“We know from the documents that China is bragging about defeating these candidates…”
Canada-China:
Globe and Mail reports China tried to influence Canada's 2021 federal election to secure a Liberal minority government
Chinese diplomatic staff boasted about defeating Conservative candidates@RobertFife is the G&M Ottawa Bureau Chiefhttps://t.co/ti63Jw0Q1s pic.twitter.com/y2jhkweDmt
— Natasha Fatah (@NatashaFatah) February 18, 2023
From here on forward, I suggest you all refer to the Trudeau Liberals as “the Chinese-installed government in Ottawa”.
A thread by Walied Soliman, Erin O’Toole’s campaign co-chair.
I can confirm that after extensive security clearances and multiple meetings with our security establishment in Ottawa, these specific threats to our democracy were *never* raised, despite what is now clear evidence of tampering by China in the 2019 election.
What’s worse: our party was seeing clear signs of tampering in ridings with substantial Chinese diasporas. We made the conscious decision to work through the Task Force and appropriate security channels. Our concerns were never taken seriously.
After the election and before the new government was sworn in, we spent more time providing everything we had to the Task Force and appropriate security channels. We were met with shrugged shoulders and complete ambivalence. It was truly unreal.
It wasn’t unreal. It was deliberate.
Globe & Mail; CSIS documents reveal Chinese strategy to influence 2021 election
China employed a sophisticated strategy to disrupt Canada’s democracy in the 2021 federal election campaign as Chinese diplomats and their proxies backed the re-election of Justin Trudeau’s Liberals – but only to another minority government – and worked to defeat Conservative politicians considered to be unfriendly to Beijing.
The full extent of the Chinese interference operation is laid bare in both secret and top-secret Canadian Security Intelligence Service documents viewed by The Globe and Mail that cover the period before and after the September, 2021, election that returned the Liberals to office.
The CSIS reports were shared among senior government officials and Canada’s Five Eyes intelligence allies of the United States, Britain, Australia and New Zealand. Some of this intelligence was also shared with French and German spy services.
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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and senior aides were warned on at least two occasions that government MPs should be cautious in their political dealings with former Ontario Liberal cabinet minister Michael Chan because of alleged ties to China’s consulate in Toronto, national-security sources say.
The Canadian Security Intelligence Service has a dossier on Mr. Chan that contains information on his activities in the 2019 and 2021 federal election campaigns and meetings with suspected Chinese intelligence operatives, according to the two security sources. The Globe and Mail is not identifying the sources, who risk prosecution under the Security of Information Act.
Mr. Chan, now deputy mayor of the city of Markham, told The Globe that he is a loyal Canadian and accused CSIS of character assassination, saying they never once interviewed him about his alleged involvement with the Chinese consulate.
“Your own statement to me about a recent briefing by CSIS to Prime Minister Trudeau, serves only to ignite xenophobia and cause continued, unwarranted and irreparable damage to my reputation and the safety of my family,” he said.
He added: “CSIS has never interviewed me regarding their false and unsubstantiated allegations. However, I am aware that they have conducted intimidating interviews with my friends and acquaintances and then instructed them to keep their mouths shut.”
Mr. Chan, 71, was elected as a regional councillor in Markham’s Oct. 24 election last year and, as the councillor with the most votes, he also became deputy mayor. In 2018, he retired from provincial politics, where his last post was minister of international trade for Kathleen Wynne’s Liberal government. He has been a key organizer and fundraiser in Ontario’s Chinese-Canadian communities for the federal and provincial Liberal parties.
CSIS has observed Mr. Chan meeting in the past years with Chinese diplomat Zhao Wei, whom one source describes as a “suspected intelligence actor,” and Beijing’s former vice-consul-general Zhuang Yaodong. CSIS believes Mr. Zhuang handled security files out of the Toronto consulate, the source said. Mr. Zhao’s code-name for Mr. Chan is “The Minister,” the source said.
In 2019, Mr. Chan had a number of meetings with Mr. Zhao that were described in a CSIS 2020 briefing package as “clandestine in nature” and were allegedly election-related, the source said. In that same year, CSIS observed Mr. Chan and an associate meeting with Mr. Zhao and Mr. Zhuang at a Chinese restaurant.
Mr. Chan said in his statement to The Globe that his meetings with Chinese consular officials are not unusual for politicians. He also said that he met frequently with consular officials from many Asian and Southeast Asian countries in 2019 relating to business activities abroad.
Someone at CSIS really, really doesn’t like Dear Leader.
Related @AndrewScheidl – So the PRC Consul in Toronto threw his weight behind at least one of Mary Ng’s election campaigns. And the CCP-echoing Chan was deployed to chair her campaign in more than one election.
This Mary Ng, of course: Trade Minister Mary Ng will not repay the cost of contracts improperly awarded to a personal friend and CBC pundit. The payments for media coaching were the equivalent of more than $2,800 an hour
So, I guess we know who two of the eleven are.
RCMP sent ‘disruption’ to Chinese police stations in Canada, Lucki tells MPs
How frustrating it must be for the regime in Beijing to have the technology to track every Chinese citizen under a social credit scheme — yet remain stymied in their efforts to curb these dastardly criminals.
– Australian Federal Police have charged nine people after smashing an alleged Chinese-Australian money laundering syndicate.
– The group allegedly moved an estimated $10 billion out of Australia while amassing a blue-chip property portfolio in Sydney.
– Police have seized properties and luxury assets worth at least $150 million.
– Two of the charged suspects are alleged Chinese-Australian gangsters in Sydney, with a combined personal fortune estimated at more than $1 billion.
– The pair are accused of accumulating wealth by becoming the Australian-based bankers of choice for international drug cartels and wealthy Chinese nationals seeking to circumvent China’s capital-flight laws.
Federal agents have dismantled an alleged Chinese-Australian money laundering organisation that moved an estimated $10 billion offshore while amassing a blue-chip property portfolio comprising Sydney mansions, a luxury city building and hundreds of acres of land near Sydney’s second airport.
On Wednesday, Australian Federal Police officers seized properties and luxury assets worth at least $150 million and arrested and charged nine suspects, including two alleged Chinese-Australian gangsters in Sydney with a combined personal fortune estimated at more than $1 billion.
The arrests bring to an end a property-buying spree that one official source said included land purchased for a new Sydney suburb owned and developed by Chinese organised crime near Sydney’s new international airport.
The landmark AFP operation uncovered an industrial-scale shadow-banking organisation that stretched from Australia to Asia, the Caribbean, Switzerland, America and the United Arab Emirates, and which facilitated the purchase of Australian real estate that police sources suggest might be worth billions. The syndicate, alleged to be responsible for the money laundering, was deemed to be such a risk to the national interest it was designated an Australian Priority Organisation Target by the Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission last year.
The AFP operation, and the fact that the organisation targeted is just one of several large money-laundering syndicates operating in Australia, will raise fresh questions about the role of foreign funds in inflating the nation’s property market and other legislative and policy gaps in the financial and migration systems that continue to be exploited by criminals.
Police have also seized cryptocurrency and are examining how the syndicate used crypto exchanges to transfer tainted funds around the world without drawing the attention of authorities, according to confidential sources with knowledge of the investigation.
AFP address the media following international money laundering arrests.
Hey, remember that report about the 11 Canadian politicians compromised by Chinese funding? The one that just sorta went away?
Via Sam Cooper, who soldiers on doing the lonely work of real journalism.
Related: “That balloon should have been blown sky high the minute that it crossed US airspace.”
Vancouver Sun, Nov.20, 2022 – Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Sunday he has never been briefed that any candidates in the 2019 federal election may have been influenced by financing from the Chinese government.
Global News, Dec 13, 2022 – These CSIS investigations were summarized in memos and briefs that started in January 2022, Global reported last month, and intelligence sources said they contained an allegation that China’s Toronto consulate covertly funded an interference network that included political staffers and at least 11 election candidates. Those sources also said that this information was provided to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and several ministers.
Just Trudeau, Dec.14, 22 – “We have obviously been aware for a long time that foreign interference is a real thing.”
No wonder Singh is looking for an escape route.
Global News has learned the February 2020 secret PCO national security memo refers to at least 11 candidates targeted by China, only in the GREATER TORONTO AREA. Intelligence sources say this suggests PRC elxn interference well above only 11 candidates, if Canada-wide considered. https://t.co/VWYf4IMI5G
— Sam Cooper (@scoopercooper) December 13, 2022
Let’s play bury the lede.
RCMP foreign interference investigators visit B.C. friendship society;
The RCMP’s Integrated National Security Enforcement Team conducted interviews at the Wenzhou Friendship Society and in the surrounding neighbourhood.
At least a half-dozen officers canvassed the area.
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The Globe and Mail has reported that in 2016, the Wenzhou society’s Miaofei Pan hosted Prime Minister Justin Trudeau at a private gathering at Pan’s West Vancouver mansion.
Pan offered pro-Beijing businessmen an intimate opportunity to rub shoulders with Trudeau, allegedly in exchange for political donations…
Sam Cooper soldiers on alone…
The federal government awarded a contract to provide and maintain RCMP communications equipment to a company with ties to the Chinese government, Radio-Canada has learned.
The contract has security experts raising concerns about potential Chinese access to RCMP communications and data.
On October 6, 2021, the federal government awarded Sinclair Technologies a contract worth $549,637 for a radio frequency (RF) filtering system. One of the system’s purposes is to protect the RCMP’s land-based radio communications from eavesdropping.
While Sinclair Technologies is based in Ontario, the company has been controlled by Hytera Communications of Shenzen, China since 2017, when Hytera purchased Norsat International, Sinclair’s parent company.
Tom Korski on John Gormley Live: For the first time in the history of the National Press Building a report was evicted from the Parliamentary Press Gallery by armed police Tom Korski, the managing editor for Blacklock’s Reporter in Ottawa was that member of the press to be removed and joins Gormley to discuss what happened.
Interview portion begins a couple of minutes in.
We’re number one!
New, from me, at The Brownstone Institute.
“As a result of the Trudeau Liberals’ governance, Canada now holds the unenviable position of being one of the world leaders not just in economic decline but also in complete moral decrepitude and decay.”
Trudeau now claims to have confronted Xi Jinping on the basis of… fake news.
Nov 15 – "Trudeau raises ‘serious concerns’ about Chinese interference in talks with Xi"
Nov 18 – "Trudeau was right to confront Xi over electoral interference"
Nov 20 – "No intelligence briefing happened on Chinese interference in election: Trudeau"
— Dean Skoreyko (@bcbluecon) November 20, 2022
Related: Let me fix that cartoon for you.
Update: Global’s Sam Cooper is calling Trudeau a liar.
Sources with knowledge of the sensitive memos said the Prime Minister was briefed along with some cabinet members.
— Sam Cooper (@scoopercooper) November 20, 2022
Good work by Global News;
A prominent businessman in Toronto’s Chinese community is the subject of two separate investigations involving foreign interference, sources tell Global News, both related to a series of briefings and memos that Canadian security officials allegedly gave to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau beginning in January.
The Canadian Security Intelligence Service has investigated Wei Chengyi for his alleged role in a covert scheme that facilitated large-fund transfers meant to advance Beijing’s interests in Canada’s 2019 federal election, sources said.
According to RCMP sources, national security investigators are also probing Wei for possible links to several properties in Toronto and Vancouver allegedly used as so-called Chinese government “police stations,” which are believed to secretly host agents from China’s Ministry of Public Security (MPS.)
The owner of the Ontario and British Columbia supermarket chain Foody Mart, Wei is also “permanent honorary chairman” of the Confederation of Toronto Chinese Canadian Organizations (CTCCO), a local umbrella group for dozens of associations that promotes ties to Beijing and consular officials.
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Global News reported last week that early this year, sources say Canadian intelligence officials started briefing Justin Trudeau and several cabinet ministers that the People’s Republic of China has allegedly been targeting Canada with a vast campaign of foreign interference, including attempts to influence the 2019 federal election.
One of the specific allegations detailed the funding of a clandestine network that involved at least 11 federal candidates running in the contest, according to Global News sources.
The briefing did not identify the politicians in the running, but Global News independently confirmed through separate sources that members of the alleged network — which sources say include federal campaign staffers — represented both Liberal and Conservative parties.
HAHAHAHAHA.. jokes on us.
Even if allegations regarding Wei’s role as an actor for the Chinese Communist Party are proven to be true, there is no foreign interference law prohibiting him from doing so.
By design.
Related: Wei Chengyi is also an honorary governor of the Mon Sheong Foundation, which manages long term care facilities in Toronto, among other things. They were heavily criticized during the pandemic. Similar to Anbang. Worth looking at investors.
NEW – Xi to Trudeau at G20: Everything discussed yesterday "has been leaked to the paper(s), that’s not appropriate" and "that’s not the way the conversation was conducted."pic.twitter.com/h6kb9sMPfx
— Disclose.tv (@disclosetv) November 16, 2022
If you can’t spin it to Xi, at least spin it for the cameras.
Extended video …Trudeau can barely walk after. Plus, a Telford moment.
Related: What’s the over-under on names being freely and openly dialogued?
Yuesheng Wang, 35, of Candiac, Quebec, allegedly obtained trade secrets “to benefit the People’s Republic of China, to the detriment of Canada’s economic interests,” an RCMP spokesperson said in a press conference on Nov. 14.
“Mr. Wang was charged with espionage for obtaining trade secrets in the course of his duties with Hydro-Québec,” said Insp. David Beaudoin. “This is the first time this charge has been laid in Canada.”
Wang is facing four espionage-related charges, including: obtaining trade secrets, unauthorized use of computer, fraud for obtaining trade secrets, and breach of trust by public officer.
Joe Biden and Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, North America’s one-two punch of Marxism, were filmed happily flouncing around the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) summit in matching Mao starter kit jackets.
Canadian intelligence officials have warned Prime Minister Justin Trudeau that China has allegedly been targeting Canada with a vast campaign of foreign interference, which includes funding a clandestine network of at least 11 federal candidates running in the 2019 election, according to Global News sources.
Delivered to the prime minister and several cabinet members in a series of briefings and memos first presented in January, the allegations included other detailed examples of Beijing’s efforts to further its influence and, in turn, subvert Canada’s democratic process, sources said.
Based on recent information from the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS), those efforts allegedly involve payments through intermediaries to candidates affiliated with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), placing agents into the offices of MPs in order to influence policy, seeking to co-opt and corrupt former Canadian officials to gain leverage in Ottawa, and mounting aggressive campaigns to punish Canadian politicians whom the People’s Republic of China (PRC) views as threats to its interests. […]
The briefings did not identify the 2019 candidates. But the alleged election interference network included members from both the Liberal and Conservative parties, according to sources with knowledge of the briefs.
Multiculturalism, immigration, democracy – Pick any two.
Globe and Mail- Why are Chinese police operating in Canada, while our own government and security services apparently look the other way?
This is an outrage. Chinese police setting up offices in Canada, then “persuading” alleged criminals to return to the motherland to face “justice” – while our own government and security services apparently choose to look the other way – represents a gross violation of Canada’s national sovereignty, international law and the norms of diplomacy. China is extending the grip of its Orwellian police state into this country, with seemingly no worry about being confronted by our own national security agencies.
Blacklocks- Politicians in China’s Pay
MPs, provincial legislators and city councillors are known to be in the pay of foreign agents, a former espionage officer yesterday told the Commons ethics committee. The foreign agents’ source country was not named though cabinet has accused China of clandestine activities: “What we know for sure is we have various foreign countries that succeeded in recruiting elected officials – again, municipal, provincial or federal.”