According to the Blacklock’s Reporter, Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino expects the cabinet’s review of the proposed paid foreign agent registry to take several months.
Senate has a bill for a foreign agent registry sitting there for a year and nothing has been done.
Xi is a busy guy, he just hasn’t had a chance to review the bill.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s appointment of former governor general David Johnston as his “eminent rapporteur” on foreign interference by China in the last two federal elections is a classic “wag the dog” political strategy.
As an opposition MP during the previous Conservative government, Liberal John McCallum travelled often to China, with pro-Beijing non-governmental groups picking up a reported $73,000 of his travel costs.
When McCallum later became ambassador to China under a new Liberal government, his friendly relations with the country seemed to continue.
A Daily Caller News Foundation reporter said Friday that the northern border of the United States was chaos with migration going “both ways.”
“On my northern border trip, I didn’t realize how many people were coming both ways,” DCNF investigative reporter Jennie Taer said on the Timcast podcast on YouTube. “So, what I did while I was down there or up there, is I took a bunch of taxis filled with people from all over the world, they just filled up. People just flocked to them at the airport, at bus stops.”
In his new role as special rapporteur investigating alleged foreign interference, David Johnston will likely take a deep dive into the suburban Toronto riding of Don Valley North.
The riding is emerging as a nexus for alleged meddling by China. It’s represented federally by a Liberal and provincially by the Progressive Conservative party — but what raises eyebrows are their connections to a wealthy supermarket mogul with close ties to the Chinese Consulate in Toronto.
B.C. Premier David Eby wants to meet with Canada’s intelligence agency, saying he is disturbed by secret documents describing Beijing’s efforts to interfere in a Vancouver election, as some of the province’s senior political strategists call for urgent measures to address vulnerabilities in the democratic process.
The Canadian Security Intelligence Service has described efforts by China’s consul-general in Vancouver, Tong Xiaoling, to “groom” someone for the city’s council and, in the 2022 mayoral vote, “get all eligible voters to come out and elect a specific Chinese-Canadian candidate.” The documents do not name any candidate.
Washington is anxious to see Ottawa update North America’s air defence, Canada’s ambassador to the United States says, ahead of the President’s first trip north of the border since taking office.
In an interview Friday, Kirsten Hillman, who is in Ottawa from her usual posting at Canada’s U.S. embassy to prepare for the talks, said air defence will be a key agenda item in Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s meetings next week with President Joe Biden.
Thought we gave it all to Ukraine.
The Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) is calling foreign interference activities by the Chinese government the “greatest strategic threat to national security.”
In a statement provided in French to CBC/Radio-Canada on Friday, a CSIS spokesperson said that this threat comes not from the “Chinese population” but from the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), which is deploying a strategy aimed at “geopolitical gains” on economic, technological, political and military fronts.
“To do so, it uses all the state powers at its disposal to carry out activities that directly threaten the national security and sovereignty of the country,” said the unnamed spokesperson.
I am not a Naval officer. But I am saddened to see Canada once again absent on the world stage while three of our closest allies finalize a security agreement.
If you thought Canada still mattered in the world today, all you needed to do was to watch the trilateral ceremony and press conference by U.S. President Joe Biden, U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese in San Diego on Monday to realize otherwise.
If the future belongs to those who give the next generation reason for hope, as asserted by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, we are on a path to failure.
Young people are dour about the future. Confidence in institutions is on the decline and a significant number believe Canada is on the wrong economic track.
The United States ran a secret probe into national-security threats posed by Chinese overseas operations that drew alarming conclusions about Canada, alleges a new book co-authored by a former RCMP officer.
The book says the project, code-named Operation Dragon Lord, led to an unnerving takeaway: that Beijing’s activities in Canada represented a security threat to the United States.
This investigation wasn’t triggered by recent headlines. It happened in the 1990s. Yet it provides a window into current controversies, argues the soon-to-be-released book The Mosaic Effect: How the Chinese Communist Party Started a Hybrid War in America’s Backyard.
The timeliness of that old episode will be underscored Monday when one of the key intelligence figures of the era testifies before a Canadian parliamentary committee.
The Mosaic Effect How the Chinese Communist Party started a Hybrid War in America’s Backyard
“Immigration fraud provided the key to opening the gate for the (REDACTED) to walk right into America’s backyard over thirty years ago through their neighbors to the North – Canada. There they created a base of operations along the 49th parallel, the line that divides the USA and Canada – the largest undefended border in the world. Then set about methodically building a United Front network of individuals and groups under the influence or control of the CCP. Surreptitiously infiltrating key institutions and eroding political underpinnings. In the words of one undercover American intelligence agent, “Canada has now become one of the pre-eminent security concerns of the U.S. government.”
Now that the CCP has positioned themselves next door to their greatest advisory by infiltrating key institutions and influencing the political landscape in Canada – what’s next?”
Fuck Trudeau. Fuck the China class. Fuck our Political class. Fuck our Corporate class. Fuck the racist Multiculturalists. They declared war on us.
I suspect the Globe leaker is not working alone and Justin’s ouster may in fact be part of larger action by “concerned allies” foreign and domestic to expose & rid the west of China’s agents in advance of a potential conflict.
New Zealand’s Jacinda Ardern, Scotland’s Nicola Sturgeon and our own Justin Trudeau are all considered China’s useful Idiots.
My theory on their demise may be coming true. Time to bid our ChiCom 5th Columnists adieu?
Two down, one to go – New Zealand’s Jacinda Ardern, Scotland’s Nicola Sturgeon And Canada’s Justin Trudeau – What Do They Have In Common?
It needs to be said: Multiculturalism and Diversity have turned Canada into a balkanized nation of 5th Columns. It was deliberate, don’t let the racists call you a liar.
OTTAWA — Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre said his party is pushing once again for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s chief of staff Katie Telford to testify in front of parliamentarians about Chinese’s alleged interference in past elections because she “knows all the secrets.”
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau refused to say Friday if he would make an attempt by Pierre Poilievre‘s Conservatives to force his chief of staff to testify on foreign election interference a matter of confidence.
MP are expected to vote as early as Tuesday on a Conservative-sponsored motion calling on Trudeau’s chief of staff Katie Telford to testify at one or the other of two House of Commons committees investigating allegations of election interference. That vote could test the strength of the deal NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh made last year with Trudeau to support the Liberal minority government on matters of confidence.
Jaggy ain’t gonna give up his meal ticket.
When I joined the public service many years ago, I swore an oath.
Not to party or to person, but to my country, to its democratic institutions and to my fellow Canadians.
When I first became aware of the significance of the threat posed by outside interference to our democratic institutions, I worked – as have many unnamed and tireless colleagues – to equip our leaders with the knowledge and the tools needed to take action against it.
More than 150 Indian students have been told to leave the country by the Canadian Border Security Agency (CBSA), which says they arrived in the country on forged college admission letters.
The students say they were unaware of the forgeries and insist they were duped by their immigration consultation agency in India that provided them the document.
Many who received the eviction letters are now embarrassed to come forward – living in a Western country is seen as a matter of prestige by many Indian families, especially in the state of Punjab where Dimple K is from.
“My mind is dark. I cannot move forward, nor go back,” said Dimple. She has been living in Canada on a student visa since 2017.
