Floor-crossing ChiCom 5th Columnist Liberal MP Michael Ma casts doubt on reports of forced labour in China

ChiCom assets: Carney tells Ma he came highly recommended by Xi Jinping

Floor-crossing Liberal MP Michael Ma casts doubt on reports of forced labour in China

OTTAWA – An MP who left the Conservatives to join the Liberals is casting doubt on reports of human rights abuses in China’s Xinjiang region.
MP Michael Ma asked an expert during a parliamentary committee hearing Thursday whether she’d seen forced labour with her own eyes.

“Have you witnessed forced labour in Xinjiang? Have you witnessed forced labour? Just a short answer — have you witnessed forced labour in Xinjiang, yes or no?” Ma said while questioning Margaret McCuaig-Johnston, a senior fellow at the University of Ottawa.


Carney blows Xi.

Update: Michael Ma says his comments came across as ‘dismissive of the serious issue of forced labour’

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Beijing’s “Two-State” Strategy Targets Indigenous Land Claims and Resources to Undermine Canada’s National Sovereignty, and Mark Carney’s PRC Pivot Makes It More Dangerous

VANCOUVER — At a moment when Canada is reassessing its economic sovereignty and Prime Minister Mark Carney is charting what he describes as a deeper strategic partnership with China, a long-running but poorly understood vulnerability is quietly advancing — one that cuts across the most sensitive fault lines in Canadian public life: Indigenous land rights, natural resource development, and Beijing’s patient, methodical campaign to secure the commodities it needs without ever having to negotiate with Ottawa.

The strategy, as intelligence documents obtained exclusively by The Bureau reveal, is not new. It is simply becoming more consequential.

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Canadian Senator’s Advocacy Group Classified as Chinese Communist Party United Front-Linked

China’s Senate mole

OTTAWA — Yuen Pau Woo, a Canadian senator who denounced a landmark American think tank report on Chinese Communist Party influence networks in Canada as disinformation, has himself been found to head an advocacy group that the report’s researcher now classifies as a United Front Work Department-linked organization — the 576th identified in Canada.

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How Mark Carney sold Canada to China

As Can Force One moved toward Chinese airspace, the delegation’s electronic devices were powered down and secured in signal-blocking bags. Burner phones were passed out: the only machines the public servants, staff and journalists would be allowed to use for the duration of their stay. The Canadian Prime Minister’s security team was taking no risks.

But Mark Carney himself was on his way to do something many back home would consider very risky indeed: signing agreements with Chinese President Xi Jinping on trade, global governance, energy, media access and law enforcement. The country Carney had called, only one year ago, Canada’s “biggest security threat,” was about to accomplish a magical transformation from frog to prince, from interfering foreign power to “strategic partner” in the “new world order.”

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China Is About to Lose Its Cuban Military Bases

Cuban society, due to a U.S. naval embargo, is close to collapse.

Friends of Havana blame the U.S., but the Trump administration had to act before China turned the island into a military bastion.

America took control of Venezuela’s national oil company, PDVSA, after the January 3 raid that resulted in the capture of Nicolás Maduro and his wife. Then the U.S. stopped the flow of Venezuelan oil to the Cuban regime.

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US FCC orders a ban on the import of all new foreign-made consumer Internet routers

The U.S. Federal Communications Commission said on Monday it was banning the import of all ​new foreign-made consumer routers, the latest crackdown on Chinese-made electronic gear over ‌security concerns.

China is estimated to control at least 60% of the U.S. market for home routers, boxes that connect computers, phones, and smart devices to the internet.

h/t Mauser

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A Russian-Linked Arms Trafficker and a Network of Corrupt African Officials Tried to Supply a Mexican Cartel With Anti-Aircraft Weapons

CJNG — already implicated in Iranian-directed death threats against a Canadian politician — was the intended recipient of a $58 million arsenal that included surface-to-air missiles, DOJ alleges.

WASHINGTON — Federal prosecutors in Virginia have charged four men — a Bulgarian arms trafficker with ties to the notorious Russian weapons dealer Viktor Bout, and several African co-conspirators with connections to the governments of Uganda and Tanzania — with conspiring to supply the Cartel de Jalisco Nueva Generación with a $58 million military arsenal that included rocket launchers, surface-to-air missiles, anti-aircraft drones, and high-powered explosives the brokers boasted could bring down helicopters.

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Human Rights Wasn’t ‘Proactively’ Raised During Carney’s China Visit: Privy Council

During Prime Minister Mark Carney’s visit to China in January, the issue of human rights wasn’t “proactively” raised during discussions with Chinese officials, according to the Privy Council Office (PCO).

“Topics of human rights and foreign interference were not brought up proactively by the Canadian Prime Minister,” says a document tabled in the House of Commons on March 13 by the PCO, which is sometimes referred to as the prime minister’s department.

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China Voted Against the World on Fentanyl. Days Later, It Announced a Perfunctory Crackdown.

WASHINGTON — One week after the United States publicly shamed Beijing as the only nation in the world to vote against a United Nations resolution targeting the fentanyl precursor supply chain, China’s Hubei Province has announced a series of enforcement actions that typifies the pattern of cosmetic compliance that has allowed the Chinese Communist Party’s structural role in the global fentanyl trade to persist unchallenged.

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How Canada’s embrace of Chinese EVs could scramble the American market

Americans will soon catch a glimpse of something North American politicians once tried to keep far away: cheap Chinese electric vehicles.

As Canada begins importing the EVs, U.S. residents in border cities like Detroit and Buffalo, New York, may see their northern neighbors at the wheel. Or American tourists visiting Canada may experience brands like Xiaomi, Leapmotor and BYD when taking a ride-share.

It’s a situation that the U.S. and Canada sought to avoid for years, worried that the introduction of China’s low-cost, high-tech EVs would undermine domestic automakers and lead to Chinese surveillance. But President Donald Trump’s 25 percent tariff on Canadian autos and auto parts has scrambled the North American auto market.

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From Montreal Labs to Tampa Streets: How a Canadian Synthetic Opioid Network Tied Chinese Precursor Suppliers to Mexican Cartel-Linked Indo-Canadian Gangs

TAMPA/MONTREAL — Almost two years after Canadian federal police raided two synthetic opioid labs in Quebec and seized millions of deadly pills, a 49-year-old Montreal-area man has been indicted on charges of importing a narcotic three times more lethal than fentanyl into the United States — a case that connects, through prior federal filings, to a Chinese fentanyl precursor supplier and Mexican cartel-linked trafficking network operating out of Vancouver.

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Canada’s Conservatives Want Chinese EVs Barred and Their Software Banned

Canada’s Conservative opposition leader Pierre Poilievre on Sunday unveiled a plan to double the country’s vehicle production.

Polievre called for a tariff-free auto pact with the United States while pledging to scrap both the Liberal government’s Chinese EV import quota and its electric vehicle mandate.

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Canada Bars a Senior Chinese Police Officer Over Crimes Against Humanity — as Carney Deepens Ties With the Same Security Apparatus

OTTAWA — A senior officer of China’s Public Security Bureau who spent more than three decades supervising interrogations and detentions in Hebei Province has been barred from Canadian permanent residency — along with his wife and child — after a federal immigration officer found reasonable grounds to believe he was complicit in the systematic torture of criminal suspects.

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“De Facto” Communist Party Intelligence Arm Met With Chrétien and Senator Woo During Canada Visit, Beijing Readout Shows

OTTAWA – A senior official from the Chinese Communist Party’s International Department met with former Prime Minister Jean Chrétien and Trudeau-appointed Senator Yuen Pau Woo during a four-day visit to Canada in March — a significant development given that Germany’s domestic intelligence service warned in 2023 that the body effectively operates like an intelligence service of the People’s Republic of China. The meetings were documented in a readout and photographs published on the department’s official website.

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Chinese EVs Could Put Canadians Critical of China at Risk

Chinese electric vehicles present risks for Canadians who are critical of Beijing, as the vehicles are capable of sending camera, microphone, and location data back to China, a former senior government official told MPs.

Margaret McCuaig-Johnston, a China expert and senior fellow at the University of Ottawa, told MPs on the House of Commons international trade committee on March 12 that Chinese-made vehicles include software from the Chinese technology company Baidu, which collects data from the vehicles and transmits it back to China.

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