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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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.
OTTAWA — An explosive wrongful-dismissal lawsuit that claims a senior defence official was fired after warning that Ottawa’s anti-American rhetoric was handing a gift to Canada’s real adversaries, China and Russia, casts an article by a veteran Ottawa newspaper reporter as a turning point in the government’s posture toward her — a characterization the reporter firmly rejects.
OTTAWA — For the first time, a Federal Court judge has authorized Canada’s intelligence service to hack into privately owned routers, servers and household internet devices across the country and disarm the malicious software that conscripts them into foreign botnets — virtual armies implanted by hostile states to act as trojan horses, attacking critical Canadian infrastructure from within Canadian homes — a power the court itself acknowledged would otherwise be a crime.
Canada’s Industry Minister Mélanie Joly is in China this week courting four Chinese automakers she wants to build electric vehicles on Canadian soil, the clearest test yet of whether Ottawa can convert tariff relief into local factories.
Joly is meeting BYD, Chery, Geely and Shanghai Launch Automotive Technology, each of which has been weighing a Canadian investment, she told The Globe and Mail.
Protect 500,000 Canadian Jobs? Liars.
CBC Just said it! There are very FEW jobs in Chinese EV assembly plants. This featured plant can make 400,000+ EVs/Year and is heavily SUBSIDIZED by China. Yes, they control the EV market, but DON’T PROFIT from that enterprise! IF any come to Canada, it will be to hammer the… https://t.co/kTI8VSarvl
— Mike McLean (@MikeMcL00531595) June 16, 2026
Mark Carney’s industry minister, Melanie Joly, is in China trying to attract auto investment while Carney’s government attempts to kill off our existing auto industry. In an interview with the Globe and Mail, Joly explained how she wants Chinese-made electric vehicles to be built in Canada.
The question should always be “How does this benefit Brookfield?”
Carney the “Master Negotiator” is negotiating his cut from the death of our auto industry. Blame Xi or Trump Carney remains a carpetbagger nothing more.
Unless the real reason is cozying up to China https://t.co/hEM5wNtYT3
— Diane Weber Bederman (@dianebederman) June 16, 2026
Prime Minister Mark Carney may not have a bilateral meeting planned yet with U.S. President Donald Trump, but a hot microphone caught them talking about trade at the G7 leaders’ summit in Évian-les-Bains, France.
Carney can be seen on camera, leaning in to talk to Trump, who was sitting at the leaders’ table ahead of a working luncheon.
A microphone in the room faintly picks them up, apparently talking about Canada’s recent agreement with China to allow a small number of Chinese EVs into the Canadian market at a lower tariff rate.
The CBC is optimistic all our troubles are solved.
Industry Minister Mélanie Joly says she will be meeting with four Chinese companies that are considering building electric vehicles in Canada when she visits China this week in an effort to attract investment to this country’s auto sector.
The four companies – BYD, Chery, Geely and Shanghai Launch Automotive Technology – have been examining possible investments in Canada, Ms. Joly said in an interview. Shanghai Launch’s proposal includes a partnership with British automaker Austin Motor Co., she added.
Canada is a very small market, without US access the ChiComs will just smile and wave at Joly but if she offers to subsidize China’s slavers with tax payer dollars they might perk up a bit.
As electric vehicles make their way here on cargo ships from China, export markets like Canada are becoming ever more crucial to Chinese carmakers during a seismic shift in the global auto industry.
Dozens of those companies are grappling with factors at home that have driven them to focus on selling cars to other countries to keep up production levels. Meanwhile, overseas markets are attempting to balance accepting a new era of Chinese EV dominance with protecting any existing auto industries through tariffs and import caps.
Carney is one sick sociopath.
Cabinet would gain powers to exempt Chinese imports from slave labour ban under Bill #C35 tabled Friday.
PM @MarkJCarney has already granted Chinese automakers access to Canadian market though their battery electric cars include slave-made parts.https://t.co/GK1MO3OBmg… pic.twitter.com/qThqG9n57g— Holly Doan (@hollyanndoan) June 15, 2026
WASHINGTON — A website seized this week by U.S. authorities as part of a Chinese intelligence-linked recruitment operation used the exact name and registered address of a Toronto-based company incorporated eight years earlier.
