Government tip-off prompted spy agency to look into federal scientist, CSIS says

Government tip-off prompted spy agency to look into federal scientist, CSIS says

The country’s top spy agency says Natural Resources Canada approached it with concerns about former federal scientist Dennis Lu more than two decades ago, not the other way around — and has made a rare disclosure of one of its documents in court to set the record straight, CBC News has learned.

There are also new details about part of the reason for a 23-month delay between the last Canadian Security and Intelligence Service (CSIS) briefing about Lu to his employer in February 2021 and the start of Natural Resources’ internal investigation into Lu in January 2023.

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HANNAFORD: Time for Canadian Trump critics to face the China election interference facts

HANNAFORD: Time for Canadian Trump critics to face the China election interference facts

Whatever the ultimate truth of President Donald Trump’s allegations of Chinese meddling in American elections, Canadians have no excuse for the kind of reflexive dismissal in which the CBC indulged Friday. Despite their ruling class’s attempts to hush up and smooth over what they had allowed to happen, Canadians nevertheless know from what limited government admissions were made exactly what Beijing is capable of. Whether what Trump said is the exact or entire truth, or timed to influence the midterms, is not the point.

(Incognito)

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A Communist Party Talent-Recruitment Official Co-Wrote a Book With the Canadian Scientist Now Charged With Copying Thousands of Government Files

A Communist Party Talent-Recruitment Official Co-Wrote a Book With the Canadian Scientist Now Charged With Copying Thousands of Government Files

OTTAWA — Dennis Lu, the Natural Resources Canada scientist at the center of one of the most consequential foreign-interference prosecutions in the country’s history, co-authored a scholarly book on carbon-capture technology that his publisher released in December 2024 — months after Canada’s national security police had already detained him. The Bureau has confirmed Lu’s co-author was a Chinese professor who is also a Communist Party personnel official: the man who, since 2020, has helped run the recruiting machinery at Southeast University in Nanjing and today directs its Talent Work Office.

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Canadians Like Depraved Slave Labour Camp Called China More Than US Says Pew Research Survey

Canadians Like Depraved Slave Labour Camp Called China More Than US Says Pew Research Survey

Canadians’ opinions of the United States have deteriorated while their perceptions of China have improved compared to a few years ago, a new report suggests.

According to a Pew Research Center report released Wednesday, 44 per cent of Canadians surveyed between February and May hold a favourable view of China, while 33 per cent feel the same about the U.S. Last year, Canadians were “equally” favourable toward both countries. But in 2023, most Canadians had a “positive view” of the U.S. at 57 per cent, compared to 14 per cent that viewed China positively.

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America Isn’t the Enemy: The Wrongful Dismissal Case Shaking Ottawa’s China Strategy

America Isn’t the Enemy: The Wrongful Dismissal Case Shaking Ottawa’s China Strategy

I’m back with Jason James to discuss an explosive wrongful dismissal claim that I believe may get to the heart of Mark Carney’s pivot to Beijing — and to a larger question now facing Canada.

Who is this government really listening to?

The case involves Raquel Garbers, a senior Canadian defence policy specialist and military figure who, according to reporting on her legal claim, helped shape Canada’s Arctic and NORAD defence policy — the very architecture that binds Canadian and American security together against the real strategic threats facing North America.

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How many more times will Beijing fool Canada’s politicians?

How many more times will Beijing fool Canada’s politicians?

Nearly three months after Jennifer May’s four-year appointment as Canadian ambassador to China ended, the office remains dark, with little word about why.

This is obviously a key position in Canada’s diplomatic corps, but in an era of prioritizing trade relations, this office requires more than a sharp business mind.

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A Chinese University Affiliation, Chinese State Funding, and Warnings Ignored: The Dennis Lu Case Follows a Pattern Canada Has Seen Before

A Chinese University Affiliation, Chinese State Funding, and Warnings Ignored: The Dennis Lu Case Follows a Pattern Canada Has Seen Before

OTTAWA – Dennis Lu, the veteran federal scientist accused in an explosive foreign interference case echoing the scandal involving Dr. Xiangguo Qiu at Winnipeg’s National Microbiology Laboratory, published a book after his arrest that lists his institutional affiliation not as the Government of Canada, where he worked for nearly three decades, but as a Chinese university — one credited, along with the book, as receiving Chinese state funding and red-flagged by Australian security analysts for ties to Chinese intelligence.

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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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