Or some tiny, ineffectual statelet whose name we scarcely know having a bit of geopolitical fun.
It was the cruel, duplicitous, secretive, dictatorship of Communist China — of all the great powers of the world, the cruellest, the most duplicitous. According to the solid reporting of the Globe and Mail and Global news, Canadians know that the government of Communist China sought to leverage the Canadian election to favour the Trudeau Liberals.
With public trust evaporating, an arm’s-length inquiry into foreign interference in Canadian elections might be the only thing that could save the integrity of our electoral system and Justin Trudeau’s political skin.
Such an inquiry could help protect future elections from outside interference. For the Prime Minister, it could smother the political fire over his passivity in the face of Chinese efforts to influence the 2021 vote.
There is something about this affair that seems to bother Mr. Trudeau in a way most things don’t. His responses to questions about electoral interference have taken the form of ad hominem attacks against the press and those who are leaking information to it.
How a ‘supremacist’ political ideology from India is said to be gaining influence in Canada
A new report purports to shine a light on how a Hindu nationalist movement has become entrenched in influential circles in the Indian diaspora in Canada and how politicians at all levels have been drawn into its sphere.
The report, commissioned by the National Council of Canadian Muslims and the World Sikh Organization, focuses on the operations of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, a paramilitary volunteer organization. The RSS is based in India, but has a flourishing global network.
Supporters of the RSS adhere to an ideology known as Hindutva, which espouses the idea of India as a Hindu-first nation. The report points out that the founders of the RSS admired Nazi Germany’s attempts to “keep up the purity of race and culture.”
Great. Just what this country needs. And no one should trust a word from the NCCM. Former home of Trudeau’s Islamist GF.
Canada’s democracy is under attack. Here’s where the threats are coming from
OTTAWA—Canada’s federal election in 2021 saw a “surge” in disruptive behaviour not just by foreign players, but by domestic actors too, a new report has concluded.
Morris Rosenberg, a former senior civil servant, reviewed the way Canada monitored interference during the last election and he is urging the government to expand when legal authorities track and disclose interference to better cover the months before an election campaign actually begins.
That guy who threw some Pebbles is way worser than Justin and the LPC being ChiCom assets according to The Star.
Whatever happened in 2019 and 2021, China has succeeded in starting a political frenzy
… There is certainly a need for seriousness at this moment. Because whatever China tried to do, it has succeeded in triggering a political and media feeding frenzy that threatens to do some real damage to Canadian democracy, regardless of what the truth might be.
Where would we be without the steady hand of the CBC? Why we’d be speaking mandarin!
Diversity, we are told monotonously, is what unites us in Canada. And it is good up to a point, indeed vital. But a society that is not united around certain principles, for instance that foreign tyrants subverting our elections is intolerable, will neither survive nor deserve to. So are we?
I see an ominous divide here. On one side are those, generally not fans of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who think his efforts to shrug off very specific intelligence agency warnings are failing before our very eyes. And on the other are those, including many Liberal partisans, who dismiss, mock, and even smear these warnings as racist.
The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board holds investments in ByteDance, the Chinese company whose TikTok video-sharing app was just banned on government-issued devices by Ottawa due to security concerns.
The pension board currently lists ByteDance under its holdings in the “Private Equity Asia” category on its website.
The Trudeau government has made transport electrification a shining star of industrial policy. Not only is Ottawa willing to pick and choose the technologies of the future, its ready to pick and choose the subsidiary activities needed to bring those electric dreams into reality.
OTTAWA — Opposition parties are set to propose a motion Wednesday calling on the Trudeau government to establish a public inquiry into foreign interference in recent federal elections, the National Post has learned.
Several media reports over the last few weeks, citing government intelligence sources, have suggested there was a dedicated effort by the Chinese government to interfere in the 2019 and 2021 federal elections.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s reaction to news reports that China’s Communist regime has meddled in the last three Canadian elections (2019 and 2021, in particular) reminds me of his reaction to reports that he bullied former Justice Minister Jody Wilson-Raybould during the SNC-Lavalin scandal.
If China’s goal when it interfered in the last general election was to reduce public trust in Canadian democracy, increase polarization and weaken confidence in our political leaders, Beijing must be absolutely bloody delighted with the results.
… What we don’t know is the extent of the Liberal Party of Canada’s collusion with that intervention, if there was any at all. One security source suggested to me that the Liberals were “co-conspirators” in this affair and that is where any further investigation must look.
I suspect the Liberal party turned a blind eye at the very least.
It is genuinely embarrassing that Canada has been made a Banana Republic by Junior and his handlers.
Trudeau Foundation returning $200K to Beijing-linked donor
The Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation is returning a donation worth thousands of dollars made by an adviser to the Chinese government.
In 2016, Zhang Bin, a wealthy Chinese businessman and adviser to the Chinese government, made a donation to the foundation worth $200,000.
A story published by the Globe and Mail on Tuesday suggests that Canadian security officials linked that donation back to the Chinese government.
Late and lame Junior, it changes nothing you’re still a turncoat.
A group of Republican lawmakers say it’s time to protect the border. No, not that border. The other one, north of the United States. The one many Americans forget.
Their focus: the frontier with Canada.
That northern border usually is an afterthought in American politics, comfortably ensconced on the back burner of the country’s searing debates about the Mexican border.
A majority of Canadians believe China attempted to interfere in recent federal elections and want to see stronger measures to prevent foreign meddling, a new poll suggests, adding to the growing calls for Ottawa to take action.
The new poll from the Angus Reid Institute, released Wednesday, also found 53 per cent of those surveyed believe the Liberal government has not been strong enough in responding to China’s alleged interference attempts, and even more (64 per cent) want more focus on national security and defence.
OTTAWA – China’s embassy in Ottawa is denying reports of attempted election interference in Canada, saying the claims are “baseless and defamatory” and harm diplomatic relations.
The Liberal government has come under pressure in recent weeks to explain what Canada is doing about allegations of Chinese meddling in the last two federal elections, after they were spelled out in anonymous leaks to the media from security sources.
“China has always been firmly against any attempts to interfere in other countries’ domestic affairs,” reads a statement the embassy emailed to The Canadian Press.
The politically connected Chinese donors who pledged $1-million to the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation and the University of Montreal did not only want to build a statue of the former prime minister.
They also sought to erect a statue at the university’s law school of chairman Mao Zedong, the Chinese leader who brought his country under Communist control and, in his decades as the Great Helmsman, oversaw policies that led to huge numbers of deaths from famine and violence.
“They suggested one of Trudeau and Mao together,” Geneviève O’Meara, a spokesperson for the University of Montreal, confirmed to The Globe and Mail.
