From the Most "Transparent" Government In the Country's History

Assume that every MP is in the employ of an enemy nation until proven conclusively not so:

Public Safety Minister Dominic LeBlanc yesterday said he knows the names of Parliament Hill spies and which foreign governments they work for, but cited national security in refusing to disclose the information. One MP noted the Security Of Information Act permits the unmasking of foreign agents “in the public interest.”

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Opposition MPs and observers said the government’s behaviour was “shocking,” “abusive” and “unacceptable.” They were reacting to accusations that the federal government withheld a significant amount of information from the National Security and Intelligence Committee of Parliamentarians (NSICOP) as it studied foreign interference in Canada.

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“The shocking revelation that the government withheld over 1,000 documents from the NSICOP committee makes clear their claims of transparency ring hollow and they will use every available tool to cover up the truth,” Conservative MP Michael Chong said in a statement.

“That is unacceptable,” NDP MP Alistair MacGregor said in an interview. “On an issue which is really, really top of mind for a lot of Canadians and is incredibly important to resolve… we need to have NSICOP have full access to anything related to foreign interference.”

 

There should be no games.

This is all straight-up treason.

It's time for some arrests.

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This isn't a joke, you sad, little tart.

Are you colluding with an enemy nation? Yes or no?:

If you needed a single sentence to show this government is on its last legs, there it is. pic.twitter.com/q7uzyuX3km

— Frank Caputo MP (@FrankCaputoKTC) June 6, 2024

 

The Liberals know exactly what is going on and are deliberately doing this. 

Having Justin's auntie will only complicate matters more.

Also:

MPs named by top-secret intelligence as aiding foreign interference in Canadian politics continue to go unidentified by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government, despite opposition demands to say publicly who they are.

But at least one constitutional expert says it’s possible — and entirely in line with long-established rules — for certain MPs to simply disclose the names from the floor of the House of Commons. 

The report comes from the National Security and Intelligence Committee of Parliamentarians, known as NSICOP, which is made up of MPs and senators from all parties. 

The committee’s responsibilities are enshrined in law. Among the requirements: that members swear an oath they “will not communicate or use without due authority any information obtained in confidence by me in that capacity.” Further, the members are all permanently bound to secrecy under the Security of Information Act. 

So, if any member of the committee were to disclose publicly what they know, they could face years in prison.

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Canada’s spy chief says that political leaders could take steps to make sure parliamentarians accused of cooperating with foreign governments face consequences, even if they don’t face criminal prosecution.

David Vigneault, the director of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS), suggested to a parliamentary committee Thursday that party leaders could disallow any of their MPs suspected of collusion from running for the party again, or expel them from caucus over the allegations they cooperated with foreign states like China and India.

“If you’re not able to find accountability and create an element of deterrence through a judicial process then there are other mechanisms that have been referred to including for the leaders to have the information and make decisions,” Vigneault told the House of Commons’ public safety committee.

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CSIS Director David Vigneault says he had “taken for granted” that the House of Commons would tell some MPs they were the target of a Chinese-backed hacker group in 2021.

Speaking to MPs on the Commons procedure committee Tuesday, the head of Canada’s spy agency said the organization needs to be better at warning parliamentarians when they are targeted by foreign states or hostile organizations.

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During his testimony, Vigneault was contrite about MPs of all stripes who were members of the Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China (IPAC) not being warned they were targeted by a China-backed cybercriminal group in 2021, but stopped short of apologizing.

Though they were targeted three years ago, 18 MPs of all political stripes that are part of IPAC were only told of the attempted intrusions by Advanced Persistent Threat 31 (APT31) group — Chinese state-sponsored cyber hackers — after the FBI unsealed an indictment in late March 2024.

“It became apparent subsequently that the politicians targeted had, for the most part, not been informed by their respective governments,” IPAC wrote on its website.

Vigneault said CSIS and its intelligence partners, including the Communications Security Establishment (CSE), caught wind of the attempted intrusions in 2021 and warned House of Commons security. He said he incorrectly assumed the message would be transferred to MPs.

“What we took for granted was that when we worked with the House of Commons, House of Commons leadership would talk to the MPs. That approach did not work for different reasons,” he said.