CSIS Warned About Him for Two Decades. Then a Clean Energy Scientist Allegedly Copied Thousands of Files for Beijing on the Eve of Retirement

CSIS Warned About Him for Two Decades. Then a Clean Energy Scientist Allegedly Copied Thousands of Files for Beijing on the Eve of Retirement

OTTAWA – A senior Natural Resources Canada scientist who court records say collaborated with Chinese counterparts on government energy research has been charged with breach of trust and unauthorized use of federal computers, as an Ontario Superior Court judge has ordered Canada’s national security agencies — including the Canadian Security Intelligence Service and the Privy Council Office — to disclose volumes of sensitive records in a high-profile foreign interference prosecution now heading to trial in Ottawa.

h/t handy n handsome

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Chinese EVs arrive in Canada … ready to mine your personal data with Carney government approval!

Chinese EVs arrive in Canada … ready to mine your personal data with Carney government approval!

A new automaker has entered Canada’s electric vehicle market giving some consumers looking to purchase a new vehicle more options.

Lotus, owned by the Chinese Geely Group, recently shipped its first Eletre EVs to Canada under a Canada-China deal signed in January. The premium SUV, made in Wuhan, is the first Chinese-owned and Chinese-built EV available for sale in Canada. The high-end vehicle starts at $119,000, while the fully loaded model sells for $159,000.

… Jody Thomas, Canada’s former National Security and Intelligence Advisor to prime minister Justin Trudeau, said that by law the Chinese state has access to any data gathered by the EVs.


Just the cost of doing business with the Chicoms.

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Canada Tells US There’s ‘No Basis’ for Forced Labour Tariffs

Canada Tells US There’s ‘No Basis’ for Forced Labour Tariffs

Ottawa told Washington its safeguards against imports made with forced labour are robust enough as the threat of additional U.S. tariffs looms.

The Canadian government filed an official response with the United States Trade Representative (USTR) on July 6, the deadline for doing so.

“Canada respectfully submits that there is no basis for the imposition of additional Section 301 duties on Canadian goods,” says the document. It argues Canada has an existing prohibition against forced labour goods and has introduced new legislative measures to reinforce the regime.

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Priced at Zero: What Beijing Pays for Operating in Canada

Priced at Zero: What Beijing Pays for Operating in Canada

OTTAWA — In late June Taiwan authorities arrested three tech executives over the alleged diversion of roughly $22 million in Nvidia AI servers bound for China. Taiwan’s President Lai Ching-te put forward new national security laws and created a new website where citizens can safely report PRC spies to authorities. Recently a Taiwan court sentenced a former spy named Lu Chi-hsien to more than 12 years in prison for leaking top-secret information to China.

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German car industry warns of job collapse unless ‘bold decisions’ made to address Chinese threat

German car industry warns of job collapse unless ‘bold decisions’ made to address Chinese threat

The German car industry has warned of a potential collapse of employment in the sector in Europe unless society and workers accept that “bold decisions” are needed to address competition from the Chinese and other rivals.

Volkswagen is preparing to formally propose up to 100,000 job losses, a move that has triggered a wave of protests.

The statement from the German Association of the Automotive Industry (VDA), which appears timed to coincide with this meeting, went as far as to say that handing some of the country’s car plants over to foreign ownership could be a way to save jobs.


I’m sure Carney will do just fine.

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Liberal party’s Beijing mole says Canada ’embarrasses’ him over response to Israel-Gaza war

Liberal party’s Beijing mole says Canada ’embarrasses’ him over response to Israel-Gaza war

Liberal-appointed Sen. Yuen Pau Woo says he is embarrassed by Canada’s response to the war in Gaza, accusing the federal government and Parliament of failing to do enough to stop what he described as a genocide.

Speaking during a videoconference with pro-Palestinian activists marking what organizers called “1,000 days of genocide” since Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023 attack on Israel, Woo said Canada has failed to meet its obligations under international law.

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U.S. flags concerns over Canada’s ties to China as it blocks CUSMA renewal

U.S. flags concerns over Canada’s ties to China as it blocks CUSMA renewal

The United States’ top trade official is pointing to Canada’s deepening economic ties with China as one of the reasons Washington is refusing to renew the Canada-U.S.-Mexico Agreement on free trade (CUSMA) in its current form.

Speaking to Global News on Thursday, U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer said the White House is concerned Beijing could use Canada as a back door into the American market.


My suspicion is the Americans are not much concerned with economic matters but worry more at the ChiCom compromised security risk Canada is becoming.

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Nearly Seven Tonnes of Drugs and Fentanyl Chemicals Seized in Richmond, Canadian City at the Heart of China’s Transnational Narco Economy

Nearly Seven Tonnes of Drugs and Fentanyl Chemicals Seized in Richmond, Canadian City at the Heart of China’s Transnational Narco Economy

VANCOUVER — A Burnaby RCMP investigation that began with a routine traffic stop last summer has ended in one of the largest drug-chemical seizures in British Columbia’s history — 6,765 kilograms of finished narcotics and fentanyl-production chemicals pulled from three homes and two shipping containers in Richmond, alongside tactical shotguns, cash, contraband cigarettes — and a multi-antenna device consistent with the signal jammers used to defeat electronic surveillance.

h/t Auntie Polly

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Chinese EV Deal Embeds Sabotage Risk in the Country’s Roads, Ports and Grids

Chinese EV Deal Embeds Sabotage Risk in the Country’s Roads, Ports and Grids

OTTAWA — China keeps finding inventive ways to burrow into the West, and Canada’s new appetite for Chinese electric vehicles may be the most consequential opening yet.

That is the warning at the center of a report published this week by the Macdonald-Laurier Institute and written by Brenda Shaffer, an energy and national-security specialist who teaches at the United States Naval Postgraduate School.

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Terry Glavin: Beijing offers a poisoned chalice. Carney shouldn’t drink from it

Terry Glavin: Beijing offers a poisoned chalice. Carney shouldn’t drink from it

It’s a war that’s underway everywhere, all the time. It’s being waged by Beijing and Moscow. It’s a hybrid war that confounds western intelligence agencies and transcends borders. Like conventional warfare, it involves mobilizations and sophisticated operations and devastating weaponry that lays waste to entire industries.

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Majority of Canadians see China as ‘significant threat,’ poll shows

Majority of Canadians see China as ‘significant threat,’ poll shows

New in-house federal research shows that Canadians see China as a bigger threat than Iran, according to Blacklock’s Reporter.

The poll by the Canadian Security Intelligence Service said that 70% saw Russia and 66% saw China as “significant threats” compared to only 34% who felt that way about Iran.

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Canada’s deal for Chinese EVs threatens trade with U.S., automakers warn

Canada’s deal for Chinese EVs threatens trade with U.S., automakers warn

OTTAWA — Canadian auto industry leaders panned Industry Minister Melanie Joly’s claim Monday that Chinese carmakers are interested in forming joint ventures to make electric vehicles with Canadian labour, parts and standards, and said Ottawa’s China push threatens Canada’s chances at getting a deal at the trade table with the United States.

As the July 1 deadline for renewal of the deal looms, and Ottawa is in the midst of a delicate dance with the Trump administration over how closely it is aligning with China, a trip in the past week by Joly to China accompanied by several mining, investment and business executives, but no Canadian carmakers, was seen as cause for concern.


Carney has to know what Joly is up to.

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If Canada Auto can’t survive, let it fade away. Courting China is not the solution

If Canada Auto can’t survive, let it fade away. Courting China is not the solution

Prime Minister Mark Carney was caught on a hot mic speaking with U.S. President Donald Trump on June 16 justifying Chinese EV imports. “Less than 3 per cent of our market, 49,000 cars,” Mr. Carney said on the sidelines of the G7 meeting in France. “It’s a cap, we capped, a hard line … I thought you’d actually like that.”

Mr. Trump does like it, Mr. Carney told reporters later.

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Anand won’t say if Chinese EVs will be banned under Canada’s forced labour law

Anand won’t say if Chinese EVs will be banned under Canada’s forced labour law

Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand refused to say whether Chinese-made electric vehicles could be banned under new federal legislation targeting products linked to forced labour, despite evidence that some Chinese auto supply chains rely on materials connected to Uyghur labour camps.

(Incognito)

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Motor Mouth: What the hell is Melanie Joly doing?

Motor Mouth: What the hell is Melanie Joly doing?

According to Wiktionary, a “mixed message” is “communication that contains contradictory, inconsistent, or unclear information, making it difficult for the receiver to understand the sender’s true intent, thoughts, or feelings.” If that be so, then Mark Carney’s recent “hot mic” moment at this week’s G7 summit and Melanie Joly’s (almost) simultaneous announcement she was heading to China to drum up some auto business might be the very definition of getting your wires crossed.

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