Canadian opposition parties are welcome to suggest who should serve as the “special rapporteur” charged with overseeing investigations into alleged Chinese interference, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says.
“China – Communist Slave State”
Poilievre accuses Trudeau of playing into China’s hands by refusing public inquiry on foreign interference
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre accused Prime Minster Justin Trudeau of playing into China’s hands by refusing to hold a public inquiry on foreign interference.
Mr. Poilievre called a news conference Tuesday to respond to the Prime Minister’s decision to name two closed door panels to investigate Chinese election interference that would later be reviewed by a special rapporteur appointed by him.
The Daring Ruse That Exposed China’s Campaign to Steal American Secrets
How the downfall of one intelligence agent revealed the astonishing depth of Chinese industrial espionage.
In March 2017, an engineer at G.E. Aviation in Cincinnati whom I will refer to using part of his Chinese given name — received a request on LinkedIn. Hua is in his 40s, tall and athletic, with a boyish face that makes him look a decade younger. He moved to the United States from China in 2003 for graduate studies in structural engineering. After earning his Ph.D. in 2007, he went to work for G.E., first at the company’s research facility in Niskayuna, N.Y., for a few years, then at G.E. Aviation.
The LinkedIn request came from Chen Feng, a school official at the Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics (N.U.A.A.), in eastern China. Like most people who use LinkedIn, Hua was accustomed to connecting with professionals on the site whom he didn’t know personally, so the request did not strike him as unusual. “I didn’t even think much about it before accepting,” Hua told me. Days later, Chen sent him an email inviting him to N.U.A.A. to give a research presentation.
Trudeau launches an investigation into everything but his government, his party or himself
That was a neat trick the Prime Minister pulled off Monday evening.
I don’t mean just the breathtaking change in communications strategy, on the issue that threatens to devour his government: foreign (specifically Chinese) interference in our elections. The sullen stonewalling of the last several weeks was instantly transformed into a dazzling pinwheel of apparent activity: multiple investigations, a pledge to consult on implementing a foreign agent registry, a promise to appoint a National Counter Foreign Interference Co-ordinator, a vow to start implementing some of the recommendations it had received from previous investigations, etc.
Canada roiled by leaked intelligence reports of Chinese election ‘meddling’
A flurry of leaked intelligence reports has reignited allegations that China interfered in Canada’s recent federal elections, kicking off a fierce debate over possible responses to Beijing’s meddling.
But the leaks also run the risk of harming Canada’s reputation among its allies, experts warn, as the country’s spy agency struggles to respond to mounting public concern.
Opposition leaders have pushed the prime minister, Justin Trudeau, for a public inquiry into how China attempted to sway the result of two federal elections in its favour.
For the Liberals’ sake (and democracy) Trudeau needs clearer answers on foreign interference
To understand why Justin Trudeau appeared before reporters on Monday evening to outline new steps in his government’s response to China’s alleged attempts to interfere in Canada’s political process, one only has to take note of what was said about Trudeau in the House of Commons on Monday afternoon.
In the first question period since the controversy over foreign interference came to a boil, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre alleged that “for 10 years the Communist dictatorship in Beijing has been helping the prime minister” and that “we have had 10 years of cover-ups from the prime minister.”
Trudeau needs to resign. He’s a China whore.
Top US high school collaborated with Chinese state military-affiliated institution
The top public school in the United States received hundreds of thousands of dollars from groups tied to China’s military.
Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology (TJHSST), part of Fairfax County Public Schools, is consistently ranked as the top high school in the nation. However, this element of its ties to Beijing has been largely unknown — until now.
Canada to my knowledge does not cultivate “top schools” though if they did it would probably be based on how many cross-dressers they could field.
Don Martin: Trudeau goes from standstill to ‘panic mode’ on Chinese interference
Finally and inevitably, he waved the white flag.
An inquiry if necessary, but not necessarily an inquiry, will likely be called to probe allegations of Chinese interference in Canada’s elections.
This after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau surrendered to intense internal and external pressure and reluctantly pledged action after weeks of denying any further action was needed.
Singh should be orchestrating Juniors ouster, this rapporteur farce is a deliberate waste of time.
Trudeau announces investigations into foreign interference including committee, special rapporteur
Trudeau asked the national security committee, which he has often ignored in the past, to investigate election interference
OTTAWA – Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is asking a parliamentary committee, an independent review agency and a special rapporteur to investigate claims China influenced Canada’s elections unfairly.
A scrambling Trudeau’s half turn on interference
When the word came that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was going to make an announcement about foreign interference in Canadian elections, speculation mounted about what new thing this would be.
The answer was that there wasn’t much new, except for an unnamed new person, in the unfamiliar new role of “special rapporteur,” who would be empowered to recommend what should be done next. Including whether there should be an inquiry.
Make no mistake, this was a scrambling stall tactic, a way to hold off the critics baying for a public inquiry into Beijing’s interference in Canada’s elections. Those critics include the NDP, Mr. Trudeau’s partners in a parliamentary alliance that keeps his minority government in power.
Doubt has been sown in Canada’s democracy. This cannot stand
When I was initially contacted by the media last month concerning the Chinese government’s reported interference in our 2019 and 2021 general elections, I stated that a public inquiry was required to pursue the matter as fully as possible by an independent authority. It was important, I believed, for the full restoration of the trust and the confidence in our electoral system.
Nothing that has been publicly divulged since has caused me to reconsider my call for a public inquiry. To the contrary, I have only been further convinced that it is the only course of action that will satisfy Canadians in coming to terms with what CSIS documents described as a brazen invasion of our electoral system by Beijing. My reaction would be the same no matter which foreign entity was sowing doubt in our democracy: Our elections belong to us and to no one else, and the mere threat that this is not 100-per-cent the case demands significant action.
Trudeau lays out multipronged foreign interference probes but no inquiry — yet
But none of the steps in Trudeau’s multipronged approach included a public inquiry, which opposition leaders had signalled earlier in the day was the only method of investigation they would support.
Instead, the decision on whether or not to call such an inquiry will be made by an independent, special rapporteur who will have a “wide mandate” to oversee the new probes and make recommendations on how Ottawa can better combat foreign interference and inform the public about such attempts.
Trudeau to task intelligence watchdog with investigating foreign interference in Canada: source
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is asking the National Security and Intelligence Committee of Parliamentarians — one of the country’s intelligence watchdogs — to launch a new investigation of foreign election interference in Canada, CBC News has confirmed.
The news was first reported by the Canadian Press.
Trudeau is expected to lay out more details during a news conference at 5:30 p.m. ET. CBC News will carry it live.
How far will Trudeau go to keep public from finding out details of Beijing’s election interference?
… In June 2021, when the House demanded documents related to the Winnipeg Lab and Chinese scientists escorted out, the Trudeau government not only refused to release the information, but they also went to court to stop its release.
Why are we so dismissive of our spies?
… In Australia, the senior intelligence leader is by law required to make an annual public report to the country. Neither our signals intelligence agency, CSE, nor CSIS, ever make such public accountability reports.
Canada’s intelligence community clings to secrecy and is sometimes highly economical with the truth. Jody Thomas, the prime minister’s national security adviser, delivered a deeply humiliating performance before a Commons investigative committee last week, smugly declaring, “What I know, you cannot know.”
I’m glad of the CSIS leak informing us the ChiComs own the Liberal Party. Assuming it came from CSIS. I am not so sure it did.
The world is being reshaped on a scale not seen since WW II. Justin Trudeau, Canada’s China Class and the Liberal Party are likely considered security risks and irritants to be swept aside.