We’ve known for a long time that Trudeau admires China’s basic dictatorship, but now we also know how much China’s dictatorship admires Trudeau!
Over the last few weeks, there have been numerous leaks from the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) documenting connections between the Chinese Communist Party and Trudeau and his Liberal Party.
In recent days we’ve learned that the Chinese Communist Party engaged in broad political interference in Canadian elections in the form of disinformation campaigns, undeclared cash donations and the use of Chinese students studying in Canada as campaign volunteers to support preferred candidates.
What has Trudeau’s response been to this damning news?
He’s criticized CSIS officials, demanding they weed out whoever is making these leaks, and dodged any questions about an independent inquiry.
Instead of holding China accountable for interfering in our politics, Trudeau is attacking our own intelligence services for working to protect us! It’s unbelievable!
And what does Pierre Poilievre have to say about this? He’s too scared of being labelled a racist to offer any real opposition.
In a statement issued earlier this week, Pierre referred to the Chinese government as the “Beijing Communist Party” rather than its true name, the Chinese Communist Party.
He’s scared Trudeau or the corporate media will call him racist if he uses the word “Chinese”!
Here is what needs to happen starting immediately:
We need an INDEPENDENT inquiry into all claims of election interference. The Commissioner of this inquiry can not be another hand-picked Liberal insider like we saw with the Freedom Convoy inquiry. It must be a non-partisan judge who will act in the interest of Canadians, not Justin Trudeau.
There must be an independent audit of the Trudeau Foundation. We know that the Chinese Communist Party donated $1 million to buy Trudeau’s favour. How many more bribes have been laundered through the Trudeau Foundation from foreign governments, pharmaceutical companies, or super rich elites?
Don Valley North MP, Han Dong, must resign immediately, as well as any other MP whose election or nomination contest was affected by foreign interference. There must be prompt, free, and fair by-elections held in all these ridings.
Finally, and most importantly, Trudeau must RESIGN as Prime Minister and MP for Papineau.
These CSIS leaks have made it clear to Canadians and the world that Trudeau does not have the credibility, moral authority, or integrity to continue governing Canada. Therefore, he must step down immediately to restore faith in our government and institutions.
It was in the year 1971 that ex-Liberal Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau first engaged with the communist government of China. A series of meetings with Chairman Mao Tse Tung on Chinese soil set the course for what emerged a half-century later: exposure of the Chinese government’s interference in the past two Canadian federal elections.
The idea that no connection exists between communist enthusiast Pierre and current PM Justin Trudeau is something both government and media wish to keep hidden from awareness of the Canadian people.
Cultural Action Party has, in one form or another, spent past 30 years attempting to expose the nature of this covert relationship. For brevity’s sake, we stick with fundamentals that Canadians are likely unaware of:
— Canada’s relationship with China is old. It began with cooperation between Bank of Montreal(BMO) and the Bank of China in the late 1800’s.
— In 1971, approximately eight months after meeting with Chairman Mao, Pierre Trudeau cancelled Canada’s bi-cultural English & French Canadian identity. The degree of input from the Canadian people amounted to a total of nothing. Devoid of public consent, PET forced multiculturalism upon an unsuspecting, and largely naive, Canadian public.
The first wave of immigration in the wake of Canada’s nascent cultural transformation were Chinese migrants. To this day, media have eschewed the fact that financial donations from the Chinese government resulted in a reorientation of the Canadian education system.
Marxist philosophy infiltration of our universities kick-started a trend brought to a pinnacle by current PM Justin Trudeau: the fine art of national self-loathing. The outcome was the downfall of national pride in country. Say no-go to “1-2-3 Canadians we love thee,” as manifest in promotional campaigns for Montreal’s Expo 1967. Transitioning to self-hatred time in Canada, Pierre Trudeau set the stage for globalization of our country.
Fast forward to the 1980’s, and we discover the establishment of the Canada-China Business Council. This is the point when modern Canada became economically integrated with the business interests of the government of China. Influence and control of Canadian politics was now waiting in the wings.
Reviewing the history of CCBC exposes a tangible partnership between the Trudeau family and Power Corporation, owned by the billionaire Demarais family of Quebec. The board of directors of China-China Business Council offers up multiple executives drawn from Bank of Montreal[BMO] as well as Power Corporation. Quebec-centric corporations such as Bombardier and SNC Lavalin would benefit greatly from these associations.
Thus, the economic partnership between the Liberal “Laurentian Mountain Elite” and communist China was born. Then came Justin Trudeau.
“Canada and China have decided to begin exploratory discussions of a possible free trade agreement (FTA). These discussions will enable Canada to determine what issues or areas could be included in a potential agreement, and whether there is sufficient interest or economic benefits to pursue an FTA.“
Thus stated Liberal Cabinet member Francois Philippe-Champagne, card-carrying Laurentian Mountain elite, and holder of mortgages from the Bank Of China.
The Canada-China Free Trade Agreement did not come to fruition. A darn good thing, because the details were so biased toward a benefit to China one might believe the Liberals were selling Canada to the communist behemoth nation in totality.
Of course, the Liberals were far from finished in their pursuits. China continued to ramp up power and influence within Canadian society. Despite warnings from CSIS regarding infiltration of Chinese spies and hacking private government data, PM Justin Trudeau approved the following:
Hear ye, hear ye: “Justin Trudeau facilitates China’s infiltration of Canada in the spirit of so-called father Pierre Trudeau.”
Of course, no one heard this message, because media has never pointed to a blatant, obvious connection between Pierre & Justin Trudeau in term of Canada-China relations, or anything else.
Why not? It wasn’t until 2023, when exposure of China’s federal election interference occurred, that mainstream media were finally forced to open the gates to the flooding of Canada by the government of China.
OTTAWA – March 1st, 2023: The Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation says it is returning $200,000 it received seven years agoafter a media report alleged a potential connection to Beijing.
“The Globe and Mail, citing an unnamed national security source, published a report on an alleged plot by the Chinese government to influence Justin Trudeau after he became Liberal leader.”
“The report alleged a Chinese billionaire was instructed by Beijing to donate $1 million to the Trudeau Foundation in 2014, the year before the Liberals came to power under Trudeau.”
Upon which we expand the parameters of political collusion:
According to an article from the National Post, foreign donations to the Pierre Trudeau Foundation began to skyrocket after Justin Trudeau was elected prime minister in 2015.
“Between 2014-2016, donations from non-Canadian sources increased from $53 million to $535 million– an increase of one thousand percent.”
The cat comes out of the bag. PM Trudeau and the Liberals are cast into hot water, and may not survive a scandal existing as a culmination of a 50-year covert relationship between China and the Liberal Party.
Or will they? Can this situation exist as a litmus test for a concept CAP has been advancing since our formation in 2016? Our theory goes like this:
Not only are Justin Trudeau and the Liberals in bed with the government of China. They are also emulating their style of governance. Contemporary Canada exists as a model of neo-communism as perpetrated by Justin Trudeau.
If he survives the scandal, would it not lend credence to the idea that Mr. Trudeau is, in fact, Canada first neo-dictator?
The Conservatives are crying foul over the appointment of former Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation president and CEO Morris Rosenberg to head up a panel examining foreign interference in Canadian elections.
Rosenberg was CEO in 2016 when the Trudeau Foundation received $200,000 in donations from Zhang Bin, a wealthy Chinese businessman tied to the Chinese communist regime, who was also in attendance at a Liberal Party cash-for-access fundraiser event in 2016 with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
The Conservatives issued a statement on the matter late on Feb. 27, just before a Globe and Mail report the following day citing an unnamed national security source saying that in 2014, a Chinese diplomat had instructed Zhang to donate $1 million to the Trudeau Foundation, and that Beijing would reimburse him for the amount.
The source told the Globe that the conversation was captured by the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) in 2014, soon after Trudeau became Liberal leader in 2013. According to the Globe, the source said the diplomat and Zhang discussed the upcoming 2015 federal election, and the possibility that the Liberals could defeat the Conservatives to form government.
Shortly after the 2016 fundraiser, Zhang and another Chinese businessman donated $1 million to “honour the memory and leadership” of former prime minister Pierre Trudeau, the Globe says. Of that amount, $200,000 went to the Trudeau Foundation, $50,000 toward the building of a statue of Pierre Trudeau, and $75,000 to the University of Montreal’s faculty of law, where the former prime minister had attended as a student and was later an instructor.
Panel
The Conservatives allege Trudeau handpicked Rosenberg, who is described by the Trudeau Foundation as “a previously appointed Trudeau mentor,” to write a report on foreign interference in the 2021 election.
The development comes following recent reporting based on leaked intelligence documents that China interfered in elections with the goal of electing a Liberal minority government, while obstructing some Conservative candidates.
“For months, Justin Trudeau has repeatedly attempted to deny, minimize and cover up reports of serious interference in Canadian elections,” says the Feb. 27 Conservative Party statement. “Serious questions must be asked about this appointment, and whether the Liberals are actually taking this threat against our democracy seriously.”
When tweeting the release, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre commented: “Trudeau says we shouldn’t worry about Beijing’s interference in our [elections] because he is having a report drafted on foreign interference. Who drafted it? The former head of the Trudeau Foundation—which got $200k in donations from … an official from Beijing’s communist government.”
Neither Rosenberg nor the Prime Minister’s Office replied to Epoch Times requests for comment.
Rosenberg, a former deputy minister of foreign affairs, served as president and CEO of the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation from August 2014 to July 2018.
Liberal MP Mark Gerretsen, parliamentary secretary for the leader of the government in the House of Commons, said on Twitter that Poilievre is “playing a very dangerous game here.”
“To take partisan cheap shots at a dedicated public servant is truly irresponsible,” Gerretsen said on Feb. 27. “Morris Rosenberg has faithfully served Canadian (sic) for many years, including under Conservative governments.”
Rosenberg’s report on incidents of foreign interference in the 2021 election is now complete but is not yet available to the public, while the 2019 evaluation was completed about 13 months after the election that year. The panel didn’t make any announcement about foreign interference during the 2019 or 2021 elections.
CCP Ties
Zhang Bin was a member of the 12th National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, a political advisory body within the Chinese communist regime. He was also president of the China Cultural Industry Association (CCIA).
According to the CCIA’s English website, the organization is “empowered to develop China’s cultural industry, to boost the soft power of Chinese culture and advance the campaign of going global of [sic] Chinese culture, while striving to become a social organization with global standing in the cultural field.”
The Epoch Times contacted Zhang for comment but didn’t hear back.
China’s Election Interference
Recent reports by the Globe and Mail and Global News cited secret CSIS documents and intelligence sources detailing widespread election interference by China in Canada’s 2019 and 2021 federal elections.
Among the allegations are that Beijing provided funding to some candidates in the 2019 election; a Chinese diplomat boasting that she helped defeat two Conservative candidates whose positions weren’t favourable to Beijing in the 2021 election; and Chinese authorities wanting the outcome of the 2021 election to be a Liberal minority. A Liberal minority government would best serve Beijing’s interests, while keeping the Liberals’ power in check by opposition parties, a source told the Globe.
The Commons Procedure and House Affairs Committee is currently looking into the allegations in the news reports.
The Conservatives said they will be calling for a separate investigation, and for Rosenberg to appear before the committee to provide “answers on this attempt by the Liberals to paper over serious threats to our democracy.”
“Since the 1970s, there have been important political and economic pro-China vectors emanating out of Montreal and Ottawa.” byBrad Salzberg
“What in the world, you might be asking, is up with Canada? How did a country famed for its sensible, moderate attitudes and customs transform itself into the front rank of the woke phalanx?”
Who better than Dr. Jordan Peterson to pose this question to the people of Canada?It is of little surprise that such frank critique of PM Justin Trudeau should appear only within a non-Canadian media publication. By now, most Canadians would have recognized that citizens of our country are being subjected to a “woke media vacuum” within our dying democracy.“Canada, according to Trudeau, is a vacancy, bereft of civil history; a nothing place, waiting to be filled in. But nature abhors a vacuum, and that emptiness cries out to be filled. And who shall guide the infilling? Well obviously, Trudeau himself, along with his mentors and minions,” says Dr. Peterson. Absolutely correct. Early in his tenure, a specious Justin Trudeau blessed Canada with a piece of neo-communist ideology. His claim that our country is a nation with “no core identity” has opened the door for the next phase of our national state-of-being.Media won’t allude to it, but the words which Peterson speaks has set the stage for a post-modern brand of authoritarian governance in Canada.
Like presumed father Pierre Trudeau, PM Justin’s political cognition is firmly rooted in communist ideology.On this basis, no living Canadian should be surprised that Mr. Trudeau has put the kibosh on a formal inquiry into a CSIS report confirming interference from the government of China in the past two federal elections.‘Trudeau Rules Out Public Inquiry Into Chinese Electoral Interference,’ reads a headline this week in the Globe and Mail. No one should be surprised by the pronouncement.Legacy media has been doing all they can to provide damage control. PM Trudeau “knew about the interference, and warned Parliament accordingly.““The interference is damaging to Canadian democracy and related institutions,” reads the scroll of damage control.All the while eschewing a central fact within Canada’s political narrative: there is no human being on earth more responsible for a deterioration of freedom, democracy and the rule of law in Canada than Justin Trudeau.
Upon which Cultural Action Party repeat our well-worn mantra: The Liberal Party of Canada and the communist government of China have maintained a tacit form of partnership for the past 50-years. Beginning with former Liberal PM Pierre Trudeau in the early 1970’s, China’s path to power within our society is the most overlooked political story of our times.“In U.S. backyard: How China Embedded Itself In Canada”“
Since the 1970s, there have been important political and economic pro-China vectors emanating out of Montreal and Ottawa. Since then, that have broadened to influential pro-Beijing groups across Canada.”Extent to which this information has been disseminated within Canadian media? Blink, and you missed it– because it has never occurred.“Pierre Trudeau made no secret of his sympathies for communist leaders like Fidel Castro, and by the time he was elected Prime Minister, he had already visited China twice. He was there in 1949, the year the Communists took power, and then again on an official visit in 1960, when he was a labour lawyer. On the 1960s visit, he met Chairman Mao. After which CAP delve into an area intentionally hidden from mainstream society.
Quebec-centric power-players– of which the Trudeau family belong– have been responsible for the Liberal Party link to the communist government of China.In 1978 came the establishment of the Canada China Business Council. Founding members of CCBC included three major Montreal-based companies, Power Corporation,Bombardier, and SNC Lavalin.“For three generations, Power Corp. has been largely run by the Desmarais family. Paul Desmarais was the first generation. He had been an advisor to Pierre Trudeau, and later Trudeau was on the board of Power Corp. Paul’s son married the daughter of former Prime Minister Jean Chrétien. Their son, Paul’s grandson, is the current Chair of the Canada China Business Council.”There you have it. The roots of Justin Trudeau’s refusal to drill-down on China’s election interference.
Degree of exposure from Canadian media totals zero– a proverbial goose egg,Conveniently omitted from the Liberal-China narrative is another salient fact. The Conservative Party of Canada won the popular vote in the last federal election. Meaning that it is possible that the 11 MP seats bribed by China’s government could have won the election for the Conservatives.
Did China win the 2021 election for Justin Trudeau? It’s darn well possible–the very reason why the Liberals are leveraging the billions paid to establishment media to obfuscative the election interference.The government of China know their business. With or without the right to vote, Chinese government leader know all about maintaining long-term governance. Decade after decade, the same power structure exists to control for the purpose of controlling public behaviour, and muting all forms of push-back against government leaders.
CBC won’t tell you, and Toronto Star won’t print it, but the very same structure is currently in place in Canada. The goal is singular: the Liberals are to be Canada’s government-for-life. Utilizing China’s methodology of media control, the Liberal Party has transitioned to Canada’s first neo-communist government. To be followed, in due time, by the real thing.
Let’s explore the motivation and goal of the media’s obsession with promoting diversity while demonizing white people. #EnemyOfThePeople #ItsOKtobeWhite 1/ White people have been earmarked for replacement.
2/ Of course, we’re not allowed to say that.
3/ But we don’t have to because they won’t stop bragging about it.
4/ Seriously, they can’t stop bragging about it.
5/ Remember: if you’re complaining about it you’re a racist, white supremacist, conspiracy theorist. If you’re bragging about it, you’re the media.
6/ 7/ So, you can’t deny it’s happening. But is it purposeful?
8/ 9/ 10/ It’s both happening and it’s purposeful, so why deny it?
11/ I mean, it *is* beneficial for us, right?
12/ Sure, diversity does have some downsides.
13/ 14/ But no matter what, diversity is our strength (or so they keep saying).
15/ But are our countries in need of cultural enrichment?
16/ Do they look bland, boring, or lacking somehow?
17/ 18/ And if so, what qualifies the creators of these places to enrich and strengthen us?
19/ And why does their cultural enrichment always look like this?
20/ 21/ But that’s not the desired end-result.
This is:
22/ The ancient Greeks invented Democracy, and they also warned us of its weakness. A multi-ethnic (diverse) society cannot function democratically; therefore justifying the need for a dictatorship.
23/ And what’s the biggest obstacle in (((their))) way? White solidarity. Unroll available on Thread Readerhttps://platform.twitter.com/embed/Tweet.html?creatorScreenName=RRHnsRR&dnt=true&embedId=twitter-widget- 24/ So they chip away at our strength.
Re the Quilette article “A Demagogue Departs,” the author overlooks one reason for the success of Scottish nationalism and the Scottish Nationalist Party, to-wit: the fact is that Scottish nationalism (unlike, say, Spanish, French, German, Italian or Russian nationalism) is supported by the worst elements of the international globalist establishment. The SNP is rumoured (probably correctly) to have enjoyed the covert support of the Soviet Union before the fall of Communism, as was the case with the IRA. The SNP was not and is not a movement of romantic Jacobites just as the marxist IRA is not a “Catholic” movement but a marxist movement replete with its own “Republican funeral” services from which God is banned. The SNP was run by Marxists as I witnessed several decades ago when several of its representatives paid a visit to Atlanta, Georgia, to chat up locals who think they are Scottish. The “Bonnie Prince Charlie” fans met up instead with a set of gritty anti-monarchical Marxists, an encounter that ought to start even the most atrophied brain thinking. The SNP is a way to undermine not only Britain at home but Anglo-Saxons (and the majority of Scots are Lowlanders who have been speaking English since the seventh or eighth centuries) everywhere. For this reason it is adored and glowingly reported on in the pages of The NY Times.
By carrying on about now utterly irrelevant “issues” arising from things like the Battle of Culloden, the SNP has served the interests of non-European aliens by picking at the scabs of family feuds that have not the slightest relevance to the present problems facing European people in Scotland and throughout the globe. Naturally, the enemies of our religion, race, culture and civilization would want to encourage “Scottish” Nationalism especially in the form of a party that wants to welcome Muslims, Sikhs, Hindus and Nigerians to Scotland but wallows in hatred of the English whom the party wants expelled. Some “nationalism” that is! Like most Americans whose family has been here for several centuries,
I am something of a “mutt” in terms of European heritage…Scottish, English, German and French in that order. But Scottish is my largest component by far and I grew up in the Church of Scotland. As a bastardized child of the Diaspora I cannot speak for real present day Scots but I can speak for myself when I say that I am not keen on Scottish nationalism. Period. I do not want to consign Milton and Shakespeare to alien status while colonizing Scotland (and America and Europe) with Third World settlers. And I certainly wish people in the Auld Country would scorn this preposterous thing calling itself “the Scottish Nationalist Party” which is determined to replace the people of Scotland with non-European aliens.
Seen in downtown Hamilton today. Living “without equality?” You mean they’re illegals. They have no right to “equality” with Canadian citizens. If our Globalist rulers weren’t so eager to replace Europeans, the illegals wouldn’t even be here — mooching off Canadian taxpayers who get no say in the matter
Ukrainian Refugee Girl Finds San Francisco Schools So Violent She Wants to Go Back JOEL B. POLLAK19 Feb 2023
A Ukrainian refugee girl who settled in San Francisco with her mother is finding public school in the city so violent that she longs to return to her war-torn country, where she feels children are less cruel to one another.
It didn’t take Yana long to realize that real life in her eighth grade classes at Marina Middle School was nothing like the scenes that played out on her [television] screen.
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Students interrupted classes, jumped on desks, cursed at teachers. At first, Yana wondered what was going on, but then, “nothing happened.” Students were not disciplined or prevented from repeat behavior.
CSIS documents show China warned ‘Canadian friends’ of foreign-interference investigations
The Globe and Mail (Ontario Edition)
18 Feb 2023
ROBERT FIFE STEVEN CHASE With a report from Carrie Tait in Calgary.
CSIS reports show that Chinese influence included disinformation campaigns, undeclared cash donations and utilizing international students for voting.
Trudeau says he expects an investigation into the source of leaks to Globe, denies Beijing’s interference in elections
Chinese diplomats quietly issued warnings to “friendly” influential Canadians in early 2022, advising them to reduce their contact with federal politicians to avoid being caught up in foreign-interference investigations by Canada’s spy agency.
Secret and top-secret Canadian Security Intelligence Service documents viewed by The Globe and Mail reveal how China sought to protect its network of “Canadian friends” – a community it relies on to build relations, influence and covertly gather information from MPs and senators.
The Globe reported Friday how China employed a sophisticated strategy to seek the return of a minority Liberal government and to defeat Conservative politicians considered to be unfriendly to Beijing in the 2021 federal election.
The tactics, outlined in secret CSIS reports, included disinformation campaigns, undeclared cash donations and the use of international Chinese students, studying in Canada, as campaign volunteers to support preferred Liberal candidates.
The classified documents show that Chinese influence operations went beyond election interference, employing tactics to target Canadian legislators and sway public opinion through proxies in the business and academic communities.
In response to The Globe story, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau told reporters at a Friday news conference that he expects CSIS to find out who is leaking the secret reports, and stuck to his long-held view that Chinese interference operations did not affect the overall results of the 2019 and 2021 elections.
“It’s certainly a sign that security within CSIS needs to be reviewed. And I’m expecting CSIS to take the issue very seriously,” Mr. Trudeau said.
MPs on the Commons Procedure and House Affairs committee are already looking into allegations that China interfered in the 2019 campaign. Opposition parties want the committee to return from a scheduled two-week break on Wednesday to hold hearings on The Globe’s report concerning the 2021 election.
As for foreign interference in federal elections, the Prime Minister played down reports of Chinese state meddling. The CSIS report talked of how China’s former consul-general in Vancouver, Tong Xiaoling, boasted in 2021 about how she helped defeat two Conservative MPs.
“The fact that a Chinese diplomat would try to take credit for things that happened is not something that is unseen in diplomatic circles around the world,” Mr. Trudeau said.
He said a task force of civil servants in Ottawa is keeping Canada’s election results safe from foreign interference. “Canadians can have total confidence that the outcomes of the 2019 and the 2021 elections were determined by Canadians and Canadians alone at the voting booth.”
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre accused Mr. Trudeau of “covering up the interference of the authoritarian regime” in China. “He is perfectly happy to let a foreign authoritarian government interfere in our elections as long as they’re helping him,” he said in Calgary.
The highly classified information about China’s strategy of recruiting business executives, university professors and researchers were shared with senior Canadian government officials and Canada’s Fives Eyes intelligence allies: the United States, Britain, Australia and New Zealand. The CSIS reports were also shared with German, French, Dutch and Swedish spy services.
In a Jan. 15, 2022, intelligence report, CSIS said China had learned that the spy agency for the first time was warning individual MPs and senators from all major parties about influence operations being carried out by Beijing. That set in motion an effort by Chinese diplomats to close down foreign-interference operations directed at elected officials in Ottawa.
“[People’s Republic of China] officials believe that CSIS is conducting investigations into Chinese foreign interference in Canada, resulting in officials considering that it is more prudent for “Canadian friends” to cease contacts with MPs for the time being,” the report said. “PRC officials will simply need to provide an ambiguous warning to the ‘Canadian friends’ in order for the latter to grasp the situation.”
The documents do not identify the Canadian business executives, academics or researchers.
CSIS has become increasingly alarmed about efforts by China and its agents of influence to covertly cultivate relations with elected officials to gain sway over parliamentary debates and government decision-making. The spy service had asked MPs to alert them of any suspicious activity, and provided the politicians with names and contact information of CSIS agents whom they can contact to pass on information.
Canadian friends were described by CSIS as non-ethnic-Chinese individuals who maintain relations with PRC officials in Canada and have close ties with federal politicians in the Liberal, Conservative and New Democratic parties. CSIS said the warning from China was not sent to Chinese-Canadians who were close to MPs as “PRC officials are very well acquainted with those individuals,” the report said.
Of particular concern to Beijing was CSIS’s new focus of trying to put pressure on Canadian universities and researchers from collaborating with China on leading-edge science and technology projects. The report said one Chinese diplomat in Canada said CSIS was “unnecessarily investigating PRC-focused academics” and said PRC officials should warn these academics about the investigations.
In 2021, Ottawa put in place stricter guidelines to require national-security reviews for academics seeking federal funding from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC). But that did not apply to other federal funding bodies.
Innovation Minister François-Philippe Champagne extended the ban to all federal granting agencies after The Globe revealed late last month that 50 Canadian universities had been collaborating with China’s National University of Defence Technology since 2005. Mr. Champagne announced on Tuesday that Ottawa would no longer fund research with Chinese military or state security institutions. He also urged Canadian universities to adopt the same stringent national-security measures.
China’s consulate-general in Vancouver accused The Globe of smearing and discrediting China. “The Chinese side has made it clear on many occasions that China has always adhered to the principle of non-interference in the internal affairs of other countries, and has never interfered in any Canadian election or internal affairs in any way,” said a statement on its website.
Walied Soliman, who served as the co-chair of the 2021 Conservative election campaign, said on Twitter Friday that the federal government’s Security and Intelligence Threats To Elections (SITE) task force did not take his party’s concerns about foreign interference seriously.
“Our party was seeing clear signs of tampering in ridings with substantial Chinese diasporas,” he said. “We were met with shrugged shoulders and complete ambivalence. It was truly unreal,” he said.
Andy Ellis, former CSIS assistant director of operations, said Ottawa should have expelled the Chinese diplomats behind the election interference operations even if it meant a tit-for-tat response from Beijing.
“There certainly should have been very, very serious consideration given to declaring them persona non grata,” Mr. Ellis said. “Making a hard judgment to say what is worse losing a diplomat in Beijing in retaliation for this or getting rid of someone who is disrupting Canadian elections.”
Mr. Poilievre called on the federal government to set up a foreign-agent registry that would keep track of all people paid to influence Canadian governments on behalf of foreign countries.
Mr. Trudeau declined to answer a question on whether Ottawa would proceed to set up a registry such as exist in Australia and the United States.
David Mulroney, a former Canadian ambassador to China with a diplomatic career stretching back more than 30 years, said The Globe’s reporting on China’s efforts to influence the 2021 election underscores the need to shine a light on those working for foreign states.
“These revelations make clear the extent to which China uses proxies to deliver its influence campaigns,” he said. The Canadian government “needs to move from musing about a registry of foreign agents to actually establishing one. And the sooner the better.”
He said a registry would make a difference.
“Simply announcing that we are going to require individuals to be transparent about disbursing funds for, lobbying for, or speaking for a foreign state would put China on notice,” he said.
“Much of Beijing’s interference effort in Canada is delivered through individuals who are paid to do those things by Chinese officials. Canadians need to know who’s pulling the strings and cutting the cheques.”
“Any form of assistance to migrants crossing the border where it is strictly forbidden to do so should stop immediately,” a spokesperson for Quebec Premier Francois Legault said.
“We understand that the situation of migrants in New York poses major challenges, but the situation in Quebec and particularly in Montreal is even worse and constitutes an important humanitarian issue.”
Earlier this month, The Post exclusively reported that Adams was using taxpayer funds to get bus tickets for migrants in the Big Apple to travel upstate to Plattsburgh.
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From there, migrants take taxis and vans to a cul-de-sac at the end of Roxham Road in Champlain, where they walk across the border and surrender to Canadian Mounties to seek asylum, as The Post documented on Feb. 5.
As many as 250 migrants use the Roxham Road crossing to illegally enter Canada each day, with nearly all of them settling in Montreal, Quebec’s biggest city, Legault spokesperson Ewan Sauves said.
The situation has overwhelmed Montreal’s ability to provide housing and other public services, with the flood of new students alone equivalent to the opening of 13 new schools, he said.
Last year, 39,161 people used Roxham Road to illegally enter Canada, comprising 99.1% of all such border crossings, Sauves said.
By comparison, the latest figures released by City Hall on Monday showed that officials have processed more than 45,600 migrants since the spring, with about 29,100 housed in 91 emergency shelters as of Sunday.
Mayor Eric Adams has defended funding nonprofits to “reticket” migrants who want to leave the city and go to Canada.Paul Martinka
Those figures likely represent an undercount, however, because they don’t include migrants who stay with relatives, friends and other people in their networks after arriving in New York, according to City Hall.
But while the Big Apple’s population is nearly 8.5 million, Montreal’s is just 1.7 million.
Adams’ office didn’t immediately return a request for comment, but the mayor last week defended funding various nonprofits, including Catholic Charities, to “reticket” migrants who want to leave the city and go to Canada.
Quebec Premier Francois Legault said all aiding of migrants crossing the border “should stop immediately.”Getty Images
“We are not encouraging anyone to go to another country,” Adams said during a Wednesday appearance on CNN. “If we speak with a migrant, interview them, [we] find out their desires and make sure that we are assisting them like we’ve done.”
The surge in border crossings at Roxham Road has sparked controversy in Quebec, with the separatist Parti Québécois recently calling for police intervention and the creation of an “enclave” to block the Roxham Road path between the US and Canada.
Another separatist political party, Bloc Québécois, tweeted Friday that Quebec was not an “all-inclusive,” sparking outrage from the democratic socialist party Québec solidaire, the Canadian Press reported Sunday.
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“An all-inclusive is a place where we go to crash on the beach drinking margaritas,” Québec solidaire spokesperson Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois said while attending the party’s national council in Montreal.
“The people who enter Quebec to apply for asylum are people who are fleeing violence, exploitation, persecution. They are not people who want to take it easy.”
Nadeau-Dubois added: “These comparisons have no place.” (New York Post, February 13, 2023)
