Canada’s top-rated research university will end all its research partnerships with Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei, the Star has learned.
“We are disentangling ourselves from this company,” Charmaine Dean, vice-president of research at the University of Waterloo, told the Star.
“We will be completely extricated through various legal mechanisms, exit clauses and a variety of processes. Within a few months, we will be completely extricated from that relationship.”
While Prime Minister Justin Trudeau insists he has “absolutely no intersection” with the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation, the nonprofit uncannily mirrors the worst characteristics and impulses of his Liberal government. Chief among them, hubris.
On Tuesday, the foundation’s former president and CEO Morris Rosenberg testified in front of the House of Commons privacy and ethics committee about the now-infamous $200,000 donation it accepted with links to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Rosenberg led the nonprofit at the time and would like MPs and Canadians to write off the controversy as little more than good old-fashioned naivete rather than reckless arrogance.
At what point do we start kicking out China’s diplomats for interfering in Canada’s domestic affairs?
Given that the diplomat who was orchestrating efforts to target the family of an MP is still in Canada, still on the government’s list of diplomats, there is nothing China can do that will see the Trudeau government act.
Canada’s foreign interference scandal keeps coming back to the same question.
Why did Prime Minister Justin Trudeau create new procedures to detect and report on foreign attacks on our democracy, and then ignore their findings and recommendations?
Trudeau is Beijings Butt Boy.
Trudeau says he didn’t know Tory MP’s family was threatened by Beijing
OTTAWA—Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Wednesday he only found out two days ago that a Conservative MP’s family was being targeted by the Chinese government despite CSIS allegedly having a report on the subject that dates back two years.
Trudeau said the information never made its way to his desk, and he’s now issued instructions to Canada’s spy agency to ensure that never happens again.
The Globe and Mail reported Monday that security officials believed in 2021 that Beijing had targeted relatives of Wellington—Halton Hills MP Michael Chong as part of a campaign to influence Canadian politics.
Why is he not jailed?
SHOCKA! – Justin Trudeau’s brother denies Trudeau Foundation was involved in foreign interference
During the 2021 federal election in the downtown Toronto riding of Spadina-Fort York, the young, progressive, ethnically-Chinese candidate seemed a shoo-in for the Liberals.
A rising political star with a history of youth advocacy, a university lecturer, entrepreneur and a reserve officer in the Royal Canadian Navy, Kevin Vuong was an ideal candidate for a party aspiring to better represent today’s Canada.
But it quickly came to an end.
Morris Rosenberg, the former president and CEO of the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation, says in retrospect the embattled charity was naïve to think it would have “soft power” over China when it accepted money in 2016 with ties to the Chinese government.
The former veteran public servant told a parliamentary committee Tuesday night that at the time, there was a belief that engaging with Chinese officials would familiarize them with Canadian governance, rule of law and human rights.
“Was that naïve at the time? In hindsight, probably it was naive,” said Rosenberg.
“We felt we could do more good.”
What gall.
The evidence of China’s interference in Canada’s democracy was already alarming. Now, it’s doubly so, with fresh revelations that Beijing not only meddled with successive federal elections but also attempted to intimidate a sitting MP.
The Globe and Mail previously reported, based on Canadian Security Intelligence Service documents, that Beijing operatives tried to swing some riding outcomes in the 2019 and 2021 federal elections, although no one is saying those efforts changed who formed government.
What exactly was going on at the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation when a 2016 donation was made supposedly on behalf of the Chinese government in an alleged attempt to influence the prime minister? A clear answer would be welcome, but the foundation has a long association with donors, and members, who were also trying to gain influence with the Liberal party and the government.
When it comes to Chinese Communist Party (CCP) interference in Canadian affairs, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is running out of runway. Not a week goes by that doesn’t bring fresh revelations about just how badly Canada’s national security has been compromised under his watch.
Trudeau cares only about protecting the grift for Canada’s China Class.
I don’t care if a foreign power is behind Trudeau’s ouster, in fact I wish them success and godspeed in their effort.
The Canadian Security Intelligence Service on Tuesday confirmed to Conservative MP Michael Chong that he and his family were targeted by the Chinese government after he sponsored a parliamentary motion condemning Beijing’s conduct in Xinjiang as genocide, the MP says.
He said CSIS also confirmed that Zhao Wei, a Chinese diplomat in Canada, was involved.
John Ivison: Interference news has Liberals looking soft on a country intent on undermining our democracy
Polls suggest voters are skeptical, not only of the Trudeau government’s relationship with China, but also about the PM’s ability to tell voters the truth
OTTAWA — The serenity shown by one senior Liberal official in late March over the Chinese foreign interference saga was at odds with the fever that was gripping Ottawa.
At the time, it seemed the government was in real trouble. There was compelling testimony that suggested the Liberal party was warned by the security services that some of its candidates were helped by the Chinese government in successive elections.
The Michael Chong revelations leave little doubt that the Trudeau and his Liberal Party are criminally negligent for failing to notify Chong of the threat to his family from the Communist Chinese.
It was not an oversight. It is collusion, it is treason.
Trudeau says he’s asked for investigation of Chinese foreign interference aimed at Conservative MP
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said he’s asked his officials to investigate a report in The Globe and Mail that says the Chinese government has targeted Canadian MPs behind a Parliamentary motion declaring Beijing’s oppression of Uyghurs to constitute genocide.
Speaking in Question Period Monday, Mr. Trudeau was asked by Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre why a report on the matter from CSIS was produced in 2021 but no action was taken. He noted the Chinese diplomat reported by The Globe and Mail as involved in targeting Conservative MP Michael Chong is still listed as working in Beijing’s Toronto consulate.
“This is absolutely unacceptable and it shouldn’t have happened,” Mr. Trudeau told the Commons.
Seriously. We need to learn to riot like the French.
Alleged Chinese police stations still open in Quebec, despite minister’s claims
MONTREAL – Two Montreal-area community groups under investigation for allegedly hosting secret Chinese government police stations say they are operating normally.
Their comments contradict claims made last week by federal Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino, who told a parliamentary committee that the RCMP had closed all the alleged secret police stations in the country.
My statement on The Globe and Mail report regarding a diplomat of the People’s Republic of China in Canada.https://t.co/9Fcm46tZSs#cdnpoli pic.twitter.com/WL6zJNbBvE
— Michael Chong 🇨🇦 (@MichaelChongMP) May 1, 2023
Expect nothing better of Justin he is Xi’s puppet.
Link to the Globe Report here, and here.
