A good read.
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.
We sure do make a lot of fentanyl for a country that has no major exports.
Border officials in B.C. seized thousands of litres of chemicals used to produce fentanyl and GHB from two containers shipped to Canada from China.
The Canada Border Services Agency announced the seizure, which happened in May at the Tsawwassen Container Examination Facility, on Thursday.
“which happened in May”
Earlier this year, the RCMP near Swift Current, Saskatchewan, less than 100 miles from the U.S. border, charged two Calgarians with trafficking a massive quantity of fentanyl, enough to kill nearly four million people.
The accused, Kunwardeep Singh and Swati Narula, secured bail from the provincial court nearly three weeks after their arrest. Later, Singh, a truck driver, had his bail conditions relaxed to allow him to resume driving in the Calgary area.
This raised the question of how Singh, caught with such an enormous amount of fentanyl could walk away on just twenty-five thousand dollars bail.
Japan and the U.S. are getting closer than ever. If Canada isn’t part of that, and even in a small way goes closer to China and edges away from US-Japan, it is very seriously misguided and I will leave it at that for now. These next months are very important. https://t.co/PyW7WWqdDx
— Sam Cooper (@scoopercooper) October 28, 2025
I try to find countering data to my long held suspicions that the Canada China Business Council runs the Liberal party, and this includes the idea of considering that Mark Carney might be looking for an off ramp because people say he is so wise. Now this. https://t.co/oj6QkziuC9
— Sam Cooper (@scoopercooper) October 23, 2025
Tyrants have always found the Magna Carta to be reckless…
Pierre Poilievre charges ahead recklessly https://t.co/W0YU4tofuW pic.twitter.com/NXfghcJyDe
— Robert Fife (@RobertFife) October 21, 2025
Pierre Poilievre is by no means the first person to raise concerns about RCMP covering up of Trudeau/Liberal scandals. And it’s not like there is a lack of evidence to take to trial.
But hey, we did get an apology….
Related: Isee everyone got the talking points…
Regulator Admits 2018 Buddhist Land Probe Was Never Completed;
An investigation was launched in early 2016 into the land holdings of several Buddhist-related organizations under section 15 of the Prince Edward Island Lands Protection Act. According to IRAC’s response to legislators, a consultant prepared both an initial and a supplementary report and provided those documents to the investigating officers on a privileged basis. But for reasons not explained by IRAC, the Commission’s investigating officers did not ultimately produce a report, no hearing was held, and no order was issued determining whether the parties under investigation did or did not violate the Act.
The revelations have shocked legislators and residents who for years believed the province had quietly completed — and withheld — the 2018 report. Instead, the correspondence shows that the probe was effectively abandoned without explanation.
HOLY. CRAP – "THE CCP HAS A BEACHHEAD IN P.E.I…. THERE IS ELITE CAPTURE AND CORRUPTION"
According to these ex-finance cops
Prince Edward Island is being TAKEN OVER by the China– "Bliss and Wisdom" having already acquired over 17,000 acres of land! pic.twitter.com/RNrQPn1tY2
— Tablesalt (@Tablesalt13) October 9, 2025
In Ottawa they call it “arm’s-length.” Out in the real world, people call it duck-and-cover. At Meeting No. 6 of the House of Commons transport committee, MPs confronted a simple, damning timeline: Transport Canada’s top non-partisan official was warned six weeks before the public announcement that BC Ferries would award a four-ship contract to a Chinese state-owned yard. Yet the former transport minister, Chrystia Freeland, told Parliament she was “shocked.” Those two facts do not coexist in nature. One is true, or the other is.
There’s an even bigger betrayal hiding in plain sight. In the last election, this Liberal government campaigned on a Canada-first message—jobs here, supply chains here, steel here. And then, when it actually mattered, they watched a billion-dollar ferry order sail to a PRC state yard with no Canadian-content requirement attached to the federal financing. So much for “Canada first.” Turns out it was “Canada… eventually,” after the press release.
Conservatives put the revelation on the record and asked the only question that matters in a democracy: what did the minister know and when did she know it? The documents they cite don’t suggest confusion; they suggest choreography—ministerial staff emailing the Prime Minister’s Office on how to manage the announcement rather than stop the deal that offshored Canadian work to a Chinese state firm.
Follow the money and it gets worse. A federal Crown lender—the Canada Infrastructure Bank—underwrote $1 billion for BC Ferries and attached no Canadian-content requirement to the financing. In plain English: taxpayers took the risk, Beijing got the jobs. The paper trail presented to MPs is smothered in black ink—hundreds of pages of redactions—with one stray breadcrumb: a partially visible BC Hydro analysis suggesting roughly half a billion dollars in B.C. terminal upgrades to make the “green” ferry plan work. You’re not supposed to see that. You almost didn’t.
BREAKING NEWS: Another Liberal Scandal
Chrystia Freeland stood in Parliament dismissing any federal role in BC Ferries’ $1-billion deal with a Chinese state-owned shipyard.
But leaked e-mails show the truth:
1. The Canada Infrastructure Bank (a federal Crown corporation) quietly financed the purchase.
2. Liberal staff scrambled behind the scenes to manage the optics instead of protecting Canadian jobs and security.
3. Even Liberal ministers admitted they were “dismayed” but still went along with it.
Maybe, just maybe, someone in Mark Carney’s office has thought: “Wait a second, all these goods from Amazon, all the crap piled high at Canadian Tire, maybe we should tax the carbon embedded in them, so we can actually build a Canada-first, Canada-strong economy.”
Seems obvious, right? Put tariffs on dirty imports. Level the playing field. Protect Canadian workers.
Nope. Not happening. Elbows down, Ottawa doesn’t tax a single ton of Chinese carbon. Not one. Thats right Beijing carbon heavy manufacturing gets a free ride.
Melanie Joly: The world is moving toward EVs.
Also Melanie Joly: People will only buy EVs if subsidized.
Fentanyl, what fentanyl?
A new civil forfeiture case in British Columbia has surfaced extraordinary details about a clandestine fentanyl production network that investigators say operated with academic-level expertise, imported laboratory equipment from overseas, and, significantly, relied predominantly on 4-Piperidone, a precursor chemical that Chinese suppliers moved to after the U.S. government cracked down on previous analogs.
The Bureau’s analysis of the filing and information from expert sources suggests the network is consistent with the hybrid model now driving the global fentanyl trade: Chinese Communist Party–linked chemical suppliers, Mexican cartel distributors, and Iranian transnational networks partnering with Canadian gangs, notably the Wolfpack Alliance, to embed industrial-scale production inside British Columbia.
Seems like a ton of trouble to go to, just to supply a small Canadian market.
The state-owned trading giant has accelerated moves to secure supplies from Australia, the world’s second largest exporter, following Beijing’s decision last week to impose a temporary duty of 75.8 per cent on shipments from Canada following an anti-dumping probe, said the people, who asked not to be named because they’re not authorized to talk to the media.
China has typically relied on Canada for the bulk of its imports of rapeseed and the meal that’s derived from crushing the crop into a product that’s easily fed to livestock and fish. That trade was already under fire when Beijing slapped hefty tariffs earlier this year on cargoes of rapeseed meal in a tit-for-tat response to Canadian duties on Chinese goods.
The more things stay the same, the more things stay the same.
Why Are We Trading Our Breadbasket for a Battery Pack?
In protecting a shaky electric vehicle dream, Ottawa is putting a $43-billion canola reality at risk — sacrificing a cornerstone of our agricultural economy for a battery pack that may never deliver. […]
The backdrop to all of this is Ottawa’s high-stakes bet on the EV sector. Despite nearly $50 billion in combined federal and provincial investments, Canada’s EV industry is faltering. Sales are dropping, mandates are clashing with market realities, and major projects are delayed or shelved. Without a significant acceleration in charging infrastructure, policy recalibration, and restored investor confidence, the sector risks collapse.
Ottawa’s trade stance is effectively protecting a fragile EV industry at the expense of a robust and profitable canola sector. One is speculative and policy-driven; the other is market-proven and globally competitive. The policy choice here should be obvious: Canada must either adjust its EV tariff position toward China or carve out exemptions to protect agricultural exports. Beijing has made its expectations clear.
Related: Built in 1960, the Second Narrows Bridge was not designed for the volume and weight of modern freight trains, which have grown substantially in size and frequency to meet rising global demand.
Canada must “source domestically for federal contracts,” Public Works Minister Joel Lightbound said yesterday after touring a British Columbia shipyard. He made no mention of outsourcing shipyard jobs to China through a billion-dollar contract currently under investigation by the Commons transport committee: ‘We’re creating a prosperous economy.’
@RealAndyLeeShow – You can import a hundred kilos of synthetic narcotic precursor chemicals as a Chinese scientist working under Xi Jinping’s Thousand Talents plan in Canada and still walk free, but god help you if you tell protestors to remain peacefully in place and to “Hold the line.”
Garry Clement- Official Silence on Medical Waste From PRC-Linked Monasteries Must Be Broken
It’s time to ask some uncomfortable questions: Why have our local and provincial leaders remained largely silent? Why are there no public inquiries into the legality of private medical practices, the source of biomedical waste, or the tax status of such institutions? And why has the community — despite mounting evidence — allowed itself to be sidelined?
Globe and Mail- Let’s free ourselves of the U.S. and forge closer ties with China
To achieve economic sovereignty, Canada must break free from the made-in-Washington narrative that China is an unreliable trading partner bent on world domination. Instead, Canada must forge its own relationship with China – a relationship anchored in Canadian, not U.S., interests.
Sounds like Mark Carney is doing some favours for his Chinese friends.
Canada borrows money to subsidize China, to compete against our own ship-builders.
All while they have 100% tariffs on our canola.
"I will never forget" how McCallum admitted to inviting Beijing to influence the outcome of the 2019 federal election, and had to be fired by Freeland for siding with Beijing in the Meng Wanzhou case. https://t.co/IV9AS8JY2T https://t.co/LLPoIT5zJS
— Terry Glavin 格立文 (@TerryGlavin) June 22, 2025
Canada’s state broadcaster, CBC, is facing diplomatic criticism from Taiwan after issuing a controversial correction to an explosive story regarding Chinese influence via foreign investment in Prince Edward Island—raising new questions about whether Chinese government pressure is compromising Canadian press freedom and influencing media coverage of foreign interference.
On June 14, CBC/Radio-Canada published a report on alleged ties between Bliss and Wisdom, a Buddhist group with growing land holdings on Prince Edward Island, and the Chinese Communist Party’s United Front Work Department. The report—based in part on findings from The Bureau’s contributor Garry Clement—noted deep concerns from PEI residents about the group’s agricultural land acquisitions and its alleged links to Beijing, including its reported advocacy for China’s annexation of Taiwan. […]
But on June 17, CBC issued a correction: “In that story, the reporter said Taiwan is a country that China is threatening to invade. In fact, Taiwan is a self-governing island, and there is dispute around who controls it.” No explanation was provided for the change.
That revision quickly sparked backlash in Taipei. In a statement to Taiwan News, Taiwan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) said it was “regretful and disappointed” to see international media “engage in self-censorship or deliberately avoid using the term ‘country’ to refer to Taiwan due to political pressure from China or concerns about Beijing’s stance.” MOFA reportedly reiterated that Taiwan “is a sovereign and independent country, and is not subordinate to the People’s Republic of China,” and urged foreign media to uphold “objectivity and fairness,” warning that compromise on coverage “undermines the essence of press freedom” and distorts Taiwan’s international status.
CBC did not respond to a request for comment from Taiwan News.
Canada’s leadership can’t help but shoot itself in the foot when it comes to negotiating a new trade deal with the Americans. We continue to cling to a digital services tax that has angered all sides in Washington and Tuesday passed a bill making it illegal to negotiate anything related to supply management.
On Tuesday, the Senate passed Bill C-202, a bill brought forward by the Bloc Quebecois that makes it a law that negotiators at the Department of Foreign Affairs are not allowed to put supply management on the table. That means no negotiations for quotas, prices for quotas or market access to the chicken, egg or dairy sector are allowed as part of any trade deal.
Before we get into why this is such a horrible idea, consider that the sponsor of this bill is Yves-Francois Blanchet, the leader of the Bloc Quebecois. Canada’s trade policy has now been surrendered, handcuffed you might say, by the leader of the party that wants to break up Canada and who claims that Canada is not a real country.
He’s not wrong.
