Category: Chinada

Show Of Farce

Chinada 9 Comments

Western Producer;

Fraud and breach of trust charges against a former Agriculture Canada researcher at the research centre in Swift Current, Sask., have been stayed.

Yantai Gan was to go to trial May 1, but a King’s Bench judge ruled earlier this year that the matter was taking too long.

Federal prosecutor Wade McBride said the Supreme Court of Canada’s Jordan decision established timelines to get matters to trial. For provincial court, the limit is 18 months and for King’s Bench it must be heard within 30 months.

“We argued all sorts of points as to where portions of the delay (occurred),” McBride said.

“In the end the trial judge found that to the end of the trial would be 30 months and two weeks, so we would be two weeks past that Jordan absolute limitation.” […]

Gan, now 67, was charged in November 2019 after a 21-month investigation by RCMP.

He allegedly worked for Gansu Agricultural University in China while also working for the federal government.

Court documents alleged the offences occurred between Jan. 1, 2012, and June 30, 2018. They said Gan entered into an unauthorized contractual arrangement with the university, failed to disclose the relationship and the remuneration he received, and that he recruited for, or organized, an international research collaboration for the university.

The arrest was kept secret for two years.

The greatest victory is that which requires no battle: “He told MPs that Mounties nevertheless parked police vehicles in front of the four suspected illegal police stations to show their presence”

h/t JM

Our Chinese-Installed Government In Ottawa

CBC Chinada Shiny Pony 11 Comments

“The Trudeau Foundation built such a latticework of high-level contacts that seemingly half of Ottawa is either an official member, has been on the payroll, has acted as one of its official “mentors” or has benefited from its largesse”

Laura Love – Is it just me or does Journalist @ChantalHbert having any or an opinion on the Trudeau Foundation scandal at odds with the fact that she was named an “official” mentor of the same foundation in 2011!?

Our Chinese Installed Government In Ottawa

Chinada Shiny Pony 28 Comments

That’s quite the handshake.


Related.

Our Chinese-Installed Government In Ottawa

Chinada Shiny Pony The Libranos 61 Comments

(Bumped for more).

Sam Cooper;

More emerging on the upheaval at Trudeau Foundation. La Presse citing sources alleging conflict of interest and lack of transparency from Foundation members that accepted massive PRC-linked cheque, now turns out name on it doesn’t look legitimate. La Presse cites internal Trudeau Foundation review.

As this story evolves, the perception issues surrounding the Special Rapporteur’s prior links to this Trudeau family foundation won’t help the argument that he is totally distant from entities subject of PRC interference efforts

Update: The Globe & Mail lays out the full stink in English: Un-returnable Chinese donation triggered governance crisis at Trudeau foundation

The taxpayer-backed Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation was plunged into crisis in March, several weeks after the Globe and Mail reported that a major 2016 donation ultimately came from the Chinese state rather than a Beijing billionaire, according to an internal document obtained by La Presse.

Shortly after the Globe story broke, the foundation publicly announced it would return $140,000 to the Chinese benefactor.

But the document says problems cropped up when the foundation began preparations to send back the money.

The foundation’s board was alerted that the name on the reimbursement cheque to return the Chinese donation would not be the name of the real donor.

This stalled plans to return the cheque because the name of the true donor, according to the document, did not appear anywhere on the accounting books of the foundation, La Presse reported. It said such a reimbursement would therefore have been unlawful, according to the internal foundation document.

The Montreal newspaper reported that eight members of the foundation board, who were not directors at the time the donation was received in 2016, then demanded that an independent investigation be carried out. They asked those longer-serving members of the board to recuse themselves from any discussion of the matter because they were in a conflict of interest.

One source told La Presse the Chinese donation ultimately turned out to be a “stink bomb” that led to an internal crisis of governance at the foundation.

The newspaper also reported that members of the board of directors even considered asking the office of the federal auditor general to investigate the matter.

These revelations come after the head of the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation and its board of directors resigned Tuesday, blaming the political backlash that followed a revelation that the true benefactor behind a large financial gift from a Beijing billionaire was the Chinese government.

The foundation announced in early March that it planned to return $140,000 to the wealthy Chinese donor after The Globe and Mail reported that the contribution was part of a Beijing-directed influence operation to curry favour with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau…

BOOM.

Our Chinese-Installed Government In Ottawa

Basic Dictatorship Chinada Shiny Pony 27 Comments

Succinct: I never heard about the Chinese Communist Party pouring donations into the Canadian Kidney Foundation or the Special Olympics. It seems the only charity they were interested in was the Trudeau Foundation. I wonder why?

Our Chinese-Installed Government In Ottawa

Chinada Shiny Pony The Libranos 43 Comments

Statement from the Trudeau Foundation

Montreal, April 11, 2023 – In recent weeks, the political climate surrounding a donation received by the Foundation in 2016 has put a great deal of pressure on the Foundation’s management and volunteer Board of Directors, as well as on our staff and our community.

The Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation is an independent, non-partisan scholarship organization created with broad support in the House of Commons in 2002.

The circumstances created by the politicization of the Foundation have made it impossible to continue with the status quo, and the volunteer Board of Directors has resigned, as has the President and CEO.

Three directors have agreed to remain on an interim basis so that the Foundation can continue to meet its obligations pending Board renewal, including towards its Scholars, Mentors and Fellows.

We would like to thank Pascale Fournier for her work as President and CEO over the past five years, as well as all the members of the Board of Directors.

h/t Adam

Our Chinese-Installed Government In Ottawa

Basic Dictatorship Chinada CPC Leadership 37 Comments

‘Liberals in trouble’ sayeth the pollsters.

China’s attempts to meddle in Canadian elections is dragging Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberals down in the court of public opinion, and if the hemorrhaging of support does not stop, it could mean serious trouble for the government in the next election, say pollsters.

“The interference issue has long legs, and that there’s some twist and turn in the narrative,” said Nik Nanos, chief data scientist for Nanos Research, in an interview with The Hill Times. “The Liberals should be quite concerned because what they have to worry about is that the current Conservative advantage consolidates and the longer that the numbers stay here, it becomes the new normal, and it will require more effort to dislodge the trend line.”

According to last week’s rolling poll by Nanos Research, the Conservatives were leading the pack with the support of 35.7 per cent of Canadians, followed by the Liberals with 28.3 per cent. The New Democratic Party was at 19.4 per cent, the Greens at 5.1 per cent, and the People’s Party of Canada at 4.1 per cent.

Our Chinese-Installed Government In Ottawa

Basic Dictatorship Chinada Shiny Pony 19 Comments

CBC;

The National Security and Intelligence Committee of Parliamentarians (NSICOP) and the National Security and Intelligence Review Agency (NSIRA) are not allowed to review cabinet documents.

The agency that safeguards those records — the Privy Council Office (PCO) — will not guarantee that either agency will get an exemption from that rule for the foreign interference probe.

NSICOP wrote to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau last fall to complain that its previous investigations into intelligence matters were hamstrung by the lack of access to cabinet documents.

A former clerk of the Privy Council said that in this case, it’s more important for NSIRA to see cabinet records with appropriate safeguards because it’s looking at the flow of information to decision-makers.

In setting up the framework for the reviews on March 6, 2023, Trudeau said he spoke with the heads of NSICOP and NSIRA and “underscored that Canadians need to have faith in their institutions and deserve answers and transparency.”

The work of both committees is crucial to the work of the special rapporteur on election interference — former governor general David Johnston. He’s expected to advise the Liberal government on its next steps in response to the political controversy that has shaken public trust in the integrity of Canada’s electoral system.

Related: Some 52% of respondents said a preliminary investigation of the allegations by former Governor General David Johnston was sincere, while 48% thought it was a cover-up

Our Chinese-Installed Government In Ottawa

Chinada 16 Comments

Two Canadian politicians promised in a letter to the Chinese government to support “the great motherland”…

Canadian Senator Victor Oh (胡子修) and Ontario former MPP and current deputy-mayor of Markham Michael Chan (陈国治) signed their names in a letter to a Chinese local government, pledging their continued support to the “great motherland”, according to a Chinese-language website in Canada.

As reported by CCmedia.news, the letter was written on April 10, 2020, during the Covid-19 pandemic as a reply to a sympathy letter (‘sympathy letter’) from two governmental officials in P.R. China’s Jiangsu Province (江苏省) two weeks earlier (on March 27, 2020).

The reply letter (‘reply letter’) was written on behalf of all the members of the Jiangsu Commerce Council of Canada (JCCC,加拿大江苏国际商会), a non-profit in Canada where Victor Oh and Michael Chan serve as honorary chairmen.

Thus, there are two letters involved here: the sympathy letter from the Chinese government to the JCCC; and the reply letter from the JCCC to the Chinese government. Below are the summary of the sympathy letter and the English translation of the full text of the reply letter. The translation was achieved by DeepL Translator and Google Lens with minor editing.

More Pavilions At Folkfest

Chinada More Pavilions At Folkfest Shiny Pony 14 Comments

Canada Quietly Rolled Back Parts of Its Foreign Buyer Ban After Just 86 Days

Canada’s foreign buyer ban has been in effect for hours, so it’s time to start loosening it, no? Just 86 days after passing restrictions on non-resident buyers, the country has quietly loosened restrictions for non-resident investors, and temporary residents. Most likely because the ban was largely just a distraction from the speculation coming from inside the House.

More at TNC;

The news comes as several voices say Canada needs to increase its housing supply – both to deal with affordability issues, and to cope with high immigration projections.

Last year, the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation said more than 22 million housing units are needed by 2030 to help most Canadians reach a price point they can afford.

750,000 housing units were built in the last decade, so sure.

Claws Of The Panda

Chinada Claws of the Panda 23 Comments

How Communist China Does Your Thinking for You

Chinese psychological warfare is sometimes so successful that its targets seem to have battered spouse syndrome—excusing away PRC actions that are in fact harmful, and even blaming themselves for having caused it. Former assistant secretary of defense Professor Joseph Nye typified that approach in his 2013 New York Times article “Work With China, Don’t Contain It”: “When I worked on the Pentagon’s East Asia strategy in 1994, during the Clinton administration, we rejected the idea of containment for two reasons. If we treated China as an enemy, we were guaranteeing a future enemy. If we treated China as a friend, we kept open the possibility of a more peaceful future.”

Internalize this idea, and it’s easy to convince yourself that if China is acting like an enemy, it must be something America is doing wrong. This approach is still common currency among the so-called China Hands—that tight-knit and self-protecting coterie of China whisperers who try to ensure they are the only ones deemed worthy to explain China.

Proudly powered by WordPress & Skyrocket Themes

MENU

Navigation