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Our Chinese-Installed Governor In Ottawa

@FoodProfessor updates:

[…] No progress on tariffs imposed on Canadian pork, canola, and seafood exports to China, according to @CTVNews

Serious question: Did PM Carney actually meet with China’s President Xi?

I haven’t seen any footage during this trip showing both leaders in the same room.

@RobertFife – China propaganda mouthpiece tells @MarkJCarney to be subservient to Beijing

Master Negotiator Rides Again

National Post- Carney to visit China to talk trade with Xi 

It will be the first trip to China by a Canadian prime minister in nearly a decade, after a diplomatic row was sparked by Canada’s 2018 arrest of Huawei Technologies Co. executive Meng Wanzhou on a US extradition warrant. Shortly after, China detained two Canadians, Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor, and held them until a deal to release Meng was reached with US prosecutors in 2021.

Our Chinese-Installed Government In Ottawa

@jenstilmanydots

18 tweet rant – because it’s important:

China imports ~4% of their crude from Venezuela.

I suspect most have zero clue what China owns in Canada, and I’m astonished and angered by the naivety of my fellow countrymen.

I’m not putting my elbows up – we deserve what we’ll be getting.

Why?

Because we’ve been wilfully ignorant and complacency has consequences.

Threadreader version here. h/t Prairie Putz

It’s Probably Nothing

The Bureau;

Following massive military sales from Washington to Taiwan and rapidly scaled defensive preparations from Japan, Beijing on Monday launched a sweeping show-of-force including live-fire activity around Taiwan.

The encirclement-style operation brought 89 Chinese military aircraft and 28 PLA Navy and coast guard vessels into the waters and skies around the island, one of the heaviest single-day tallies reported in more than a year.

Taiwan’s Presidential Office condemned the operation as a “unilateral provocation” that destabilizes regional peace, while stressing that Taiwan’s security agencies had “complete situational awareness” and had made preparations. Taiwan’s Ministry of National Defense said it activated an emergency response posture and conducted immediate readiness drills.

Beijing, for its part, framed the action as a warning—an operation the PLA’s Eastern Theater Command dubbed “Justice Mission 2025,” involving the army, navy, air force, and rocket force, with designated zones for live-fire activity and sea-and-airspace restrictions.

Our Chinese-Installed Governor In Ottawa



3 days ago Michael Ma met with the Chinese ambassador.

Velly intellesting.

Initially, @CPC_HQ the Conservative Party of Canada intended for Joe Tey to run in Markham–Unionville. Just imagine: if Joe Tey, rather than Michael Ma, had been the Conservative candidate in Markham–Unionville, we would now have a powerful, fearless voice standing against the Chinese Communist Party in Parliament. But suddenly, and without clear justification, the party moved Joe Tey to Don Valley North, a strongly Liberal-leaning riding, and handed his original Markham–Unionville riding to a spineless individual like Michael Ma.

Even worse: before Michael Ma was shifted from Don Valley North to Markham–Unionville, and before Joe Tay was finalized as the candidate in Don Valley North, the party completely ignored the extensive grassroots efforts of Sabrina Zuniga, an anti-CCP candidate, and simply parachuted in Michael Ma. As a result, Joe Tey ran a good campaign in Don Valley North, but it wasn’t enough, and the Conservatives lost the seat. Don Valley North has been heavily targeted by CCP interference. The former Liberal MP, Han Dong, was forced to resign from the Liberal caucus over allegations of receiving CCP support. Before selecting Michael Ma as the Conservative candidate, the party campaign team was warned, but they chose to ignore the warnings. CCP-friendly people were working behind the scenes to make sure Michael Ma became the final candidate. Why did we not have nomination elections in Don Valley North and Markham–Unionville ridings? This is deeply troubling.

According to Google AI: Michael Ma was “born in Hong Kong, has the Chinese birth name 馬榮錚 (pronounced Mǎ Róngzhēng in Mandarin or Ma4 Kiu4-wai5 in Cantonese Jyutping).”

Sam Cooper: Carney Floor Crosser Comes From a Riding Tainted by PRC Interference

Our Chinese-Installed Government In Ottawa

All of our toothless laws go in the same direction.

Behind the hundreds of pages of civil filings reviewed by The Bureau lies a failure of governance as urgent as the unchecked advance of Latin cartels into Canadian cities — and as lethal as the synthetic opioids tied to the Surrey home.

British Columbia has been chasing the same house, and the same alleged transnational traffickers, through raids, affidavits and Charter of Rights battles since before fentanyl became a household word — and still has not managed to take the keys away.

The case documents explicitly point to a criminal-defence-friendly Supreme Court of Canada ruling — Stinchcombe, notoriously cited by police leaders — and to its role in undermining numerous major prosecutions involving networks tied to alleged narcoterror suspect Ryan Wedding and modern Canadian fentanyl-lab operators. One of those networks is the Wolfpack, a hybrid of Mexican cartels, Middle Eastern threat networks and biker gangs said to be supplied by Chinese Communist Party–linked criminal organizations and other Latin American cartel interests.

China’s Chew Toy

Sam Cooper- From Illegal ‘Police Stations’ to Rolling Consulates: Beijing’s New Interference Tactic Expands Beyond Major Cities on Canadian Soil

…a sweeping new investigation has revealed that Chinese diplomats in Canada have intensified and extended these missions — quietly staging more than 100 quickly mounted and dismantled “pop-up” consular events in 22 cities across 11 provinces since 2015, operating out of small, unofficial sites rather than accredited consulates.

Deranged Dominion or Banana Republic?

A good read.

The Bureau- Carney’s Floor-Crossing Campaign. A Media-Staged Bid for Majority Rule That Erodes Democracy While Beijing Hovers

The fallout was already clear to see last week. And it doesn’t look good for Canadian democracy or Canadian media, which receives significant government subsidies. Even at surface level, the press corps was visibly distracted from its first duty to citizens: scrutinizing a historically large budget packed with nation-building promises and unanswered questions about feasibility. Veteran reporters have already acknowledged this.

Exhibit 34

Exhibit 32

“Minority Report”

Sam Cooper- “Fear or Freedom”: U.S. Lawmakers Warn CCP’s Digital Authoritarianism Is Going Global

Beijing’s one-party rule, enforced through “social stability maintenance” and mass data collection, is now being grafted onto global systems of communication, finance, and infrastructure. “What the CCP is doing will not stay confined within the PRC’s borders,” the report warns. “Its authoritarian practices are spreading outward, shaping a world increasingly hostile to America’s values and strategic interests.”

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