The majority of Canadians may have gone into ostrich-mode but people around the world are paying attention.
Related: Douglas Murray’s performance at last year’s Monk Debates should be required viewing for all Canadians. h/t RedPop
The majority of Canadians may have gone into ostrich-mode but people around the world are paying attention.
Related: Douglas Murray’s performance at last year’s Monk Debates should be required viewing for all Canadians. h/t RedPop
I repeatedly asked Minister Mendicino why the Libs haven't expelled a single Beijing diplomat involved in election meddling and operating illegal police stations.
He refused to answer.
Despite attacks on our sovereignty & democracy, the Libs continue to go soft on Beijing. pic.twitter.com/l42JcQPRJm
— Michael Cooper, MP (@Cooper4SAE) April 27, 2023
Laura Love: Here’s maybe, partially why he cannot answer your question or expel anyone. He is a long term associate of XiXi Li, who runs two locations that are allegedly CCP “overseas police stations” who are now under investigation by the RCMP. Here is me discovering SinoQuebec two days before the RCMP state in the press that they are investigating her and her two service centers. (Thread).
NEW – Justin Trudeau Rewrites History By Now Saying He Never Forced Anyone To Get Vaccinated
"There are potential side effects in vaccinations. And there are people who've probably gotten very sick from vaccinations…While not forcing anyone to get vaccinated, I chose to make… pic.twitter.com/VQqUqIzVbX
— Chief Nerd (@TheChiefNerd) April 24, 2023
Dear Leader is terribly upset that people are trashing the Trudeau Foundation.
Newly released documents show that a federal government department asked Facebook and Twitter to delete a newspaper article that it felt contained errors — but both social-media giants denied the request.
The request to remove social-media posts that linked to an unspecified Toronto Sun article came from a director of communications on Sept. 27, 2021, according to information prepared by Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada.
Documents say that staff at the Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada, which reports to Parliament through the immigration minister but is otherwise an independent body, believed the article contained “serious errors of fact risking (and) undermining public confidence in the independence of the board as well as the integrity of the refugee determination system.” The board did not respond to questions from The Canadian Press.
The social-media companies ultimately said that they were denying the request because the article wasn’t their original content.
ANGRY: Justin Trudeau lashes out at Conservatives when asked by a reporter about the shock resignation of the entire Trudeau Foundation board. pic.twitter.com/EuN1HCXYP6
— Harrison Faulkner (@Harry__Faulkner) April 11, 2023
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?
‘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.
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
I want a new country.
Will not investigate foreign interference in Vancouver’s 2022 election.
Like a dutiful regional governor.
A federal blacklist of Freedom Convoy sympathizers was emailed to foreign banks with offices from Wall Street to Beijing, records show. The RCMP placed no restrictions on distribution of the blacklist: “Information was shared.”
@rexglacer – How normal is it for Beijing to be on the RCMP speed dial for sharing information?
People actually voted these Liberal MPs into office. She can’t be influenced by the Chinese, because she’s white and Dutch. Meanwhile Dear Leader has appointed former governor general David Johnston to investigate. Expect the loyal bought and paid for media to drop the story now. In a few months Johnston will issue a statement that a public inquiry isn’t needed.
APTN News- Unvaccinated athletes getting notice they can’t compete at Indigenous games
“Allow him to carry on and let his immune system develop. Especially at that age,” he says. “Being if you look at our history as Indigenous people, if you look at the forced sterilization, the history of forced vaccination pushed on our people, we should be learning from our history and what its done to our people in the past.”
Cherie Wong, executive director of Alliance Canada Hong Kong, says the diaspora has been warning about Chinese interference in elections for years – but many are afraid to speak out. pic.twitter.com/BSyx0s7oH4
— Power & Politics (@PnPCBC) March 4, 2023
Full interview here.
Back in the 1990’s Fox News was the only news broadcaster covering Chinagate… 
I’ve been covering Beijing’s influence-peddling rackets in the highest levels of Canadian political, corporate and academic circles for well over a decade now, and I haven’t seen anything quite like this. There’s no way of sugar-coating it.
In recent weeks, Trudeau and Mendicino have gone to such creepy lengths to downplay, dismiss and even cover up the extent of Beijing’s election monkeywrenching that it’s become impossible to paper over a deep rupture that has opened up in the relationship between the Prime Minister’s Office and the senior ranks of the Canadian Security and Intelligence Service.
That rupture will only get deeper now that Trudeau’s response to the revelations about the Chinese Communist Party’s 2021 election-jimmying operation is: CSIS needs to shut the hell up. The Globe’s access to the contents of those CSIS reports is “certainly a sign that security within CSIS needs to be reviewed,” Trudeau said last Friday. “And I’m expecting CSIS to take the issue very seriously.”
This isn’t how a government goes about its professed devotion to “transparency and accountability.” Count on it: the breakdown in the CSIS-PMO relationship is severe enough that intelligence officials are already familiarizing themselves with the “public interest” exemptions in the Security of Information Act – the 1985 successor to the Official Secrets Act. […]
It’s fairly routine for CSIS case officers to complain that the intelligence they procure goes up the line and nothing much seems to come of it. But what’s happening right now is not even close to routine. This is a much bigger deal than the calumny former CSIS director Richard Fadden had to endure back in 2010 after he disclosed that provincial cabinet ministers in B.C. and Ontario had come under Beijing’s sway.
Given the many smoking-gun details in the CSIS files made available to the Globe and Mail, it’s perhaps understandable that the Trudeau cabinet’s efforts to hush everything up has garnered less attention. The collapse in the CSIS-PMO relationship has gone mostly unnoticed. So let’s notice something here, shall we?
Related: Liberal Minister @marcomendicino won’t say if he knew about Foreign Police Stations before it was reported in the media.
“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
They’re totally fine with the squelching of the rights of citizens … as long as the rights are removed from their political enemies.