“Canada’s China Class”

For more than 25 years of writing columns and making media appearances, I’ve often discussed the importance of controlling the political narrative. It’s a key component for successful governments, and an art form unto itself.

The narrative is the messaging, or series of events, pertaining to a particular issue, policy, event, or controversy. There are times when it’s been shaped by parties and leaders. There are moments where it naturally develops on its own. No matter how it evolves, it’s always incumbent on the government to ensure the narrative points in their general direction for as long and as often as possible.

MPs on a House of Commons committee are set to vote this week on a motion calling for former governor general David Johnston—the recently appointed special rapporteur tasked with investigating foreign interference in Canada’s last two elections—to appear at committee for questioning about his work.

NDP MP Rachel Blaney recently served notice that she will ask the Commons Standing Committee on Procedure and House Affairs to vote on the motion this week, according to Blacklock’s Reporter.

The pressure has been building for months. What did Prime Minister Justin Trudeau know about intelligence reports on foreign interference in Canada’s elections, and when did he know it? Why is CSIS leaking like a sieve? Why won’t the PM call a public inquiry? And so on, and so on.

Then, 24 hours before Trudeau was to welcome United States President Joe Biden on his first state visit to Ottawa, another bombshell. Global News reported that Liberal MP Han Dong allegedly advised the Chinese consulate to recommend delaying China’s release of Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor from prison in 2021, so as not to “benefit the Conservatives.”

It’s a good piece and one that takes a similar tack as my own speculative entry which asked why Jacinda Arden & Nicola Sturgeon suddenly “resigned.” Like Trudeau they are regarded as China’s useful idiots. “

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Justin’s relegation to the Useful Idiot fringe may help explain the CBC’s ham-fisted propaganda piece published yesterday which sought to reassure someone that Justin was a trusted ally of the US and Five Eyes.

The China interference controversy is more explosive than the SNC-Lavalin, blackface/brownface or WE Charity scandals, and could carry serious fallout for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, says Prof. Duane Bratt of the Mount Royal University.

China’s attempts to interfere in Canadian elections is politically more explosive than the SNC-Lavalin, blackface/brownface and the WE Charity scandals, and its fallout could carry serious consequences for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s personal political career and the Liberal Party in the next election, say politicos.

“You’re dealing with a very tired government that has these other scandals in the past, but this goes to the heart of Canadian democracy,” said Duane Bratt, a professor of political science at the Mount Royal University, in an interview with The Hill Times. “It is very serious and very damaging.”

h/t KH

If Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was going to take seriously foreign interference in Canada’s democratic institutions, it would have happened after he received the Aug. 30, 2019 annual report of the National Security and Intelligence Committee of Parliamentarians. (NSICOP)

The true threat to Canadian democracy from the infiltration of the Liberal Party of Canada by China’s communist government is not that the outcome of elections has been altered, but rather that the government has been compromised in its ability to serve Canadians by caucus members and staffers who are nearly as loyal to a hostile foreign power as they are to this country.

No question that Canada has a serious China problem, but it is one of several.

Multiculturalism and bad immigration practices have balkanized Canada to the point where we are now a nation of imported Fifth Columns.

… Global News reviewed all statements made by Dong in Parliament since he was elected in 2019 and found no remarks related to the Two Michaels or calls for their freedom prior to March 2023.

Dong did not respond to questions about where he’s previously made such statements.

It’s only going to be a matter of time before an independent public inquiry is held to investigate alleged Chinese Communist Party interference in Canada’s democratic system. The longer the Trudeau Liberals continue to kick the can down the road, the more the leaks of damning security agency documents indicating CCP interference will pile up. Whoever the whistleblower may be, they clearly have no plan to stop releasing documents until action on the matter is taken.

Late in August of 1971, the Iowa Highway Patrol arrested two people for speeding and carrying a concealed weapon. The two were activists for The Black Revolutionary Party, a militant group formed earlier that year at a meeting of Canadian supporters of Chinese Communism, which was dedicated to armed resistance against discrimination and to the spread of Mao Zedong’s ideology.

In the car, the Iowa officers discovered an envelope addressed to Ottawa, to Bu Chaomin, a correspondent for China’s Xinhua News Agency. He was also, according to declassified FBI files, “reported to be a Red Chinese intelligence agent” – and later identified as one of the Chinese spies who spirited away Canadian nuclear technology, a record of covert work that forms part of an increasingly distant history.

Can we plow under the Bethune memorial now?

I have no sympathy for the predicament the Liberal party now finds itself in. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and all his hangers-on are the authors of their own misfortunes. When it comes to the stories of Chinese electoral interference now dominating the headlines, this government is the victim of its own short-sightedness and arrogance, and there’s nothing more to it.