Canada’s Corrupt Political Class – Page 25

Lack of Government Action on Chinese Interference Seems to Be What Led to CSIS Leaks

I’ll never forget July 18, 1983.

It was my first day on the job at the Communications Security Establishment, Canada’s signals intelligence (SIGINT) agency. I was all of 22 years old, days out of an MA from Western University and ready to start my first full-time job as a translator at the Department of National Defence (at least that is what I had been told). Now I was getting my indoctrination into what I was really being asked to do: Read sensitive intercepted signals and extract intelligence to be forwarded to senior government officials to help keep Canada safe.

"Justin Trudeau knew about this interference and he covered it up because he benefitted from it,” Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre tells reporters in Calgary when asked about a recent news report on alleged Chinese interference in the 2021 Canadian federal election.#cdnpoli pic.twitter.com/QLpjk5kErh

— CPAC (@CPAC_TV) February 17, 2023

by Blazingcatfur•February 19, 2023February 19, 2023•0•"Canada's China Class", "China - Communist Slave State", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Canada's Corrupt Political Class

Rupa Subramanya: Canada’s democracy died a little Friday afternoon

Is Canada turning into an electoral autocracy?

I ask this question in all seriousness. We’ve just witnessed the final chapter to the Emergencies Act invoked almost a year ago by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Friday afternoon declared legitimate in the report by Commissioner Paul Rouleau who headed the Public Order Enquiry Commission.

by Blazingcatfur•February 18, 2023February 18, 2023•0•"Criminalizing Dissent", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Canada's Corrupt Political Class, WTF?

Ex-MP says Canada an ‘open market’ for foreign interference in elections

RICHMOND, B.C. — A former British Columbia member of Parliament said he fears Canada has become an “open market” for foreign governments to sway elections after being named in a newspaper report as the target of an alleged campaign by Chinese diplomats to defeat him.

by Blazingcatfur•February 18, 2023February 18, 2023•0•Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Canada's Corrupt Political Class

CSIS documents show China warned ‘Canadian friends’ of foreign-interference investigations

Chinese diplomats quietly issued warnings to “friendly” influential Canadians in early 2022, advising them to reduce their contact with federal politicians to avoid being caught up in foreign-interference investigations by Canada’s spy agency.

Secret and top-secret Canadian Security Intelligence Service documents viewed by The Globe and Mail reveal how China sought to protect its network of “Canadian friends” – a community it relies on to build relations, influence and covertly gather information from MPs and senators.

Canadians cannot trust the Liberal Party. They are loyal only to power & corruption.

This explains a lot today. pic.twitter.com/Wf5PMdvvsv

— Pierre Poilievre (@PierrePoilievre) February 17, 2023

by Blazingcatfur•February 18, 2023February 18, 2023•0•"Canada's China Class", "China - Communist Slave State", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Canada's Corrupt Political Class

CSIS documents reveal Chinese strategy to influence Canada’s 2021 election by supporting Trudeau Liberals

China employed a sophisticated strategy to disrupt Canada’s democracy in the 2021 federal election campaign as Chinese diplomats and their proxies backed the re-election of Justin Trudeau’s Liberals – but only to another minority government – and worked to defeat Conservative politicians considered to be unfriendly to Beijing.

The full extent of the Chinese interference operation is laid bare in both secret and top-secret Canadian Security Intelligence Service documents viewed by The Globe and Mail that cover the period before and after the September, 2021, election that returned the Liberals to office.

No wonder Junior has been lying about about being briefed on CCP skullduggery, he was likely in on the plot. The LPC is a criminal organization that has reduced Canada to Banana Republic status.

h/t DM

by Blazingcatfur•February 17, 2023February 17, 2023•0•"Canada's China Class", "China - Communist Slave State", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Canada's Corrupt Political Class, Espionage

Minister Denies Being Influenced by McKinsey On Immigration Targets

Immigration Minister Sean Fraser told the House of Commons government operations committee on Feb. 15 that the involvement of consulting firm McKinsey & Company in his department had no influence on how he determined immigration targets for the country.

“I don’t have a relationship with representatives of McKinsey or Dominic Barton, if anybody had been curious,” Fraser said.

“The company had not advised me directly or influenced the decision-making about our immigration levels plan.”

He’s a Liberal which is the same as saying he’s a compulsive liar.

by Blazingcatfur•February 16, 2023February 15, 2023•0•"Mass Immigration - Follow the money", Canada's Corporate Welfare Class, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Canada's Corrupt Political Class

GOLDSTEIN: Trudeau, Tory, Ford and the failure of ethics

If parents want to point out to their children role models of ethical behaviour in public life, they should bypass the prime minister of Canada, the premier of Ontario and the mayor (for now) of Toronto.

by Blazingcatfur•February 15, 2023February 15, 2023•0•Canada's Corrupt Political Class

Sabrina Maddeaux: Under Trudeau, mediocre civil servants give themselves an A+

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre’s tagline “everything feels broken” elicits indignant eyerolls and denials from Liberals, but scathing new testimony from Parliamentary Budget Officer (PBO) Yves Giroux adds credibility to the claim.

On Tuesday, Giroux spoke to the Senate Finance Committee, delivering a series of what Politico called “sick burns” to paint a picture of a Liberal government and public service mired in dysfunction and old-fashioned laziness.

by Blazingcatfur•February 14, 2023February 14, 2023•0•Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Canada's Corrupt Political Class, Canada's Public Service Union Predator Class

Chinese Police Report Lists Location in a Richmond, BC, Mall as a Chinese Overseas Police Service Centre

An online post by a local police bureau in China lists a shopping mall location in Richmond, B.C., as one of the bureau’s affiliated Chinese overseas police service centres. The phone number of the centre matches the contact number of the B.C.-based Canadian Association of Nantong Merchants Abroad.

The post by the Nantong Public Security Bureau, which is being first reported in English by The Epoch Times, was published in July 2020. Nantong is a city in China’s eastern coastal province of Jiangsu.

by Blazingcatfur•February 14, 2023February 13, 2023•0•"Canada's China Class", "China - Communist Slave State", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Canada's Corrupt Political Class, Espionage

Emails show Trudeau minister’s office quashed details of $6,000-a-night London suite

Federal government staff were prepared for reporters to find out about the exorbitant hotel bill, including a more than $6,000-a-night suite, that politicians and government staff incurred while in London for the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II.

Internal documents show Global Affairs Canada (GAC) staff discussing weeks after the funeral how to avoid the embarrassment happening again with the coronation of King Charles.

by Blazingcatfur•February 13, 2023February 13, 2023•0•Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Canada's Corrupt Political Class

CSIS warned Trudeau about former Ontario Liberal Cabinet Minister Michael Chan’s alleged ties to suspected ChiCom intelligence operatives

CSIS warned Trudeau about Toronto-area politician’s alleged ties to Chinese diplomats

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and senior aides were warned on at least two occasions that government MPs should be cautious in their political dealings with former Ontario Liberal cabinet minister Michael Chan because of alleged ties to China’s consulate in Toronto, national-security sources say.

The Canadian Security Intelligence Service has a dossier on Mr. Chan that contains information on his activities in the 2019 and 2021 federal election campaigns and meetings with suspected Chinese intelligence operatives, according to the two security sources. The Globe and Mail is not identifying the sources, who risk prosecution under the Security of Information Act.

So Junior lied about being briefed on ChiCom activity. What a surprise. If not mistaken I recall Chan was Ontario’s immigration minister. Fabulous, policy by ChiCom spy.

by Blazingcatfur•February 13, 2023February 13, 2023•0•"Canada's China Class", "China - Communist Slave State", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Canada's Corrupt Political Class

Don Martin: Three ethical lapses tarnish the brand of all politicians

There’s been a sudden outbreak of queasy and sleazy ethical shortcomings as three senior politicians recently made headlines for having stretched, bent or broken the rules.

The premier of Canada’s most populous province, one of the prime minister’s favourite cabinet ministers and Canada’s biggest-city mayor faced difficult questions over their ethical conduct. One denies all wrongdoing, one admits to an oversight oopsie and the other quits over lousy moral judgment.

by Blazingcatfur•February 12, 2023February 12, 2023•0•Canada, Canada's Corrupt Political Class

Diane Francis: Can Canada’s welfare state survive Trudeau’s immigration targets?

Seven years of foolish Liberal immigration policy is cratering housing, health care and the middle class in the country’s two largest cities, Toronto and Vancouver. A new report by CIBC Capital Markets reveals that the overly rapid immigration problem is much more serious than most people realized.

… Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government is reducing the living standards of Canadians while at the same time attacking the country’s economic base and resource industries.

by Blazingcatfur•February 7, 2023February 7, 2023•0•"Mass Immigration - Follow the money", Canada's Corporate Welfare Class, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Canada's Corrupt Political Class

Still no answers on yearslong bread price-fixing scandal: law professor

It’s been more than five years since Canada’s Competition Bureau began its investigation into an alleged bread price-fixing scheme involving major grocery chains and bakeries countrywide.

But since then, no charges have been laid and the Bureau hasn’t released conclusions of its probe.

The vice-dean of research in Civil Law at the University of Ottawa says it raises questions about the watchdog’s ability to safeguard consumers or compel companies.

by Blazingcatfur•February 1, 2023January 31, 2023•0•Canada's Corporate Welfare Class, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Canada's Corrupt Political Class

Ottawa contracts comprise up to 10 per cent of McKinsey Canadian revenue

Global management consulting giant McKinsey and Company says its contracts with the federal government make up as much as 10 per cent of its gross revenue in Canada.

The Canadian revenue figures for McKinsey’s Canadian operations, contained in a U.S. court filing, show how integral federal government contracts are to the New York-based firm, which has offices in Toronto, Montreal, Calgary and Vancouver.

Ex-McKinsey Chief Dominic Barton has had an insidious influence on Canada’s immigration policy which now serves corporate greed exclusively.

Freeland lets us in on her and Junior’s cozy relationship with Barton.

UNEARTHED: @cafreeland talks about the deep personal relationship between herself, Dominic Barton, and @JustinTrudeau.

Barton was the managing partner at McKinsey. McKinsey got over $100 million in government contracts since Liberals took power. #cdnpoli pic.twitter.com/cPMbaaBERg

— Garnett Genuis (@GarnettGenuis) January 30, 2023

by Blazingcatfur•January 31, 2023January 31, 2023•0•"Mass Immigration - Follow the money", Canada's Corporate Welfare Class, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Canada's Corrupt Political Class