Canada may still be reeling from a bout of political and diplomatic shock—call it Post-Disruption Stress Disorder (PDSD)—following the April 2 announcement in the Rose Garden by President Trump.
But for both Canada and Mexico, the news was less damaging than feared. Despite the sweeping “Liberation Day” tariffs unveiled that day, our two nations were spared. So were American grocery shoppers.
Despite an eventual resignation, the initial decision by Liberal Leader Mark Carney to back a candidate after learning he had made light of a Chinese government bounty on the head of a Conservative rival has diaspora community advocates on the front lines of the foreign interference threat saying they’ve lost confidence in the party’s commitment to protect them from transnational repression.
Yet, while Paul Chiang, the incumbent Liberal candidate in Markham-Unionville, Ont., eventually announced late on March 31 he would be standing aside so as not to “cause a distraction in this critical moment,” his delayed departure and Carney’s initial confidence have already caused damage.
A fundamental moral principle: You don’t get a s’okay, all forgiven, for a stupendous lapse of judgment.
You don’t get to erase the delinquency only after the conduct breach has become public.
You don’t get to offer a palpably expedient (unsolicited and unaccepted) apology when the wrongdoing is exposed.
And you especially don’t get to do any of that — in an X post at two minutes to midnight, following reports that the RCMP is looking into the matter — when you represent a political party that has been steeped in ethical violations.
OTTAWA — Former Liberal MP Paul Chiang’s decision to take himself off the ballot only proves the Liberal leader instinctually puts his own interests ahead of the country’s, Pierre Poilievre said on Tuesday.
Speaking to reporters from St. John’s, the Conservative leader commented on the news overnight that Chiang, seeking re-election in his riding of Markham-Unionville, announced he would be stepping aside — just hours after Liberal Leader Mark Carney said he saw no issue with the former York Region cop staying on as a candidate.
CTV Alerting Canadians that:
1) The Liberals knew about Chiang since January, and chose not to act on it.
2) 40 international human rights agencies and the RCMP, put pressure on Mark Carney to do the right thing. He still didn’t fire him.
Some Prime Minister. pic.twitter.com/LFnDkcTRWt
— An Oil Exec (@CanadianOilExec) April 2, 2025
Liberal MP Paul Chiang’s announcement that he would step down as a candidate just before midnight Monday shows a massive failure of leadership by Mark Carney.
It took four days for Chiang to be removed as the Liberal candidate in Markham-Unionville and it came after Carney had spent all morning defending him.
WATCH: A few years ago, Sir Lord Mark Carney told Parliament that “it will be important that China is center stage to shape this new, global, sustainable financial system.”
I’m not making this up guys.
This man is a CHINESE-SHILL.pic.twitter.com/kkPc1Lhrt0
— mistersunshinebaby (@mrsunshinebaby) March 31, 2025
Liberal incumbent Paul Chiang will not be running in the ongoing federal election after suggesting earlier this year that people should try to claim a Chinese bounty on a Conservative candidate.
In a statement posted to X late Monday night, Chiang called the federal election “uniquely important,” saying he does “not want there to be distractions in this critical moment.”
h/t Mauser
On Monday morning, Liberal Leader Mark Carney said he had “confidence” in his candidate who, in January, called for his Conservative opponent to be turned over to the Chinese consulate in order to receive a bounty.
Mr. Carney said that Paul Chiang – who at once issued a veiled threat, encouraged foreign interference and trivialized the horrors Beijing has inflicted on dissidents – was a “person of integrity,” noting that he served for decades as a police officer and MP for the riding of Markham-Unionville for the last several years. Mr. Carney said that Mr. Chiang “made a terrible lapse in judgment,” as if he had gotten testy with a waiter at a restaurant, and not that he had suggested his political opponent be kidnapped by a violent and repressive foreign regime.
Liberal candidate in Markham to stay on with party despite ‘deplorable’ comments about former Conservative rival
OTTAWA — Mark Carney’s Liberals say they won’t turf Markham-Unionville candidate Paul Chiang, despite calls for his ouster after it emerged that he told a diaspora media outlet earlier this year how to claim a bounty Hong Kong had placed on a Conservative rival.
“Paul Chiang recognized that he made a significant lapse in judgment. He apologized and has been clear that he will stand shoulder to shoulder with the people of Hong Kong as they fight to safeguard their human rights and freedoms,” a spokesperson from Carney’s campaign told the Star in a statement.
This is so fecked up! The Liberals aren’t even trying to hide their Chicom allegiance.
Calls are mounting for Liberal Leader Mark Carney to fire Toronto-area candidate Paul Chiang, who said people should bring a Conservative politician to the local Chinese consulate to collect a bounty on him for criticizing Beijing’s crackdown on Hong Kong.
NDP candidate Jenny Kwan urged Mr. Carney to drop Mr. Chiang for his comments on Conservative candidate Joe Tay. “He advocated for people to bring him to the Chinese consulate to collect the bounty,” Ms. Kwan told reporters Sunday during a campaign event in Port Moody, B.C. “In what universe is this normal?”
At the end of the pier at the Nanisivik Naval Facility sit three unused jetties.
Ice smothers the remote base for most of the year, encasing its empty helipad, site office and diesel tanks – then melting away as the seasons pass.
When it was commissioned in 2007, Nanisivik was meant to signal Canada’s commitment to protecting its Arctic territories.
A Liberal candidate running for re-election in a battleground GTA riding is apologizing after suggesting people attempt to claim a Chinese bounty on a local Conservative candidate.
Paul Chiang — the Liberal candidate for Markham-Unionville — suggested during a local Chinese-language media news conference in January that people should claim the bounty on Joe Tay — currently running for the Conservatives in the Toronto riding of Don Valley North.
“To everyone here, you can claim the one-million-dollar bounty if you bring him to Toronto’s Chinese consulate,” Chiang said, according to the Toronto Association for Democracy in China (TADC).
A normal party would kick this traitor’s butt to the curb on grounds of foreign interference but the LPC is a CCP subsidiary.
In the shadow of endless headlines about Donald Trump and the American political circus, another crisis is quietly unfolding on Canadian soil — this one in our fields, barns and fishing boats.
As of March 17, China has imposed crippling tariffs on key Canadian agri-food exports: 100% on grains and canola, and 25% on pork, lobster and seafood. These aren’t abstract threats. These are real, immediate penalties on farmers, fishers and harvesters — Canada’s food producers.
Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre on Tuesday drew public attention to a report that shows Mark Carney in October, while chair of Brookfield Asset Management, brokered a deal with Chinese bankers.
A month prior to Carney’s trip to China, then-Prime Minister Justin Trudeau made him chair of the Liberals’ Task Force on Economic Growth.
China ‘ready to move forward’ in relations with Canada, envoy says
China’s ambassador says his country is open to negotiating a free-trade agreement with Ottawa and co-operating on a research station in the Arctic – extending an invitation to repair strained ties as Canada’s relations with the United States worsen.
However, Wang Di, Beijing’s envoy to Canada, says Ottawa would have to remove restrictions placed on Chinese investment in recent years.
Chinese tariffs on $3.7 billion of Canadian agricultural goods and food products took effect on March 20, several months after Canada imposed tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles (EVs) and metals.
The Chinese tariffs were implemented shortly after midnight, imposing a 100 percent levy on Canadian imports of canola oil, oil cakes, and peas, along with a 25 percent tax on pork and seafood products.
