Intel Leaks on Beijing’s Interference: Warnings Dismissed for Decades, Now Issue Deeply Entrenched

The latest intelligence leaks about China’s influence operations in Canada are part of a trend that goes back at least three decades, though it has accelerated in recent years.

As early as the 1990s, a joint report by the RCMP and the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) was leaked to the media, warning about Beijing’s operatives and criminal gangs becoming entrenched in various Canadian sectors, but the authorities dismissed those concerns. Decades later, drug operations and money laundering became the subject of a B.C. public inquiry.

Lucki picked the right time to skip.

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U.S. seeking allies for possible sanctions if China aids Russia in Ukraine: sources

The United States is sounding out close allies about the possibility of imposing new sanctions on China if Beijing provides military support to Russia for its war in Ukraine, according to four U.S. officials and other sources.

The consultations, which are still at a preliminary stage, are intended to drum up support from a range of countries, especially those in the wealthy Group of 7 (G7), to coordinate support for any possible restrictions.


I question the assumption that CSIS is acting alone, maybe it isn’t involved at all.

Like Ardern & Sturgeon Justin and the Liberal party are in China’s thrall and  likely perceived as a security threat.

Who knows how leaky those 3 have been?

The US needs allies, so maybe it’s taking steps to ensure the Sinophiles like Trudeau, Adhern and Sturgeon are removed.

The NordStream pipelines didn’t commit suicide you know.

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Top spy suggests leakers are unhappy with PM’s handling of Chinese interference … why assume it’s CSIS staff?

The head of Canada’s spy service says an investigation is under way to find the leakers of highly classified information on Chinese election interference, and suggested the whistleblowers may have been frustrated with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s handling of Beijing’s activities in the democratic process.

Appearing before a Commons committee investigating Chinese interference, David Vigneault, director of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, declined to answer questions about whether the government ignored warnings of China’s influence operations in the 2019 and 2021 elections.

FEARLESS SPECULATION: The leakers will never be caught because they aren’t CSIS.

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Rex Murphy: China’s interference is an outrage. Trudeau dismissing it, an even greater outrage

Or some tiny, ineffectual statelet whose name we scarcely know having a bit of geopolitical fun.

It was the cruel, duplicitous, secretive, dictatorship of Communist China — of all the great powers of the world, the cruellest, the most duplicitous. According to the solid reporting of the Globe and Mail and Global news, Canadians know that the government of Communist China sought to leverage the Canadian election to favour the Trudeau Liberals.

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Company Trudeau chose to make COVID-19 vaccine in Canada could go out of business

MONTREAL – An American company that signed a deal with the federal government to produce COVID-19 vaccines in Montreal has warned investors it could go out of business within the year.

Executives at Maryland-based Novavax told investors on a conference call Tuesday that there is significant uncertainty surrounding the company’s ability to continue funding operations as the market for COVID-19 vaccines changes.

h/t Mauser

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An inquiry into foreign interference may restore trust in electoral process

With public trust evaporating, an arm’s-length inquiry into foreign interference in Canadian elections might be the only thing that could save the integrity of our electoral system and Justin Trudeau’s political skin.

Such an inquiry could help protect future elections from outside interference. For the Prime Minister, it could smother the political fire over his passivity in the face of Chinese efforts to influence the 2021 vote.

There is something about this affair that seems to bother Mr. Trudeau in a way most things don’t. His responses to questions about electoral interference have taken the form of ad hominem attacks against the press and those who are leaking information to it.

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Toronto Star, the CBC & Xi Jinping Agree: You’re Playing Right Into China’s Hand By Making A Big Deal About Justin Trudeau Being A Paid ChiCom Stooge!

Canada’s democracy is under attack. Here’s where the threats are coming from

OTTAWA—Canada’s federal election in 2021 saw a “surge” in disruptive behaviour not just by foreign players, but by domestic actors too, a new report has concluded.

Morris Rosenberg, a former senior civil servant, reviewed the way Canada monitored interference during the last election and he is urging the government to expand when legal authorities track and disclose interference to better cover the months before an election campaign actually begins.

That guy who threw some Pebbles is way worser than Justin and the LPC being ChiCom assets according to The Star.


Whatever happened in 2019 and 2021, China has succeeded in starting a political frenzy

… There is certainly a need for seriousness at this moment. Because whatever China tried to do, it has succeeded in triggering a political and media feeding frenzy that threatens to do some real damage to Canadian democracy, regardless of what the truth might be.

Where would we be without the steady hand of the CBC? Why we’d be speaking mandarin!

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John Robson: Attempts to Trivialize Chinese Election Meddling Will Have Serious Consequences

Diversity, we are told monotonously, is what unites us in Canada. And it is good up to a point, indeed vital. But a society that is not united around certain principles, for instance that foreign tyrants subverting our elections is intolerable, will neither survive nor deserve to. So are we?

I see an ominous divide here. On one side are those, generally not fans of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who think his efforts to shrug off very specific intelligence agency warnings are failing before our very eyes. And on the other are those, including many Liberal partisans, who dismiss, mock, and even smear these warnings as racist.

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Joe Oliver: The just transition is taking a slow boat to China

Most Western democracies, but especially Canada, passionately advocate climate policies that are weakening their collective ability to compete with an aggressive and antagonistic communist China. The green agenda helps China several ways: It saps the West’s economic prosperity and undermines its energy independence, while bolstering China’s economy and strengthening its national security, thereby advancing President Xi Jinping’s geopolitical ambitions.

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GUNTER: Trudeau up to old tricks on China interference file

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s reaction to news reports that China’s Communist regime has meddled in the last three Canadian elections (2019 and 2021, in particular) reminds me of his reaction to reports that he bullied former Justice Minister Jody Wilson-Raybould during the SNC-Lavalin scandal.

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John Ivison: Whether Liberals conspired with China’s election meddlers is now the question

If China’s goal when it interfered in the last general election was to reduce public trust in Canadian democracy, increase polarization and weaken confidence in our political leaders, Beijing must be absolutely bloody delighted with the results.

… What we don’t know is the extent of the Liberal Party of Canada’s collusion with that intervention, if there was any at all. One security source suggested to me that the Liberals were “co-conspirators” in this affair and that is where any further investigation must look.

I suspect the Liberal party turned a blind eye at the very least.

It is genuinely embarrassing that Canada has been made a Banana Republic by Junior and his handlers.

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Trudeau returning $200K bribe to Communist Chinese “Donor”

Trudeau Foundation returning $200K to Beijing-linked donor

The Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation is returning a donation worth thousands of dollars made by an adviser to the Chinese government.

In 2016, Zhang Bin, a wealthy Chinese businessman and adviser to the Chinese government, made a donation to the foundation worth $200,000.

A story published by the Globe and Mail on Tuesday suggests that Canadian security officials linked that donation back to the Chinese government.

Late and lame Junior, it changes nothing you’re still a turncoat.

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Chinese embassy decries ‘baseless and defamatory’ interference claims

OTTAWA – China’s embassy in Ottawa is denying reports of attempted election interference in Canada, saying the claims are “baseless and defamatory” and harm diplomatic relations.

The Liberal government has come under pressure in recent weeks to explain what Canada is doing about allegations of Chinese meddling in the last two federal elections, after they were spelled out in anonymous leaks to the media from security sources.

“China has always been firmly against any attempts to interfere in other countries’ domestic affairs,” reads a statement the embassy emailed to The Canadian Press.

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Chinese donors who funded Trudeau Foundation wanted statue of Mao in Montreal

The politically connected Chinese donors who pledged $1-million to the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation and the University of Montreal did not only want to build a statue of the former prime minister.

They also sought to erect a statue at the university’s law school of chairman Mao Zedong, the Chinese leader who brought his country under Communist control and, in his decades as the Great Helmsman, oversaw policies that led to huge numbers of deaths from famine and violence.

“They suggested one of Trudeau and Mao together,” Geneviève O’Meara, a spokesperson for the University of Montreal, confirmed to The Globe and Mail.

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