Attempts by two Liberal MPs to throw cold water on claims the Chinese government intimidated relatives of a member of parliament are part of larger efforts by the party to save face by discrediting the accusations, a Conservative MP said on Friday.
The Liberals are such disgusting slimes.
Lawmakers in Ottawa were shocked this month to learn Chinese intelligence had allegedly targeted the Hong Kong-based family of Michael Chong MP, after he criticized Beijing’s human rights record. But for many Chinese, Hong Kong, Uyghur and Tibetan activists in the diaspora, the news came as no surprise.
Chinese security services have long pressured family members of dissidents living overseas. In some cases, the relatives of diaspora or exile activists have been imprisoned in apparent relation for their work.
It’s simply not believable that no one in the political apparatus on Parliament Hill knew about the report on Michael Chong and China’s threats.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he shared the “best information” he had when he told Canadians a report about a Chinese government plot to target MPs was never shared outside of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service — despite information to the contrary.
But in a news conference Friday, the prime minister refused to answer questions about the source of the communication disconnect in his government.
“I get a briefings regularly from various sources. I’m not going to go into details on that,” he said. “I shared the best information I had at the time both to [Conservative MP Michael] Chong and to Canadians.”
A lawyer representing five Canadians held in a detention camp in northeastern Syria says he’s been given assurances the federal government will repatriate them, but doesn’t know when that will happen.
The two Canadian women and three teenage girls were supposed to board a repatriation flight last month with 14 other Canadians. But they never made it.
The five Canadians went missing for more than 10 days, and later reported being detained and mistreated by their Kurdish guards rather than being transported to the pick-up point at al-Roj camp, according to their lawyers.
Vancouver police have arrested a man who they allege was selling hard drugs out of a mobile trailer in the Downtown Eastside.
The Vancouver Police Department said its organized crime section began investigating after an illicit drug dispensary started operating on Wednesday at the corner of Main And East Cordova streets.
A male suspect is facing charges of selling cocaine, crack, methamphetamine and heroin from the trailer.
I’m reminded of when Toronto drivers were plagued by Squeegee thugs and Olivia Chow suggested we should praise their entrepeneurial spirit.
The Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) 2022 report stated that the People’s Republic of China (PRC) is continuing to engage in espionage against Canadian academic institutions, defence contractors, and civil society organizations.
“As a global leader in research and innovation, Canada is a prime target for the PRC’s intangible technology transfer efforts. China targets research through legal, illegal and other unregulated means in order to augment its science and technology sector,” the report states.
Doug Ford and Justin Trudeau: So far apart and yet so closely connected.
Doug Ford and Pierre Poilievre: So similar in party branding and yet so disconnected in political marketing.
As Ontario’s Progressive Conservative premier, Ford keeps sharing the same stage with Trudeau, the Liberal prime minister — subsidizing the same factories and laughing at each other’s jokes (even at the expense of Poilievre). This isn’t the first time two first ministers from rival political parties have been so close ― Bill Davis and Pierre Trudeau also came together on the Constitution.
Canada’s intelligence service warned Thursday about the “security implications” posed by captured ISIS members the government is bringing home from detention camps in Syria.
In its annual report, the Canadian Security Intelligence Service said extremists returning from abroad might not immediately conduct attacks but “in time” may fundraise and recruit.
China has accused Canada of “slander and defamation” after it said Beijing targeted a member of its parliament and his family.
On Friday, China said the allegation that it attempted to intimidate Conservative MP Michael Chong over his anti-China stance was “nonsense”.
Mr Chong, 51, previously accused China of human rights abuses.
Canada is considering expelling Chinese diplomats over the issue and summoned its ambassador on Thursday.
While the United States recently announced it will end its COVID-19 vaccine requirements for international air travellers and at the Canadian border, The Epoch Times spoke with some Canadians and Americans who expressed deep frustration with the rules being implemented in the first place, vowing not to forget being separated from their loved ones.
“We will never thank a government whose deliberate implementation of discriminatory, baseless mandates, targeted a group whose only threat was the rejection of their false political science narrative,” said Hope Vanbeselaere Marsh, a Manitoba woman who was separated from her husband in Texas in March 2020.
Quebec rights body opens investigation after young girl’s clitoris allegedly removed
And God forbid you give a misbehaving child a swat!
Canada, not unlike much of the United States, was a very different place just a short time ago. Most Canadians used to believe in basic civil liberties. They could watch hockey games without being lectured about radical gender theory by teams donning pride-themed jerseys. Denouncing people for the color of their skin was seen as vicious, not virtuous.
But perhaps the most troubling of all changes to occur in recent years is the country’s open and growing hostility toward Christianity and, in particular, the Catholic faith.
A sentimentalist with terrrorist sympathies.
On October 3, 1980, a bomb went off just outside a synagogue on the rue Copernic in Paris. Several people were killed: a student on a motorbike, an Israeli journalist, a driver, and a caretaker. In addition, 46 people were wounded, many of them seriously. Eventually, over many years, the French authorities, with help from German intelligence as well as Israeli and French agents, tracked down the PFLP operative who left the bomb, a Lebanese sociologist named Hassan Diab. By that time, Diab was living in Canada. With the evidence it had gathered, France asked Canada to extradite Diab in 2008 so he could stand trial. More on this long, and disturbing story, can be found here: “Canada’s Trudeau considers next steps as citizen convicted for Paris synagogue blast,” AFP, April 22, 2023.
CSIS report on MP being targeted by China was sent to PM’s national-security adviser
Contrary to what Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has said, an 2021 intelligence report about an MP being targeted by China was circulated beyond the Canadian Security Intelligence Service and reached the PM’s national-security adviser.
Conservative MP Michael Chong – whose family was being targeted by China – announced in the House of Commons Thursday that Jody Thomas, the national-security adviser, informed him of this in a telephone call.
SHOCKER: MP Michael Chong was told by Trudeau’s own National Security Advisor, Jody Thomas, that the report detailing China’s threats against Chong & his family was circulated beyond CSIS & shared with the Privy Council Office – AKA Trudeau’s department. Trudeau said it wasn’t pic.twitter.com/iCXQMlqR1C
— Brian Lilley (@brianlilley) May 4, 2023
