Despite strained ties, U.S. senator says Canada should be cautious of making deals with China

Despite strained ties, U.S. senator says Canada should be cautious of making deals with China

As Canada prepares to accept more Chinese-made electric vehicles into the country, a U.S. senator is warning that although Canada-U.S. ties are strained, Canadian officials should be cautious when making agreements with China’s government.

“I understand that Canada is looking elsewhere and trying to diversify,” Michigan Democratic Sen. Elissa Slotkin said in an interview on Rosemary Barton Live that aired Sunday morning.

“I think the point that I would make and did make to Canadian leaders is, just because we have become more difficult doesn’t mean the Chinese are always the straightest shooters when it comes to national security,” Slotkin told host Rosemary Barton.

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Former Vancouver Mayor Says Premier Eby Aware of RCMP Investigation Into B.C. Cabinet Minister Over Alleged Chinese Government Collaboration

Former Vancouver Mayor Says Premier Eby Aware of RCMP Investigation Into B.C. Cabinet Minister Over Alleged Chinese Government Collaboration

VANCOUVER — Kennedy Stewart, the former mayor of Vancouver, said in a broadcast interview Monday that British Columbia Premier David Eby is aware of an active RCMP investigation into a sitting cabinet minister suspected of collaborating with the Chinese government — and that senior NDP officials have been alerted to the matter with no apparent action taken.

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Auto giants warn China EV quota will gut Canadian industry and jobs

Auto giants warn China EV quota will gut Canadian industry and jobs

Canada’s auto sector is raising alarm bells over Ottawa’s decision to open the door to Chinese electric vehicles, warning the move could undercut domestic manufacturing and cost jobs.

Blacklock’s Reporter says executives from General Motors Canada told MPs that new federal concessions allowing thousands of low-tariff Chinese electric vehicles into the country risk weakening Canada’s industrial base and “hollowing out” its skilled workforce.


We were likely to lost auto manufacturing anyway, this will accelerate it.

They certainly didn’t waste any time …

Chinese EVs were spotted in Toronto, here’s what you need to know ahead of their Canadian release

h/t Mauser (Incognito)

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This Researcher Thinks Canada Is an Easy Target for the CCP

This Researcher Thinks Canada Is an Easy Target for the CCP

As a NATO member and U.S. ally, Canada is a natural target for Beijing’s overseas influence operations, according to Peter Mattis, China expert and president of the U.S.-based think tank The Jamestown Foundation.

However, Canada is particularly vulnerable, Matti says, as the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) views it as an easy target for several reasons.

One factor is a lack of strong controls against CCP interference in Canada, Mattis said in an interview with Jan Jekielek, senior editor and host of The Epoch Times’ “American Thought Leaders.”

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Parliamentary record contradicts Liberal MP’s claim about forced labour comments … Beijing Stooge Silent

Parliamentary record contradicts Liberal MP’s claim about forced labour comments … Beijing Stooge Silent

OTTAWA — Parliament’s official record shows Liberal MP Michael Ma was referring to Xinjiang — a region in China where reports of forced labour have been documented — in a committee meeting last month, contradicting the MP’s claims that he was misheard during a contentious exchange with a witness.

Ma was also given the opportunity to correct the official transcript and didn’t do so, the office of the Speaker of the House of Commons told the Star.


Carney is Beijing’s stooge.

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Made In Xinjiang: How Forced Labour Will Dictate Ottawa & Beijing’s Relationship

Made In Xinjiang: How Forced Labour Will Dictate Ottawa & Beijing’s Relationship

The vocabulary of diplomacy has always struggled to keep pace with the realities of power. Today, as technoauthoritarianism reshapes global influence, Canada faces a stark test: whether its economic and diplomatic engagement with Beijing can be reconciled with mounting evidence of systemic human rights abuses, most notably the ongoing genocide against the Uyghur people. Recent public statements and testimonies have only sharpened that dilemma, exposing not just policy tensions, but a deeper moral fault line.

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Former CIA Analyst Rebukes Senator Woo’s Attempt to Discredit the Study That Has Now Captured Woo’s Own Group as Its 576th United Front-Linked Organization in Canada

Former CIA Analyst Rebukes Senator Woo’s Attempt to Discredit the Study That Has Now Captured Woo’s Own Group as Its 576th United Front-Linked Organization in Canada

OTTAWA — A former Central Intelligence Agency analyst whose Washington think tank documented a swarm of Chinese Communist Party-linked community organizations across Western democracies — and identified Canada as the most heavily penetrated per capita — told Parliament that a sitting Canadian senator’s effort to discredit the research amounted to “a kind of laziness,” after that senator’s own newly founded advocacy group was identified by the same researchers as the 576th United Front-linked organization in Canada.

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China allies paid $2,000 to attend Carney fundraiser

Several Toronto-area business people aligned in various ways with the Chinese government were among guests who paid close to $2,000 to attend a Liberal party fundraiser with Prime Minister Mark Carney last month.

The attendees included individuals and groups that have won praise from Chinese diplomats and agencies, echoed Beijing’s talking points on contentious issues and worked with Chinese Communist Party (CPP) organizations.

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Carney’s Pivot to Beijing: Did the Canada China Business Council Help Pen Ottawa’s China Reset?

Carney’s Pivot to Beijing: Did the Canada China Business Council Help Pen Ottawa’s China Reset?

OTTAWA – In a polished Beijing banquet hall on January 16, 2026, Prime Minister Mark Carney opened what is perhaps the most important and least analyzed speech of his young premiership by turning first to Olivier Desmarais and the Canada China Business Council.

“We are honored and grateful,” Carney said. After first turning to Desmarais, grandson of former prime minister Jean Chrétien and a scion of the Power Corporation milieu of Montreal, Carney thanked “the team at the Canada China Business Council for your leadership in bringing together, look at this room, this remarkable room, together.”

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Canada Risks ‘Deep Entanglement’ With Beijing by Opening Its Market to Chinese EVs

Canada Risks ‘Deep Entanglement’ With Beijing by Opening Its Market to Chinese EVs

Former Canadian diplomat Michael Kovrig told MPs that Ottawa’s agreement with Beijing to open its markets to Chinese electric vehicles puts Canada at risk of “deeper economic entanglement” with China and dependency that could erode Canada’s sovereignty.

Kovrig made the comments as he testified on April 16 before the House of Commons science and research committee, which is studying the implications of the Canada–China preliminary joint arrangement on Canada’s electric vehicle sector.

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‘Massive risk’: Chinese EVs are the first test for Canada’s new strategic partnership with China

‘Massive risk’: Chinese EVs are the first test for Canada’s new strategic partnership with China

OTTAWA — Criticism over Canada allowing Chinese electric vehicles access to Canada’s market is mounting, with industry and geopolitical analysts warning of the risks associated with increased engagement with China.

“It’s a massive risk,” said Brian Kingston, president and CEO of the Canadian Vehicle Manufacturers’ Association.

“Canada’s auto industry depends on our integration with North America and the U.S. specifically, that’s been the foundation of the sector, going all the way back to the auto pact.”

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Terry Glavin: The muddled and murky world of Michael Ma

Terry Glavin: The muddled and murky world of Michael Ma

You might have thought that the floor-crossing Liberal MP Michael Ma would have been political kryptonite after his March 26 performance at a parliamentary committee looking into the implications of Prime Minister Mark Carney’s January invitation to China to annually export 49,000 electrical vehicles into Canada.

Ma had badgered the expert witness Margaret McCuaig-Johnston, impugned the credibility of the China Strategic Risk Institute where she serves as a senior advisor, demanded to know whether she had personally witnessed acts of forced labour in China and appeared to suggest that Beijing’s persecution of the Uyghur minority in Xinjiang was merely “hearsay.”

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GOLDSTEIN: Carney’s two-faced policy on China exposes his Davos speech as nonsense

Based on what Prime Minister Mark Carney, a Liberal cabinet minister, and a Liberal MP said publicly about China’s use of forced labour, the idea they are fiercely criticizing Chinese President Xi Jinping about it in private is laughable.

Indeed, watching the performance of Carney, Natural Resources Minister Tim Hodgson, and former Conservative, now Liberal, MP Michael Ma on the issue over the past week, would have been hilarious if their milquetoast responses weren’t so alarming.

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Carney’s Government Is Not Failing to See China’s Threat. It Is Choosing to Look Away.

OTTAWA — During my years in the RCMP, I dealt with organized crime, national security threats, and foreign actors who sought to exploit Canada’s openness. We understood something fundamental: threats rarely announce themselves plainly. They operate in the grey space—deniable, incremental, and often dismissed until it is too late.

What concerns me today is not just that foreign interference is happening. It is that Canada still seems reluctant to call it what it is—particularly when it involves the Chinese Communist Party.

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GOLDSTEIN: Liberals’ kid gloves treatment of China is nothing new

While Liberal MP Michael Ma has belatedly apologized for questioning the veracity of expert testimony at a Commons committee hearing that China uses forced labour — claiming that was not his intent — cozying up to China has been mainstream Liberal thinking in a line stretching from Justin Trudeau to Mark Carney.

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