Ah, the Biden visit.
One of the more empty moments of our turbulent times. A distracted American president and a troubled Canadian prime minister sharing a plate and oozing mutual admiration.
Bring on the appetizers.
Wonderful to see the U.S. president finally drop by. A Canadian visit used to be the first “foreign” stop on every new American president’s itinerary. But better late than never at all.
The China interference controversy is more explosive than the SNC-Lavalin, blackface/brownface or WE Charity scandals, and could carry serious fallout for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, says Prof. Duane Bratt of the Mount Royal University.
China’s attempts to interfere in Canadian elections is politically more explosive than the SNC-Lavalin, blackface/brownface and the WE Charity scandals, and its fallout could carry serious consequences for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s personal political career and the Liberal Party in the next election, say politicos.
“You’re dealing with a very tired government that has these other scandals in the past, but this goes to the heart of Canadian democracy,” said Duane Bratt, a professor of political science at the Mount Royal University, in an interview with The Hill Times. “It is very serious and very damaging.”
h/t KH
MP Han Dong says he has retained a lawyer and plans to sue Global News after it published a story alleging he advised a senior Chinese diplomat in February 2021 that Beijing should hold off on freeing Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor — the two Canadians being held by China at the time.
Dong, who left Liberal caucus last week, confirmed to Global that he had a discussion with Consul General Han Tao but emphatically denied that he had advised Beijing to delay releasing the two Canadians.
If Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was going to take seriously foreign interference in Canada’s democratic institutions, it would have happened after he received the Aug. 30, 2019 annual report of the National Security and Intelligence Committee of Parliamentarians. (NSICOP)
Pierre Poilievre’s venture into the Greater Toronto Area’s Chinese community in January was in some ways a standard bit of politicking.
He broke bread with community leaders, answered questions from Chinese-language news media and even said a few words in Chinese, an unremarkable outreach to an important block of ethnic voters.
More notable were some of the others at the meetings.
Don’t expect Poilievre to renounce these tainted relationships. We really are a Banana Republic.
Han Dong to sue!
Please see my statement below. pic.twitter.com/7NgcDKSaXy
— Han Dong (@handongontario) March 27, 2023
Unlike many “bombshells” during the Trump administration, the latest potential bombshell story out of Washington, which may involve President Biden, was based not on “sources close to the White House” or “an unnamed administration official” but, rather, on receipts.
Bank record receipts, to be precise.
Canadian leaks have not damaged intelligence sharing relationship, senior U.S. official says
A senior American national security official says Canadian leaks of information around allegations of foreign election interference from China have not affected key international intelligence sharing relationships.
“There’s no breach of trust with Canada or the Five Eyes relationship whatsoever,” said John Kirby, co-ordinator for strategic communications at the National Security Council, in an interview Sunday on Rosemary Barton Live. The Five Eyes alliance is made up of Canada, the United Kingdom, the United States, Australia and New Zealand.
This is the CBC running propaganda for the LPC. They were asked to polish the turd and find someone to speak nicely about Junior. My bet is 5 Eyes considers Trudeau a rat.
There’s a reason Canada wasn’t invited to join AUKUS and it is well known that Canada is no longer considered a reliable partner.
Kirby is retired and works for the National Security Council in communications, he does not advise the President personally and it is doubtful he has access to real information concerning Canada’s status within 5 Eyes, none that he could divulge at any rate. This was a staged pat on the back for optics, all part of the game. It’s not as if it’s his place to publicly denounce our Useful Idiot PM to fangirl Rosie.
OTTAWA — I admire the Right Hon. David Johnston. Which is why I was disappointed that he accepted Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s invitation to serve as a “special rapporteur” regarding the Chinese regime’s interference in our elections. Trudeau has an uncanny ability to drag those around him down.
Johnston was brought down by his own doing. He is a CCP dupe like our idiot PM. They already inhabit the reputational slums of Canada’s despised “China Class.”
CCP propagandists will no doubt relish the opportunities that new AI chatbots will provide
The Chinese Communist Party faces a conundrum: it wants to lead the world in artificial intelligence and yet it is terrified of anything with a mind of its own. Chinese regulators have reportedly told domestic tech companies not to offer their users ChatGPT, the Microsoft-funded chatbot that can provide seemingly well-researched answers to pretty much any question you can think to ask it. China Daily, a CCP mouthpiece, has admitted that the technology has already gone “viral” in China. The paper said that AI could give “a helping hand to the US government in its spread of disinformation and its manipulation of global narratives for its own geopolitical interests.”
For all Chinese President Xi Jinping’s declarations of support for Russia during his state visit to Moscow, China’s real motive in seeking closer ties is evidently to exploit the Ukraine conflict to test its military firepower.
Just as Iran has used Ukraine’s brutal war to test the effectiveness of its drone and missile technology, so China’s emerging industrial-military complex is reportedly looking for opportunities to conduct a rigorous evaluation of its new weapons systems; Chinese arms manufacturers are reportedly keen to test the effectiveness of their new weapons systems in Ukraine.
The true threat to Canadian democracy from the infiltration of the Liberal Party of Canada by China’s communist government is not that the outcome of elections has been altered, but rather that the government has been compromised in its ability to serve Canadians by caucus members and staffers who are nearly as loyal to a hostile foreign power as they are to this country.
No question that Canada has a serious China problem, but it is one of several.
Multiculturalism and bad immigration practices have balkanized Canada to the point where we are now a nation of imported Fifth Columns.
… Global News reviewed all statements made by Dong in Parliament since he was elected in 2019 and found no remarks related to the Two Michaels or calls for their freedom prior to March 2023.
Dong did not respond to questions about where he’s previously made such statements.
It’s only going to be a matter of time before an independent public inquiry is held to investigate alleged Chinese Communist Party interference in Canada’s democratic system. The longer the Trudeau Liberals continue to kick the can down the road, the more the leaks of damning security agency documents indicating CCP interference will pile up. Whoever the whistleblower may be, they clearly have no plan to stop releasing documents until action on the matter is taken.
When China talks about winning without fighting, it essentially means without us fighting back. And that comes down to getting into our heads and disabling us from the inside.
On November 28, 2020, Di Dongsheng, vice dean of the School of International Relations at Renmin University in Beijing, gave a videotaped lecture in which he said:
Why did China and the U.S. used to be able to settle all kinds of issues between 1992 and 2016? It’s just because we have people at the top. We have our old friends who are at the top of America’s core inner circle of power and influence . . . for the past thirty years, forty years, we have been utilizing the core power of the United States.
Thanks to the extremely dubious leadership of the Biden Administration, Iran and China have become more empowered and emboldened than ever. The Chinese Communist Party and the ruling Islamist mullahs of Iran have been conveniently violating US sanctions without facing any consequences from the Biden administration.
