Knuckles rapped: Joly was warned by the CCP in her trip to China that Canada’s probe into “overseas police stations” has harmed China’s CORE INTERESTS, and is seen as damaging to improving bilateral relations. They believe there’s still room for negotiation on the issue.
Our Chinese-Installed Government In Ottawa
Beijing is targeting Canada’s First Nations leaders with intelligence operations based on tourism that are aimed at securing Aboriginal-controlled natural resources, a Top Secret report from Ottawa’s intelligence-review watchdog NSICOP says.
Additionally, Beijing funded a British Columbia provincial candidate and its Consul General in Vancouver took actions to cover up the candidate’s “possible Chinese Communist Party membership,” NSICOP’s June 2019 draft report alleges.
The Bureau exclusively obtained NSICOP’s unredacted, 2019 report on foreign interference, which details China’s pervasive operations to bribe, coerce and co-opt Canadian leaders at all levels of government.[…]
“Many of the same tactics used to target elected officials at the federal level are replicated with provincial, municipal, and indigenous officials,” the June 2019 NSICOP report obtained by The Bureau says.
Canada’s Aboriginal leaders — and the tension between federal and First Nations jurisdictions over natural resources in northern Canada — are an unexplored aspect of the Chinese interference story.
But the 2019 NSICOP report demonstrates crucial national security issues at stake.
It suggests Beijing is seeking clandestine relationships with First Nations leaders under false pretences in order to control Canada’s strategic resources in areas of increasing geopolitical importance.
“In late 2011, China invited a national-level group of Aboriginal leaders to travel to China. A CSIS assessment noted that the invitation was advertised as an opportunity to develop tourism for First Nations,” NSICOP’s report says.
“According to a Minister Counsellor at the PRC Embassy, the tourism opportunity was merely “beipian” (Mandarin for ‘to be fooled’) and that the true intention of the invitation was to pursue Aboriginal-controlled natural resources.”
Our Chinese-Installed Government In Ottawa
Foreign Minister Mélanie Joly’s visit to Beijing last week was built around an understanding of China that’s at least a decade out of date.
The minister and more than a few media analysts lauded the opportunity (the first by a Canadian foreign minister in almost seven years) for “dialogue” with China’s leadership. But dialogue involves a conversation, a shared approach to illuminate or resolve an issue. It’s what happens when senior officials from normal countries meet. But China hasn’t been a normal country since Xi Jinping ascended to paramount leadership in 2013. Xi’s China doesn’t do dialogue. […]
China almost certainly saw the visit in historical terms, as the deference shown to the ruler in Beijing by the emissary of a smaller state. And in this particular case such deference will be understood, unhelpfully, as Canada being invited to apologise face-to-face for daring to complain about China’s behaviour.
And more from Sam Cooper: The Power behind Mélanie Joly’s bow to Beijing
Our Chinese Installed Government In Ottawa
Nice of her to clear that up: “It’s not the government. It’s more Canadians perceptions toward China, which are negative right now.”
Our Chinese-Installed Government In Ottawa
Justin Trudeau’s ongoing refusal to list the Iranian-regime-controlled Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corp as a terrorist organization looks more and more sinister by the day, especially as anti-Semitic, anti-Canadian, anti-Western propaganda is being spread within our nation and our own Citizens are being threatened by the Iranian regime:
And The Budget Will Balance Itself
Because we want rid of him, Blackface Boy-man will burn everything you’ve worked for to the ground.
Home prices are unsustainable and have normalized a “massive increase in value” for retirees, says Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. He made the remarks at a private seminar with Canada’s leading advocates of a home equity tax: ‘It’s not like your grandparents saying, ‘Ah, bread used to cost me a nickel.’
Related: The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board put more than $600 million in China’s electric vehicle sector accused by cabinet of unfair trade practices. Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland blamed Chinese industry for job-killing schemes, telling Canadian workers: “We are going to protect you.”
Nice Pension Plan You’ve Got There
Be a shame if something were to happen to it.
Blacklocks- CPP Invests In Chinese Ev’s
Other Pension Plan holdings include automakers BYD Co. ($116 million), Li Auto Inc. ($69 million) Chongqing Changan Automobile Co. ($26 million) and Nio Inc. ($19 million). Millions more were invested in battery manufacturers and suppliers including Tianqi Lithium Corp. ($13 million), Eve Energy Co. ($7 million) and Ganfeng Lithium Group ($6 million).
Minister Freeland on June 24 named the Chinese sector as predatory and announced a 30-day Customs Tariff review of trade practices in the electric auto market. “Workers and the auto sector currently face unfair competition from China,” said Freeland.
Corruption Inc.
Of 75 Chinese projects related to “upstream emissions reductions” schemes funded indirectly by German consumers, 62 have been revealed as clearly fraudulent, and only one is above suspicion.
They Got Uppity
Blacklocks mistake in going before the Federal Court was not being the Toronto Star.
The judge ruled Blacklock’s terms were “plainly visible” and clearly prohibited password sharing without permission. Blacklock’s even sent the password buyer two written notices with a number to call if they intended to “share or distribute content.” The judge dismissed it as irrelevant.
What passwords does it apply to?
Any kind at all. The rule applies to any ordinary password to websites, newspapers, video and music services, library databases, scientific or technical journals, peer-reviewed periodicals, you name it.
That part will get fixed in no time.
I Want A New Country
Our Chinese-Installed Government In Ottawa
I refer you back to the post title for the answer: Have Canada’s parliamentary ‘traitors’ committed literal treason?
Our Chinese-Installed Government In Ottawa
A clandestine intervention in Canada’s elections is not exactly “interference” if it’s solicited, invited and welcomed, and it’s not precisely “foreign” if the culprits are willing Canadian operatives and proxies in foreign-directed influence campaigns.
This appears to have been the case, NSICOP concludes, in several obliquely-described instances gleaned almost entirely from top-secret reports by the Canadian Security Intelligence Service.
There’s always the Conflict of Interest and Ethics Commissioner and the Senate Ethics Officer that could help Parliamentarians figure out how to reduce their exposure to the shadowy maneuvers of hostile foreign powers, the report observes. But these resources will only work against unwelcome advances.
“Unfortunately, the Committee has also seen troubling intelligence that some Parliamentarians are, in the words of the intelligence services, “semi-witting or witting” participants in the efforts of foreign states to interfere in our politics.”
This is not just about China’s vast United Front Work Department, which by strong-arming and influence-peddling has burrowed deeply into ethnic Chinese political activism, the media, the universities and Canada’s political parties, most notably the Liberal Party. Beijing has also disrupted Conservative party leadership races, the report notes (the United Front was especially determined to unseat Erin O’Toole from the Conservative leadership two years ago).[…]
Like the documents released during the course of Madam Justice Hogue’s hearings in the foreign interference commission proceedings earlier this year, much of the NSICOP report vindicates news reports based on CSIS leaks about Beijing’s monkey-wrenching during the 2019 and 2021 federal elections — reports the Trudeau government was all too willing to dismiss before the evidence became too overpowering to ignore.
“The Committee rejects any notion that the individual or individuals responsible for the leaks acted as patriots or whistleblowers,” the NSICOP report states. “On the other hand, the Committee acknowledges an uncomfortable truth. Prior to the leaks, there was little sense of urgency between elected officials and senior decision-makers to address outstanding gaps to this important and well-documented threat to national security.”
Sam Cooper: I’ve also discussed with @kshahrooz that a notorious LPC MP may appear to be implicated in both PRC and Iran threat networks, and this could be an important convergence to understand geopolitically.
One Flu Out Of The Wuhan Nest
The New York Times joins the conspiracy trail: We’re getting a modified limited hangout* now, but they’re still covering up the worst stuff.
More: Did we really pause gain of function research here?
Related: Never forget the people who were paid millions to promote this madness.
Look, We Need The Help
Blacklocks- Delay China Registry A Year
A bill to unmask paid friends of China and other foreign agents will likely not be in place before the next election, the Commons public safety committee was told yesterday. MPs said the lack of such a law contributed to foreign interference in the 2019 and 2021 campaigns.
Putin & Xi
Sittin’ in a tree…
Chinada Revenue Agency: Fair And Efficient
The CRA confirms that tenants are responsible for withholding 25% of their foreign landlords’ rent and paying it to the CRA — something almost no one was aware of a month ago.
“The Government of Canada continuously reviews the tax system to ensure it is both fair and efficient.”
Clown country: One tenant said his landlord and the CRA both refused to tell him if his landlord was a non-resident
Our Chinese-Installed Government In Ottawa
Sam Cooper Exclusive: Another panty drops.
In a journalistic probe including interviews with numerous Canadian intelligence, law enforcement and diaspora sources, The Bureau has discovered aside from casino crimes at 5 Decourcy, CSIS investigators suspected the gambling haven functioned with Chinese intelligence to capture Canadian politicians in Beijing’s clandestine election-interference networks.
Following YRP’s July 2020 night raid on 5 Decourcy, while detectives pursued illegal casino and weapons charges against 18 suspects, officers also reached out to CSIS investigators with stunning information.
They said that digital video evidence seized from 5 Decourcy’s owner, a politically-connected Toronto real estate developer from China’s Anhui province, revealed that local politicians could have been recorded in compromising sexual acts. […]
According to a senior intelligence source, CSIS’s warrant alleged 5 Decourcy’s owner, 52-year-old Wei Wei, was tied to the Chinese Communist Party through his companies in Anhui, and that he was director of an Anhui-Canada “Friendship Association” started in 2012 in connection to Beijing’s foreign-influence arm, the United Front Work Department.
The warrant document also alleged Wei Wei had ties to a Vancouver community leader investigated by CSIS, the source said, and that another suspect charged in the 5 Decourcy casino raid was the family member of a high-ranking Chinese Military Intelligence official.
The warrant was sent to CSIS headquarters in Ottawa but it languished for months in bureaucratic limbo, three sources said.
They said CSIS’s opportunity to obtain technical evidence from YRP collapsed in early 2021, when illegal gaming and weapons charges against Wei Wei unravelled bizarrely, allowing the mansion casino owner to recover his digital content from YRP.
(They weren’t languishing. Our bureaucratic limbos work late into the night on these cases.)
But The Bureau’s investigation into CSIS’s suspicions at 5 Decourcy Court goes beyond questions of Chinese political activity inside the massive mansion.
An examination of hundreds of federal election campaign documents and Chinese media reports reveals sprawling fundraising networks emanating from a circle of directors in the Canada-Anhui Friendship Association that is named in CSIS’s 5 Decourcy warrant application.
In addition to Wei Wei, these directors include several prominent Liberal Party officials and fundraisers close to Justin Trudeau and his power circle of senior aides and cabinet ministers.
Some of these players are identified by The Bureau in a notorious series of “cash-for-access” meetings and donations that a recent United States congressional report termed a “Chinese state-backed plot to improperly influence then Liberal Party leader Justin Trudeau.”
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No Big Deal
He Admires Their Basic Generosity
Guess how many other Prime Minister autobiography China paid undisclosed sums for republishing rights?
Spy vs Spy
Spectator- The Xi files: how China spies
Most states spy. In principle there’s nothing to stop them. But China’s demand for intelligence on the rest of the world goes far beyond anything western intelligence agencies would typically gather. It encompasses masses of commercial data and intellectual property and has been described by Keith Alexander, a former head of America’s National Security Agency, as ‘the greatest transfer of wealth in history’. As well as collecting data from government websites, parliamentarians, universities, thinktanks and human rights organisations, China also targets diaspora groups and individuals.