This Researcher Thinks Canada Is an Easy Target for the CCP

This Researcher Thinks Canada Is an Easy Target for the CCP

As a NATO member and U.S. ally, Canada is a natural target for Beijing’s overseas influence operations, according to Peter Mattis, China expert and president of the U.S.-based think tank The Jamestown Foundation.

However, Canada is particularly vulnerable, Matti says, as the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) views it as an easy target for several reasons.

One factor is a lack of strong controls against CCP interference in Canada, Mattis said in an interview with Jan Jekielek, senior editor and host of The Epoch Times’ “American Thought Leaders.”

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Howard Lutnick’s right. Canada needs to limit EV trade with China

Howard Lutnick’s right. Canada needs to limit EV trade with China

Was Prime Minister Mark Carney “nuts” to make a deal to import electric vehicles from China? That’s what Howard Lutnick says. “Carney has a problem with us,” the U.S. Commerce Secretary told a conference audience April 17. “He gets on a plane and he goes to China. Does he think the Chinese economy’s gonna buy his stuff? China is entirely an export-driven economy!”

Lutnick’s style was crude, his attitude abrasive. The deal he trashed was arguably a rational tactic to buy Canada’s canola sector some short-term breathing space. But on the challenges of trading with China, he wasn’t wrong.

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Pacific Mall in Markham is a ‘trade barrier,’ says the U.S. Here’s why — and why that may be changing

Pacific Mall in Markham is a ‘trade barrier,’ says the U.S. Here’s why — and why that may be changing

Andrew Carandang and Jonathan Pan have been coming to Markham’s Pacific Mall for as long as they can remember — but there are still surprises to be had.

“They sell tools here?” Pan said, walking through the mall’s glass-box maze of more than 350 stores and stalls.

Three years ago the lifelong friends brought their online vintage clothing business Legacy Toronto into a physical store here, in what a sign inside brags is the largest indoor Asian mall in North America: “You must see it.”


The Star celebrates counterfeit goods.

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Auto industry warns China EV tariff concession risks Canadian jobs and investment

Auto industry warns China EV tariff concession risks Canadian jobs and investment

Canada’s auto sector is warning that a federal decision to ease tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles could undermine domestic manufacturing and weaken North American supply chains, as executives say the policy puts Canadian jobs at risk.

The concerns were raised at a Commons science committee hearing after cabinet approved a quota allowing up to 49,000 Chinese-made battery electric vehicles into the Canadian market this year at reduced tariff levels, with the cap set to increase by 6.5% annually.

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Parliament’s Ethics Committee Calls on Carney to Sell Brookfield Stakes, Citing Reporting From The Bureau on His China Business Ties and CCP Official Meetings

Parliament’s Ethics Committee Calls on Carney to Sell Brookfield Stakes, Citing Reporting From The Bureau on His China Business Ties and CCP Official Meetings

OTTAWA — A landmark parliamentary ethics report recommends that Prime Minister Mark Carney — and all future prime ministers — be required to sell their investments within 60 days of taking office, while citing this reporter’s testimony on The Bureau‘s reporting into Carney’s China-linked business exposure and high-level Chinese Communist Party official visits.

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‘We have to be very cautious’: Former Tory leader Erin O’Toole’s advice to PM Carney on China

‘We have to be very cautious’: Former Tory leader Erin O’Toole’s advice to PM Carney on China

Former Conservative leader Erin O’Toole is cautioning the prime minister that despite the need to diversify trade, China is not a substitute for the United States.

O’Toole has been tapped to join Prime Minister Mark Carney’s 24-member Canada-U.S. Advisory Committee, unveiled this week as a formal review of the countries’ trilateral trade deal with Mexico fast approaches.

More than a year into a protracted trade war with the United States, meanwhile, Carney is once again emphasizing a shift in the relationship with Canada’s closest neighbour, describing Canada’s ties to the U.S. as a “weakness” in a social media video last Sunday.

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Celebrity tag-a-long Justin Trudeau says U.S. economic coercion risks pushing Canada closer to China

Celebrity tag-a-long Justin Trudeau says U.S. economic coercion risks pushing Canada closer to China

Former prime minister Justin Trudeau is warning that U.S. tariffs threaten to drive Canada closer to China in the auto sector.

Speaking at a CNBC event in Singapore on Thursday, Trudeau said “economic pressures and coercion” nearly drove Canadian aerospace company Bombardier “into China’s arms” almost a decade ago.

Canada’s Kamala Harris.

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Best-selling Chinese electric car records everywhere you’ve been

Best-selling Chinese electric car records everywhere you’ve been

Electric cars made by a best-selling Chinese brand are recording drivers’ every journey and storing them forever, it has emerged.

Security researchers were able to extract the entire location history of a BYD Seal car sold in the UK, from its production in China to its eventual dismantling.

While the company said it was not transmitting location data overseas, experts said the ease with which location history could be obtained represented a security risk.


BYD is moving into the Canadian market.

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Defense for Chinese National in U.S. Fentanyl Case Proposes Testimony From China-Based Witness

Defense for Chinese National in U.S. Fentanyl Case Proposes Testimony From China-Based Witness

TEXAS – A landmark U.S. fentanyl-trafficking prosecution that investigators say reaches from Texas and Mexico into China’s chemical supply chains has taken a new turn, with defense lawyers for accused broker Minsu “Fernando” Fang asking a federal judge to authorize the deposition of a witness in Shenzhen, China, whom they claim can provide exculpatory evidence.

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Expect Trump to try to punish Canada for not bending the knee

Expect Trump to try to punish Canada for not bending the knee

We’ve been warned for months that Canada faces exceedingly tough talks on renewing the CUSMA/USMCA trade deal. With Donald Trump blowing off the importance of Canada (“we don’t need anything they have”), it was shaping up as a cage match at the negotiating table.

As of this week, though, we face the very real possibility of an even more ominous prospect as the July 1 date for agreement or not-agreement on re-upping CUSMA approaches: no talks at all.

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Parliamentary record contradicts Liberal MP’s claim about forced labour comments … Beijing Stooge Silent

Parliamentary record contradicts Liberal MP’s claim about forced labour comments … Beijing Stooge Silent

OTTAWA — Parliament’s official record shows Liberal MP Michael Ma was referring to Xinjiang — a region in China where reports of forced labour have been documented — in a committee meeting last month, contradicting the MP’s claims that he was misheard during a contentious exchange with a witness.

Ma was also given the opportunity to correct the official transcript and didn’t do so, the office of the Speaker of the House of Commons told the Star.


Carney is Beijing’s stooge.

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Canadian Senator’s Anti-‘Foreign Interference Hysteria’ Group Invites Elected Officials to Fundraiser After Parliament Clash Over United Front Findings

Canadian Senator’s Anti-‘Foreign Interference Hysteria’ Group Invites Elected Officials to Fundraiser After Parliament Clash Over United Front Findings

TORONTO — Days after a former Central Intelligence Agency analyst testified in Parliament about a sitting Canadian senator’s group’s alleged ties to the Chinese Communist Party, that group, led by Liberal-appointed Senator Yuen Pau Woo and former Conservative senator Victor Oh, reached out to elected officials in the Toronto area and invited them to a fundraising gala.

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Arrests Made in Project Lighthouse, First-of-its-Kind SMS Blaster Investigation in Canada

Arrests Made in Project Lighthouse, First-of-its-Kind SMS Blaster Investigation in Canada

The Toronto Police Service has made arrests in a first-of-its-kind investigation, dubbed Project Lighthouse, into the use of a mobile “SMS blaster” — a sophisticated cybercrime tool not previously detected in Canada.

This investigation marks the first known instance of this technology being deployed in Canada and highlights an emerging threat to both public safety and financial security.

“This is a new and emerging threat in Canada — one that uses advanced technology to reach thousands of people at once and exploit their trust,” said Deputy Chief Robert Johnson. “As the first investigation of its kind in this country, it reflects how the Toronto Police Service is adapting quickly to detect and disrupt complex cyber-enabled crime. I’m proud of the work done by our Coordinated Cyber Centre and grateful to our policing and industry partners who helped bring this investigation forward.”

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Joe Varner: Canada needs to pay attention to China’s military purges before betting on Beijing

Joe Varner: Canada needs to pay attention to China’s military purges before betting on Beijing

On Sunday morning, when Mark Carney declared that Canada’s historic closeness with the United States now represents “weaknesses,” he opened the door to a fundamental rethinking of Canadian foreign policy. But if diversification means turning toward China, Canadians deserve a clear-eyed assessment of the risks, not just the opportunities. That assessment becomes far more complicated when viewed against what is now unfolding inside China’s military leadership.

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Canada, U.S. trade systems ‘don’t fit together very well,’ Greer says

Canada, U.S. trade systems ‘don’t fit together very well,’ Greer says

U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer says there is a gap between the Canada and U.S. administrations’ trade philosophies.

Greer made the comments at a U.S. House Ways and Means Committee hearing on U.S. President Donald Trump’s trade agenda on Wednesday.

“They’ve done this, but overall they’ve indicated that they want to be trading more, they want to have more trade agreements with more countries,” Greer said, when asked whether Canada is taking the same steps as Mexico to better align with U.S. trade policy, specifically when it comes to rules of origin.

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