Former CSIS chief warns that China ‘will acquire’ all information about you in Chinese EVs

Former CSIS chief warns that China ‘will acquire’ all information about you in Chinese EVs

OTTAWA — As Chinese electric vehicle manufacturers boost exports to Canada, the country’s former spy chief warned that everything you do in or around one of those cars will be acquired by China.

In a rare interview last month, former CSIS head David Vigneault did not mince his words: China’s theft of Western intellectual property amounts to a “lost generation of prosperity” for Canada. Furthermore, the Chinese government will use Chinese electric vehicles to further harvest data on Canadians and foreigners, he told the BBC’s The Interview.

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Leaders Like Mark Carney Sold the West a Renewable Energy Story. China Is Cashing In.

Leaders Like Mark Carney Sold the West a Renewable Energy Story. China Is Cashing In.

Responding to the current global energy crisis, many Western leaders have declared that the way to remove geopolitical threats to energy security is to transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy sources. This is a grave error. It rests on the faulty assumption that renewable energy is riskless, immune to price volatility, and secure because it is produced at home.

Follow the renewable energy deals far enough, and they mostly lead back to Beijing.

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MACLEOD: Carney’s ‘nation-building’ illusion — Canadian LNG, Canadian workers, but Chinese steel

MACLEOD: Carney’s ‘nation-building’ illusion — Canadian LNG, Canadian workers, but Chinese steel

Some moments in Canadian politics don’t need satire. You simply describe what the government is doing and let the absurdity speak for itself.

LNG Canada has announced a $33-billion Phase 2 expansion of its massive natural gas liquefaction plant at Kitimat, BC. This is exactly the kind of project Canada desperately needs: private investment, Canadian natural gas, thousands of construction jobs, and another major export route to Asia. The expansion will double LNG production from roughly 14 million to 28 million tonnes annually. That part should be celebrated.

Then we get to the steel.

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Beijing-Aligned ‘Reunification’ Groups Condemn Canadian MPs’ Taiwan Trip in Statement Published by Toronto Chinese-Language Site That Countered Election Interference Reporting

Beijing-Aligned ‘Reunification’ Groups Condemn Canadian MPs’ Taiwan Trip in Statement Published by Toronto Chinese-Language Site That Countered Election Interference Reporting

OTTAWA — As a cross-party delegation of Canadian members of Parliament traveled to Taiwan this week, a coalition of Chinese Canadian “reunification” associations demanded that the federal government “restrain its members of parliament from inappropriate behavior related to Taiwan.”

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Trump’s Birth Tourism Task Force Revokes Hundreds of Chinese Nationals’ Visas

Trump’s Birth Tourism Task Force Revokes Hundreds of Chinese Nationals’ Visas

President Donald Trump’s Birth Tourism Prevention Task Force has revoked more than 700 visas held by Chinese nationals since its launched in August.

“The Chinese birth tourism industry should not be allowed to profit from the privileges of American citizenship while undermining the integrity of our immigration laws,” a State Department spokesperson told the Daily Signal. “President Trump and Secretary Rubio are putting American interests first, strengthening enforcement, and making clear that the United States will not tolerate the deliberate exploitation of its visa process.”

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‘We’ve been too naive for too long’: How China is infiltrating Taiwan—and why the West should be heeding its warning

‘We’ve been too naive for too long’: How China is infiltrating Taiwan—and why the West should be heeding its warning

When Prime Minister Mark Carney stood in Beijing in January and said Canada’s new “strategic partnership” with China set both countries up for a “new world order,” it marked a striking reversal. Less than a year earlier, on the election campaign trail, Carney had named China as Canada’s biggest security threat. And a year before the trip, the Hogue Commission’s report on foreign interference concluded that China is the most persistent and sophisticated foreign interference threat to Canada’s democratic institutions and elections.

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Founder of Canada-China relations group, Liberal donor faces deportation for ‘war crimes’

Founder of Canada-China relations group, Liberal donor faces deportation for ‘war crimes’

ince arriving in Canada almost two decades ago, Rong Xiang Yuan has championed closer ties between Ottawa and Beijing, spoken at community events and rubbed shoulders with politicians.

The founder of an advocacy group called the Canada-China Association for Promoting Friendly Relations, he met Justin Trudeau and donated to the then-prime minister and the Liberal Party.

But Canada’s immigration enforcement department is now alleging the Chinese community leader, also known as “Tiger” Yuan, is a war criminal who lied his way into the country.


A war criminal? Hell he’s due for a standing O in parliament.

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Mark Carney warns against UK water sovereignty tells Burnham Thames Water nationalisation will anger investors, Canada and China among them

Mark Carney warns against UK water sovereignty tells Burnham Thames Water nationalisation will anger investors, Canada and China among them

Mark Carney has intervened over the potential nationalisation of Thames Water with a warning that it could damage foreign investment in Britain.

Canadian officials are growing increasingly concerned that any decision by Andy Burnham to place Thames Water under state control could result in heavy losses for overseas investors.

Ottawa is thought to have cautioned that any expropriation of privately owned assets without accompanying compensation could jeopardise further investment in the UK economy. Canada’s so-called
Maple Eight pension funds, and its banks have poured tens of billions into airports, ports, the energy sectors, key utilities and property.


So Carney will deny water sovereignty to the English.

No Brookfield but large positions by Canadian pension funds and of course China.

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From Xinjiang Fish Farms to Canadian supply chains: Ottawa Must Investigate

From Xinjiang Fish Farms to Canadian supply chains: Ottawa Must Investigate

Ottawa has been continuously warned that Canada is inextricably linked to forced labor within China’s seafood industry, yet a profound silence persists from the federal government. For years, the troubling narrative surrounding forced labor in China’s seafood sector was understood as a coastal issue. Investigators followed vulnerable Uyghur workers who were systematically transported thousands of kilometers away from their ancestral homes to fish-processing plants in Shandong, where they cleaned, cut, and packed seafood bound for North American and European supermarkets. While that reporting was shocking, it did not tell the whole story.

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A Hong Kong Bounty, a Liberal Lawmaker’s Toronto Consulate “Joke” and a RCMP Safety Warning Upended Joe Tay’s Federal Campaign. Now He’s Running Against the Same Man, With the RCMP File Unresolved

A Hong Kong Bounty, a Liberal Lawmaker’s Toronto Consulate “Joke” and a RCMP Safety Warning Upended Joe Tay’s Federal Campaign. Now He’s Running Against the Same Man, With the RCMP File Unresolved

MARKHAM, Ontario — Joe Tay reacted viscerally when a campaign volunteer sent him the photograph last week. On a strip of grass beside his yellow placard for Markham regional councillor stood a dark blue sign for Paul Chiang, the retired police officer and former Liberal member of Parliament who quit the 2025 federal election after suggesting to Chinese-language journalists, gathered in his constituency office in Markham–Unionville, that Tay be handed to China’s consulate in Toronto for a Hong Kong bounty.

Even though no one stood in that photo, just two signs, side by side, Tay said a chill ran down his spine.

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Search of alleged NATO spy’s online presence was not required for security clearance check, committee hears

Search of alleged NATO spy’s online presence was not required for security clearance check, committee hears

The government department responsible for granting secret clearance to the NATO intern arrested in July by Belgian police on suspicion of espionage was not required to look at her social media accounts or presence online before issuing her security clearance, a committee of MPs was told on Wednesday.

Global Affairs Canada granted former federal public servant Biwei Zhang security clearance before she took up her role at NATO last year, following vetting by the Canadian Security Intelligence Service and criminal record checks by the RCMP.


Sounds like enabling.

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FBI Arrests California Realtor at LAX, Alleging She Spied on Taiwan President’s Son for Beijing

FBI Arrests California Realtor at LAX, Alleging She Spied on Taiwan President’s Son for Beijing

LOS ANGELES — After the high-profile arrest Sunday at Los Angeles International Airport of a China-born real-estate agent accused of spying in Seattle on the family of Taiwan’s president, The Bureau found photographs placing her among members of an association linked to President Xi Jinping’s prior California visit, anti-Taiwan advocacy, and Beijing’s so-called United Front networks.

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