Michael Taube: Is the Government Listening to CSIS? That’s Not Entirely Clear

Any strong words Trudeau may mouth about China are to be taken with a very large grain of salt.

The recent controversy involving Conservative MP Michael Chong and his family being targeted by China is an enormous issue. For those who have repeatedly questioned Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s commitment to ensuring that safety and security are among Canada’s highest priorities, this may be the biggest red flag of them all.

The Globe and Mail’s Robert Fife and Steven Chase recently published contents of a July 20, 2021, Canadian Security Intelligence Service report that examined China’s interest in Canada. The nine-page document suggested the former viewed the latter as a “high-priority target,” had employed “incentives and punishment” to gain an advantage, and the targeting was “expected to continue and increase over time.”

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Liberals are painting Pierre Poilievre as the next Donald Trump. That’s a risky strategy

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau should be cautious about making the same mistake with Pierre Poilievre as Stephen Harper did with him when the Conservative prime minister mischaracterized his Liberal opponent only to see him surpass expectations.

Back in 2015, Harper’s director of communications, Kory Teneycke, told reporters that expectations of Trudeau were so low going into the first election debate “that if he comes on stage with his pants on, he will probably exceed expectations.”

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Crazy Old Man dismisses foreign interference in Liberal convention speech

Jean Chrétien dismisses foreign interference in Liberal convention speech

OTTAWA — Former prime minister Jean Chrétien rallied Liberal troops, told war stories and dismissed recent reports of foreign interference at the party’s Ottawa convention Friday evening.

The current Liberal government has been dogged by questions of foreign interference for most of 2023, with allegations that China interfered in the 2021 election, channelled donations to the Trudeau Foundation and, most recently, allegations that China was threatening a Conservative MP’s family.

The Liberal convention is a case of whistling past the graveyard.

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Michael Chong reveals why his story should concern Canadians

OTTAWA— A friend, a man of honour, a man who “embodies all that is best” about the House of Commons.

That’s how not just party colleagues but even partisan rivals described Conservative MP Michael Chong this week as shock rippled through Parliament with revelations he and his family were targets for Chinese state interference in 2021.

But when Chong himself first heard the news, via a Globe and Mail report last Monday, shock wasn’t what hit him.

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GOLDSTEIN: The warnings about foreign interference — in 2019 — that Trudeau ignored

In August 2019, two months before the 2019 federal election and two years before the 2021 election, which have both raised major concerns about foreign interference, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau received a report from the National Security and Intelligence Committee of Parliamentarians (NSICOP) that he created in 2017 to advise him on security issues.

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Trudeau government still trying to think of a good lie explaining why threats against Chong were not passed up to cabinet

Government still investigating why threats against Chong not passed up to cabinet

OTTAWA – The government is still investigating why warnings that a Conservative member of Parliament was being threatened by the Chinese government never made it to the desk of any cabinet minister, Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino said Saturday.

Speaking to reporters on the sidelines of the Liberal policy convention in Ottawa, he said the possibility of holding someone accountable for that decision remains “under consideration.”

“It’s important that we unearth their reasons as to why this was not brought directly to the attention of the public safety minister at the time, as well as the prime minister because we take these issues seriously,” he said.

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How to kick a diplomat out of Canada

The federal government is under heavy political pressure to expel a foreign diplomat from Canada. Such expulsions are rare — but they do happen.

Earlier this week, the Globe and Mail reported that Zhao Wei, a diplomat at the Chinese consulate in Toronto, was allegedly working on efforts to threaten the family members of Conservative MP Michael Chong.

Junior won’t act without permission from Xi and Canada’s China Class.

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Grifter Hillary Clinton urges Canada to keep up support for Ukraine

OTTAWA – Former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told Liberals to keep supporting Ukraine, arguing the battle against Russia is a battle that the whole world can’t afford to lose.

Clinton was a keynote speaker at the party’s biennial convention in Ottawa Friday night and said western government should continue supporting Ukraine in anyway possible.

Clinton Cache? That is a dead horse.

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Liberals trying to save face by quietly discrediting Michael Chong, Conservatives say

Attempts by two Liberal MPs to throw cold water on claims the Chinese government intimidated relatives of a member of parliament are part of larger efforts by the party to save face by discrediting the accusations, a Conservative MP said on Friday.

The Liberals are such disgusting slimes.

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Arrogant Lying Pissant Trudeau refuses to clear up confusion over communication of China interference allegations

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he shared the “best information” he had when he told Canadians a report about a Chinese government plot to target MPs was never shared outside of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service — despite information to the contrary.

But in a news conference Friday, the prime minister refused to answer questions about the source of the communication disconnect in his government.

“I get a briefings regularly from various sources. I’m not going to go into details on that,” he said. “I shared the best information I had at the time both to [Conservative MP Michael] Chong and to Canadians.”

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Another swell public appointment by Junior Trudeau …

Canada’s first accessibility commissioner facing investigation of claims that he mistreated staff

A year after the federal government praised its “historic appointment” of Canada’s first accessibility commissioner, the government has ordered an external investigation into claims that he mistreated staff, CBC News has learned.

Justice Minister David Lametti said he became aware of “the situation” in January and asked his department to look into it.

I guess it only follows that a diseased mind like Junior’s would appoint like minded sickos.

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CSIS Report Says China Committing Espionage Against Canadian Institutions, Defence Contractors

The Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) 2022 report stated that the People’s Republic of China (PRC) is continuing to engage in espionage against Canadian academic institutions, defence contractors, and civil society organizations.

“As a global leader in research and innovation, Canada is a prime target for the PRC’s intangible technology transfer efforts. China targets research through legal, illegal and other unregulated means in order to augment its science and technology sector,” the report states.

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China hits out at Canada over claim it targeted MP’s family

China has accused Canada of “slander and defamation” after it said Beijing targeted a member of its parliament and his family.

On Friday, China said the allegation that it attempted to intimidate Conservative MP Michael Chong over his anti-China stance was “nonsense”.

Mr Chong, 51, previously accused China of human rights abuses.

Canada is considering expelling Chinese diplomats over the issue and summoned its ambassador on Thursday.

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Young adults are giving up on home ownership, and a lot of them are furious about it

Falling house prices have failed to make home ownership more affordable. Young adults are not taking it well.

To gauge the mood of Gen Z and millennials on home ownership, I ran a survey in the Carrick on Money newsletter last month. Of the 1,545 people between the ages of 20 and 40 who replied, 52 per cent described themselves as either furious or angry about housing affordability.


The article is fine from a numbers point of view but fails to discuss the factors that have created the housing crisis such as Canada’s economically ruinous mass immigration policy which is creating a national wave of poverty.

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