MPs vote to launch study into China’s ‘intimidation campaign’ against Michael Chong

OTTAWA – The House of Commons has unanimously agreed that a committee should strike a study into the “intimidation campaign” allegedly orchestrated by a now-expelled Chinese diplomat against Conservative MP Michael Chong and his family.

Debate on the motion to see the Procedure and House Affairs Committee (PROC) take on this probe took priority in the House over the last few days, after House Speaker Anthony Rota found that Chong’s parliamentary privileges were breached as a result of the alleged targeting. The vote was held after question period on Wednesday, and passed with all-party support.

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Beijing is in Canada’s face, and that requires us to push back. But how?

There has been much discussion of late about Chinese interference, both in our democratic processes and directed at specific individuals. In both cases, concern has arisen because that information came from leaked intelligence reports. While no one has seen the leaked material, however, it is clear that Chinese activity has taken place – confirmed by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and by testimony before a House committee.

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All three of Trudeau’s national security advisers can’t recall receiving CSIS report on MP threats

All three national security and intelligence advisers who served Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in 2021 told Global News that they do not recall receiving a top secret intelligence assessment prepared that year about Beijing targeting Conservative MP Michael Chong and his family in Hong Kong.

The development raises yet more questions about how the report from the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS), which was allegedly sent to the desk of the prime minister’s top national security official, somehow fell through the cracks.

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Laughable for Liberals to say they ‘won’t tolerate’ Chinese interference

“Persona non grata.” In diplomatic circles, those three words are the equivalent of excommunication. Under Article 9 of the 1963 Vienna Convention for Diplomatic Relations, to which Canada is a party, a country can declare any member of another nation’s diplomatic corps persona non grata “at any time and without having to explain its decision.” It is considered “the most damning form of censure a country can bestow on foreign diplomats.”

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William Watson: The unfortunate example of Hillary Clinton — Populist trumps unpopular

Justin Trudeau has begun to grate on people the way Secretary Clinton did in 2016

A prime minister celebrating 30 years since coming to office, 60 years since first being elected to Parliament and 90 years on the planet, and a former American first lady and secretary of state who lost one presidential campaign to Barack Obama and a second to Donald Trump may not be the most dynamic duo with which to prove your political party is still leading-edge. It’s especially a problem when the people you put up to interview them — François-Philippe Champagne in the case of former prime minister Jean Chrétien and Chrystia Freeland for former first lady and secretary of state Hillary Clinton — look like they don’t really belong in the same league, even after several years in government.

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Canada’s worst decade for real economic growth since the 1930s

 

Over the last ten years real GDP per capita grew just 0.8 per cent a year on average in this country, its lowest rate of growth since the 1930s. Total GDP has been growing because of our growing population. But GDP per person has been essentially stagnant. This extended period of slow growth has widened the gap between per capita growth in the United States and Canada, demonstrating that the causes of our slumping growth are domestic, not external.

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John Robson: Self-Congratulatory Tone at Liberal Convention Belies the Grim Reality

Apparently it’s grand being a Liberal in Canada. You’re the best, you know it, and you want the world to see you dance before your own tabernacle. Which might not be the best approach just now.

It doubtless seems weird to emerge from the heady atmosphere of the Shaw Centre to a lecture on political tactics from me, of all people. Ditto on humility. But according to the Angus Reid “tracker,” Trudeau’s net approval rating is now minus 20 so those sunny ways aren’t casting much warmth.

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Trudeau Liberals declare support for ‘mandatory vaccination’ to ‘finish the fight’ against COVID

Canada’s Liberal Party, under the leadership of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, officially added support of mandatory COVID-19 vaccination to its platform after members voted in favor of it at the 2023 Liberal National Convention, which took place from May 4 to May 6 in Ottawa.

The mandate would force all travelers on interprovincial trains, commercial flights, cruise ships, and other federally regulated vessels be COVID-jabbed. It would also mandate COVID injections for federal employees.

h/t Mauser

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Why did Canada take so long to expel China’s diplomat? It’s ̷o̷u̷r̷ ̷t̷r̷a̷d̷e̷ ̷r̷e̷l̷a̷t̷i̷o̷n̷s̷h̷i̷p̷ to protect the money Trudeau’s backers in Canada’s ‘China Class’ have invested in the communist slave state

One would have thought that Zhao Wei, a Chinese diplomat and suspected intelligence officer, would have been sent home by the evening the news broke that he was part of an effort by Beijing to target MP Michael Chong’s family – or better still, two years ago when CSIS first learned about this.

But the expulsion came a week after The Globe and Mail brought the matter to the public’s attention. Foreign Minister Mélanie Joly had said the government was considering what economic, consular and diplomatic retaliation might be visited upon Canada if it went through with the move.

She’s really saying Justin had to look out for the best interests of Canada’s China Class, they after all have money invested with the Communist Slave State.

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Liberals’ convention pitch to fight online disinformation denounced as assault on free press

Without debate, Liberal Party members passed a policy resolution to combat online disinformation this weekend that critics warn could give the government control over Canadian media outlets.

The resolution calls for the Liberals to “explore options to hold online information services accountable for the veracity of material published on their platforms, and to limit publication only to material whose sources can be traced.”

“It’s deeply troubling this was sort of waved through at the Liberal convention,” said University of Ottawa law professor Michael Geist.

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Rex Murphy: A cringeworthy Liberal party paws at an American celebrity endorsement

There is nothing quite as touching as ceremony.

And have we not had a plush weekend of high ceremony? Perhaps the fullest of its kind.

A great time-weary institution — honouring itself — the best and brightest in attendance.

Dignitaries in abundance, elder persons of state and influence, the most touching exchanges between a once queen and a queen — possibly — yet to be.

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Talking amongst themselves: Liberal convention offers a glimpse of how Trudeau’s party sees itself

Political party conventions are strange things.

They’re meant to whip up enthusiasm among potential volunteers and donors in between elections. So on one level, the intended audience is entirely inside the clubhouse. But snippets of coverage will make their way to the broader public, meaning these events also serve as infomercial for the unconverted or undecided.

It’s not 2015 anymore.

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About two thirds of Canadians support increasing defence spending to reach NATO target: Nanos

Most Canadians support increasing defence spending to reach the two per cent target for NATO allies, according to a national survey conducted by Nanos for CTV News.

In 2021, Canada spent around 1.4 per cent of its gross domestic product (GDP) on national defence, falling short NATO’s two per cent target. The country has not achieved this defence spending target since the 1980s.


But Justin told NATO Canadians would never approve increased military spending which is odd as the Liberals announce millions to billions in new expenditures every week, most of it commited without consulting Citizens. 

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Roxham Asylum seekers bused to New Brunswick don’t much care for the place

Asylum seekers bused to New Brunswick left struggling to find help

Jessica arrived in New Brunswick confused and disoriented, stepping off a bus on a cold March night after a more than 10-hour journey from Roxham Road. She knew nothing about Moncton, the city where she had been sent.

“They never told me where we were going,” she said, speaking in Spanish through an interpreter.

Jessica is one of more than 200 asylum seekers bused to New Brunswick after arriving in Quebec over the international border. Her relocation to Moncton was part of a scramble by the federal government to redirect migrants to other parts of the country.

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