{"id":2468,"date":"2022-08-27T19:23:01","date_gmt":"2022-08-27T19:23:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/canadafirst.nfshost.com\/?p=2468"},"modified":"2022-08-27T19:23:33","modified_gmt":"2022-08-27T19:23:33","slug":"how-chinese-gangs-invaded-canada-and-how-canadas-corrupt-politicians-helped-them-by-dan-murray-immigration-watch-canada-watch-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadafirst.nfshost.com\/?p=2468","title":{"rendered":"How Chinese Gangs Invaded Canada and How Canada\u2019s Corrupt Politicians Helped Them by Dan Murray, Immigration Watch Canada \u2013Watch Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

How Chinese Gangs Invaded Canada and How Canada\u2019s Corrupt Politicians Helped Them by Dan Murray, Immigration Watch Canada \u2013<\/strong> January 8, 2020 https:\/\/immigrationwatchcanada.org\/2020\/01\/08\/how-chinese-gangs-invaded-canada-how-canadas-corrupt-politicians-helped-them\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Canadian diplomat Brian McAdam was posted at Canada\u2019s Hong Kong consulate between 1989-1993. He became Canada\u2019s immigration control officer in Hong Kong. He soon uncovered evidence of what he believed was a major scandal. Both Canadian and Chinese consular staff were selling visas to members of Hong Kong\u2019s and Mainland China\u2019s mafia as well as to Communist China\u2019s intelligence service. The price, he heard, ranged from $10,000 to $100,000 per visa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to Postmedia reporter Don Butler, \u201cMcAdam had evidence that members of Chinese criminal gangs, known as Triads, were applying to enter Canada as entrepreneurs under the country\u2019s business immigration program. And many were getting visas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhat was very, very disturbing to McAdam was that he kept seeing connections of these Triad members to Canadian politicians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He started writing reports \u2014 ultimately 32 \u2014 documenting the names of the gangsters who were getting into Canada. His reports provided details on murderers, money launderers, smugglers and spies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The reports caused panic in the immigration minister\u2019s office and at headquarters in Ottawa. McAdam alleged, \u201cI was exposing incredible negligence. I was exposing incredible corruption. And I was exposing the flaws in our whole immigration system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cPeople in Ottawa didn\u2019t want to investigate anything. They just shut their eyes to everything.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to an Ottawa Citizen report, McAdam received dozens of threatening calls (from the Chinese Mafia) with messages such as \u201cStop what you\u2019re doing or you\u2019re going to find yourself dead\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What finally broke him down, he said, was \u201cthe incredible feeling of betrayal from my colleagues\u201d. One day, a Hong Kong police officer told McAdam that a Triad member whose phone was tapped, told the Hong Kong police officer that the Triad member had complained to someone in Canada\u2019s immigration department. The Immigration Department official reassured the Triad boss, \u201cDon\u2019t worry about McAdam and what he\u2019s doing. We\u2019ll take care of him.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And, says Mr. McAdam, they did \u201ctake care of him\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Macadam was shocked at what the Hong Kong officer said to him. I\u2019d worked with these people for years.\u201d \u201cIt goes to your very soul,\u201d he says. \u201cIt is a spiritual crisis. It is a psychological breakdown.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Immigration Canada offered him a good new job in Ottawa, supposedly in a new organized crime unit at Foreign Affairs. But when he showed up for work in 1993, he discovered the job didn\u2019t exist. The personnel manager urged him to take a retirement package, though he was just 51.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Days later, he went on sick leave and never returned to work. His 30-year career in Europe, the Caribbean and Asia was over.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

McAdam started preparing details about his experiences. In an 850-page manuscript titled \u201cThe Dragon\u2019s (China\u2019s) Deception\u201d He writes: \u201cI was mocked, demeaned and threatened in a hostile environment while dealing with some of the world\u2019s most ruthless criminals. Staff in both Hong Kong and in Ottawa gave copies of my confidential reports about some of the criminals to the gangsters themselves, and that greatly put my life at risk. I received death threats for a number of years but no one was ever concerned about my safety. My big question (was): Why did Canadian diplomats in Hong Kong and bureaucrats in Ottawa do whatever they could to destroy my work and myself?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Around that time, he was formulating the idea of a formal investigation to verify and enlarge his findings in Hong Kong. By 1995, a dozen CSIS (Canadian Security Intelligence Service) and RCMP officers formally launched their first joint project. Its name was \u201cOperation Sidewinder\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In spite of dealing with his ill health, Mr. McAdam supplied the team with extensive documentation of China\u2019s criminals and the Communist government\u2019s ambitious program of acquisition, espionage and political influence in Canada and around the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The RCMP\u2019s own more narrow investigation into Mr. McAdam\u2019s discoveries \u2014 separate from \u201cSidewinder\u201d \u2014 had begun in 1992. They probed incidents of corruption but limited themselves to locally engaged staff \u2014 not Canadians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A seven-year investigation ensued. Seven RCMP investigators came and went. \u201cAs soon as one (Mountie) would (find something damning), they\u2019d pull him off the case,\u201d Mr. McAdam says. (That pattern continued.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI believe both probes (by the Sidewinder team and by the RCMP) had considerable political interference to shut them down,\u201d says Mr. McAdam, \u201cand it seemed to be coming from the highest levels.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

David Kilgour, then Liberal MP for Edmonton-Strathcona and secretary of state for Latin America and Africa, wrote persistent letters sympathetic to McAdam\u2019s concerns. Mr. Kilgour sent his first letter directly to then-prime minister Jean Chr\u00e9tien asking for a public inquiry \u2014 which Mr. McAdam had requested. Instead, the government ordered an RCMP probe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Among the RCMP officers sent to Hong Kong was a 26-year veteran, Cpl. Robert Read, who, in 1996, spent months reviewing and corroborating many of Mr. McAdam\u2019s findings. RCMP Supt. Jean Dub\u00e9 pulled Read off the file in 1997 and later fired Read.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThey fired him to stop the investigation,\u201d says Mr. McAdam.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2003, an RCMP external committee confirmed Cpl. Read\u2019s findings. It found the RCMP \u201cconsistently demonstrated a reluctance to investigate\u201d and ordered the force to rehire him. The RCMP refused. Cpl. Read sued.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Prime Minister Chretien ordered that all copies of the Sidewinder report be destroyed, supposedly to avoid alienating China and endangering trade and other relations with China. More likely, Chretien was concerned about the money the Liberal Party\u2019s major donors (developers, speculators, banks, media corps) made from the influx of Chinese into Canada. Chretien feared that these people would not stand to have their cash cow interfered with.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One copy of the Sidewinder report survived.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to Postmedia reporter Don Butler, documents released in 2001 (under access to information rules) state that the RCMP believed the spy agency shelved the report because it was uneasy with its message that Beijing\u2019s spies were working with Chinese criminal gangs in Canada.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to an updated Globe and Mail report of April 6, 2018, which focused on the testimony of Canadian agent Michel Juneau, the original Sidewinder team culled some of its information from a Mainland Chinese intelligence officer who defected in 1997.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The man, who was a member of the United Front Work Department, one of China\u2019s five espionage arms, went public with allegations that he had been ordered to go to Hong Kong to engineer a pact between Beijing and criminal gangs known as triads.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mr. Juneau also pointed out that at the RCMP\u2019s request, the original Sidewinder team produced a binder, brimming with what is known in the intelligence business as facting. It provided documented evidence, culled from secret CSIS reports, other government departments and agencies and foreign intelligence agencies, that supported every single line in the original report, he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mr. Juneau noted that other Western intelligence organizations and a bipartisan U.S. congressional committee have since produced reports that echoed many of Sidewinder\u2019s conclusions. \u201cWe were ahead of our time and that\u2019s what probably killed our report.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to UBC Professor David Ley, between 200,000 and 300,000 Chinese entered Canada through the Business Immigrant program. Many of them and their families still live in Canada. It is extremely probable that many continue their criminal activities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For details, see https:\/\/ottawacitizen.com\/news\/local-news\/the-mcadam-file-bribery-chinese-gangsters-and-betrayal<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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