, operates as a spy ring for the communist Chinese regime.
They should be treated as such
Communist Party of China control over canada should be the biggest issue of the election yet it is ignored.
Trump is a gift to the communists who are manipulating the stupids that live in this place.
Trump will not sit on the sidelines though, not a chance, he will end “canada”.
Confuse-us say, five eyes no see two eyes.
In a just world, Chiang ends up in a dumpster with one in the chest and one between the eyes.
l didnt know this $1,000,000 bounty actually exists. present tense. criminal enticement of some sort. sooooooo where is the farce see ’em pee or tranna cops or or or . . . ?
Conservative candidate Joe Tay’s government profile is empty: https://donvalleynorthconservatives.com/
… runs YouTube channel critical of Chi-Coms: https://www.hongkongerstation.com/tc/about-us
… thus the million dollar bounty on his head, a lesson not lost on Chinese Canadians,
resulting in many forced and willing spies. (now put yourself in the shoes of North Americans post Pearl Harbor 1941)
Marc Carney 2024, via Brookfield Asset Management,
takes $1/4Billion Chinese bribe acknowledging their continued hegemony of Canada,
and for accepting kidnapransommurder as legitimate political tactics
of the Liberal Party of Canada,
… whose Liberal MP corrupt cop and Chinese spy Paul Chiang, fraudulently unseated Conservative incumbent in 2021,
and in 2025 is confident enough to broadcast the fact that anyone can kidnap Canadian citizens for Chi-Com reward money
… member of the Standing Committee on Citizenship and Immigration which oversees Citizenship and Immigration Canada,
and the Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada, and monitors federal multiculturalism policy
… member of the Standing Committee on Public Safety and National Security,
which reviews legislation policies programs and expenditure plans of government departments and agencies responsible for;
public safety, national security, policing, law enforcement, corrections,
conditional release of federal offenders, emergency management,
crime prevention,
and protection of Canada’s borders. (of course)
… member:
Canada-Ireland Interparliamentary Group
Canada-Africa Parliamentary Association
Canada-China Legislative Association
Canada-Germany Interparliamentary Group
Canada-Europe Parliamentary Association
Canada-France Inter-Parliamentary Association
Canada-Ireland Interparliamentary Group
Canada-Israel Interparliamentary Group
Canada-Italy Interparliamentary Group
Canada-Japan Inter-Parliamentary Group
Canadian NATO Parliamentary Association
Canadian Branch of the Assemblée parlementaire de la Francophonie
Canadian Branch of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association
Canada-United States Inter-Parliamentary Group
Canadian Section of ParlAmericas
Canada-United Kingdom Inter-Parliamentary Association
Canadian Delegation to the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe Parliamentary Assembly
Canadian Group of the Inter-Parliamentary Union