Foreign interference inquiry must get access to all cabinet confidences, former spies say

An organization representing retired Canadian spies says a public inquiry into Beijing foreign-interference operations must be given access to all cabinet documents and transcripts of discussions to determine whether Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was ever informed of China’s attempts to meddle in the 2019 and 2021 elections.

The Pillar Society, which represents retired Canadian Security Intelligence Service officers and former members of the RCMP Security Service, has joined calls for a public inquiry and expressed concern that further delay could end up scuttling one.

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David Krayden: How Serious Do Beijing’s Threats Against Canadian Lawmakers Have to Get Before Ottawa Acts?

Even as the Trudeau government had its “special rapporteur,” David Johnston, supposedly investigating foreing interference in Canada’s electoral process, China was harassing MP Michael Chong.

This is incredible and demonstrates how little China cares about any repercussions of its surveillance, interference, spying, and intimidation of Canadians who dare to question Beijing’s dictatorial and genocidal policies.

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MP Michael Chong targeted in ‘information operation’ likely from China

Global Affairs Canada (GAC) says it has detected an “information operation” targeting Conservative MP Michael Chong and it is “highly probable” — but not conclusive — that came from China.

I bet it came from the PMO.

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Trudeau having difficult time finding reliable Patsy to oversee inquiry into foreign interference by ChiComs and Canada’s China Class

Multiple candidates to oversee foreign interference inquiry have rejected the job: sources

OTTAWA — The Liberal government is having trouble finding a potential commissioner to oversee a possible public inquiry into foreign interference, with at least half a dozen current or retired judges having declined the offer, multiple sources have confirmed to the National Post.

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FINTRAC Says China Behind Many Canadian Money Laundering Operations: Report

China is behind many money-laundering transactions and other fraudulent financial activity in Canada, according to a July report from the Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre of Canada (FINTRAC).

The report identified students, homemakers, lawyers, and business owners as some of the occupations involved in receiving funds from China.

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Legal Threats Ramp Up Against Those Reporting on CCP interference

Threats of legal action have recently been made targeting journalists who are focused on exposing foreign interference by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in Canada

In June, Sen. Victor Oh proposed to create a national Chinese foundation to collect donations for launching lawsuits “against those unreasonable journalists, news outlets, and politicians who slander and defame Chinese people.”

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B.C. case exposes corporate ties to Chinese criminal underworld

The 12 apartments above a sporting goods shop in Vancouver appear unremarkable, blending in with thousands of others in the beachfront Kitsilano neighbourhood.

But the building’s bland, beige exterior hides a dark secret.

Authorities say the apartments are a key part of a money laundering operation run by Paul King Jin, an alleged member of a Chinese organized crime group, and a self-described loan shark.

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Canada’s Sluggish Response to Chinese Political Influence

Another day, another revelation that the People’s Republic of China is engaged in political warfare against the West.

Last week, Canada arrested and charged a former officer of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, William Majcher, for aiding “the Chinese government’s efforts to identify and intimidate an individual outside the scope of Canadian law.” Worse, it appears that Mr. Majcher did not act alone, as he was granted bail “on conditions that include not communicating with another former Mountie with whom he is alleged to have conspired.”

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Decoupling From China: Canada Among the Laggards

Economic decoupling from China gathered steam during the pandemic when the vulnerability of supply chains came to the fore. But Canada’s economic linkages with China haven’t diminished, despite its closest ally the United States actively doing so.

Whether it’s called decoupling or friendshoring or nearshoring, international trade expert Eric Miller says it’s primarily about reducing risk—de-risking—in trade with China and then adjusting to the impacts.

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Human Rights Group Raises Concerns Over Chinese Canadian Museum’s Sidelining of MP Vocally Opposed to CCP

A human rights group is raising concerns about the Canadian government-funded Chinese Canadian Museum as it opens to the public this month, citing anomalies during the opening ceremony and some board members’ outspoken support of the Chinese communist regime.

The opening ceremony was held at the museum, housed in the historic Wing Sang Building in Vancouver’s Chinatown, on July 1. Dozens of politicians from all three levels of government were invited, including British Columbia Premier David Eby, Vancouver Mayor Ken Sim, and Mary Ng, the federal minister of international trade, export promotion, small business, and economic development.

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The secret messages behind the lab-leak cover-up

Beijing was helped by a cabal of conspiring scientists

“What happened to Oppenheimer damaged our ability as a society to debate honestly about scientific theory,” wrote Kai Bird, author of the biography on which Christopher Nolan’s new film is based. “Yet too many of our citizens still distrust scientists and fail to understand the scientific quest, the trial and error inherent in testing any theory against facts by experimenting. Just look at what happened to our public health civil servants during the recent pandemic.”

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China’s Many Spies in Canada

For China watchers, the arrest of a retired RCMP officer for allegedly helping China with its interference efforts in Canada is not surprising, given Beijing’s extensive network of spies and agents in Canada and its ambitions for global domination.

Scott McGregor, a former Canadian Armed Forces intelligence operator and intelligence adviser to the RCMP, says Canada is particularly infested with a proportionally higher number of CCP agents compared to other countries.

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Foreign interference: CSIS told B.C. premier it can’t share intelligence, documents show

Canada’s intelligence service told B.C. Premier David Eby during a briefing on Chinese foreign interference in March that it could not share secret information, according to notes of the meeting obtained by Global News.

The hour-long March 28 meeting between the premier and the regional director general of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service followed a news report alleging China had meddled in Vancouver’s 2022 mayoral election.

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Second ex-Mountie named as co-conspirator in Chinese interference case

A second former senior Mountie is allegedly caught up in an investigation into Chinese interference operations in Canada.

Kenneth Ingram Marsh, a B.C.-based private investigator and former commander of an RCMP international organized crime unit, has been named as a co-conspirator in the allegations along with former Mountie William “Bill” Majcher.

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How an ex-Mountie accused of conspiracy became China’s ‘hired gun’ in a campaign Canada once tacitly supported

As an RCMP officer, William Majcher, 60, used fake identities to infiltrate organized crime groups to investigate money laundering. He even went undercover to help the FBI to build a case against a Colombian drug cartel, knowing that if he was outed, a bounty would be put on his head.

After leaving the national police force in 2007, Majcher moved to Hong Kong, where he helped create a firm called Evaluate Monitor Investigate Deter Recover (EMIDR) in 2016. The company’s raison d’etre was to help China and its corporations recover assets it alleged were stolen, Majcher said in previous interviews.

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