Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he has never been briefed that any candidates in a Canadian election were influenced by financing from the Chinese government.
A Global News report earlier this month cited unnamed sources who claimed Trudeau was briefed last January that China was trying to interfere in Canadian politics, including by funding at least 11 candidates in the 2019 federal election.
My guess is CSIS likely doesn’t trust Trudeau or the Liberal Party.
Following claims that Chinese agents interfered in recent Canadian elections and stole industry secrets from Hydro-Québec, Conservative Sen. Leo Housakos is calling on the Canadian government to take a much harder line against China — a country he describes as “an evil authoritarian regime.”
Housakos has introduced a bill, S-237, that would establish a foreign influence registry in Canada — a system that would compel agents working on behalf of a foreign government to either register their interactions with public officials in Canada or face criminal penalties.
Under this proposed law, any foreign-backed agent who fails to declare any interaction with a “public office holder” — like a cabinet minister, an MP, a senator or a senior government official — could be charged with a crime and face hefty fines and up to two years in jail.
If there was significant interference by China in Canada’s last two federal elections, which seems increasingly likely, the federal agency specifically created by the Trudeau government to inform the public about it said nothing.
That suggests one of two things, both alarming.
Canada is in the global spotlight, again. A reporter at the G20 meeting in Bali captured Chinese leader Xi Jinping threatening Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau over leaks of an earlier meeting between the two, in which Trudeau reportedly confronted Xi with intelligence leaks to the media about China’s election interference.
Yes, there was a leak about a leak.
Diversity is killing us.
Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s “dismissive” behaviour towards Prime Minister Justin Trudeau at the G20 summit is a result of the Liberal government’s failure to treat national security issues seriously, says Conservative Senator Leo Housakos. Other Tory lawmakers are calling for stronger actions to address Beijing’s interference in Canada.
Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau received a verbal spanking from China’s commie dictator Xi Jinping at the recent G20 Summit.
Watch Xi scold Trudeau about for leaking their private conversation to the Canadian press. Check out their body language. Xi looks pissed. Trudeau looks like a cuck.
This has gone viral, what a dolt. I bet Junior set this up with his press thinking he would look like a hero. Xi made him look like a twit, which he is.
Even as President Xi Jinping criticized the PM at the G20 summit, Canada is still trying to do business with Beijing.
Any reasonable observer would have to admit that until Wednesday, anyway, the Liberal government had been doing quite a good job of putting a bold and rosy gloss on the humiliations, embarrassments and scandals that have lately encumbered its foundational policy of kowtowing to China’s Xi Jinping in the hopes of winning trade advantages and global-statesman status for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
Canadian politicians and China experts have offered their observations on Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s confrontation with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau at the G-20 summit on Nov. 16, when Xi told Trudeau that he shouldn’t have “leaked” details of their conversation to the media the day before.
A prominent businessman in Toronto’s Chinese community is the subject of two separate investigations involving foreign interference, sources tell Global News, both related to a series of briefings and memos that Canadian security officials allegedly gave to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau beginning in January.
The Canadian Security Intelligence Service has investigated Wei Chengyi for his alleged role in a covert scheme that facilitated large-fund transfers meant to advance Beijing’s interests in Canada’s 2019 federal election, sources said.
Toe-curling footage has emerged of Chinese President Xi Jinping humiliating Justin Trudeau with a dressing down on the sidelines of the G20 conference.
The two leaders were caught on camera having a heated discussion at the global summit in Bali today, with Xi tearing into the Canadian Prime Minister.
Xi appeared visibly frustrated as he confronted Trudeau about how details of an earlier meeting between them, which was held yesterday, had been leaked to the press by Canadian government sources.
Once again Junior embarrasses Canada.
Conservative MP Michael Chong is calling on the Liberal government to identify the 11 candidates who allegedly received funding from the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in the 2019 federal election.
“It is clear that Beijing interfered in last year’s 2021 election. Beijing’s ambassador to Canada commented critically and publicly during that election campaign and Beijing spread disinformation through proxies on Chinese-language social media platforms,” Chong, who is the shadow minister for foreign affairs, said in Parliament on Nov. 14.
According to a senior government source, Trudeau initiated a conversation with Xi following a morning meeting of world leaders in Bali, Indonesia. It last a few minutes, and the leaders discussed the election reports, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and North Korea.
They agreed to keep in touch, the source said; Foreign Affairs Minister Melanie Joly also spoke with her Chinese counterpart on Tuesday.
RCMP have laid the first economic-espionage charge in Canadian history against a researcher in Quebec who is accused of obtaining trade secrets for the benefit of China.
Yuesheng Wang, 35, faces four criminal charges involving an alleged conspiracy to spy on his employer. He has spent six years working for Hydro-Québec, which said in a statement that he was doing research into battery materials for the utility’s Centre of Excellence in Transportation Electrification and Energy Storage.
I’m sure Justin will allow him to move back to China like he did for the Winnipeg Germ Lab spy’s.
At the ASEAN Summit in Cambodia this weekend, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was asked by Global News reporter Mackenzie Gray if he plans to bring up allegations of China’s interference in Canadian elections with Chinese President Xi Jinping at the upcoming G20 summit.
In this instance “demurred” may be understood to mean “Trudeau didn’t wish to jeopardize a possible opportunity to lick Xi’s arse.”
A multi-partisan group of MPs on the procedure and House affairs committee agreed Monday to probe claims that the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and its agents have interfered in the Canadian political process.
Citing unnamed sources, Global News reported last week that China was behind “a vast campaign of foreign inference” in Canadian politics.
That campaign reportedly included “a clandestine network” of candidates in the 2019 election, a movement to place “agents into the offices of MPs in order to influence policy,” an attempt to “co-opt and corrupt former Canadian officials to gain leverage in Ottawa” and a campaign to “punish Canadian politicians whom the People’s Republic of China views as threats to its interests.”
