Isn't it time that they fixed someone else's elections?:
“Around half the Chinese-Canada [sic] constituents she canvassed would tell Ms. Alleslev they were afraid to vote for her because they feared repercussions against themselves or their family members both in Canada and China,” the affidavit said, as first reported by Blacklock’s Reporter.
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Elections Canada says it cannot refute an affidavit by former two-term MP Leona Alleslev (Aurora-Oak Ridges, Ont.) stating it unwittingly hired Chinese Communist Party agents as poll workers in the 2021 campaign. Alleslev in a sworn statement said she received complaints from Chinese Canadian electors who said they were too frightened to vote: “Half the Chinese Canadian constituents she canvassed would tell Ms. Alleslev they were afraid to vote for her because they feared repercussions.”
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Federal executives at a confidential meeting last August 29 concluded foreign agents were using illegal methods to threaten Canadians. The meeting occurred only weeks after cabinet’s Special Rapporteur downplayed foreign interference as “media allegations.”
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The suppression doesn’t stop at the Chinese border. In the United States and elsewhere, Chinese operatives have tried every means to extinguish Falun Gong, including bribing IRS agents to revoke a practitioner-run nonprofit’s status, disrupting Falun Gong demonstrations during high stakes Chinese official visits, spying on individuals’ activities, and in some cases, carrying out violent assaults.
A 2021 report by Freedom House states that “China conducts the most sophisticated, global, and comprehensive campaign of transnational repression in the world.”
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Let's go with a 100% tariff on everything:
Canada will impose new tariffs on Chinese-made electric vehicles, aluminum and steel, lining up behind western allies and taking steps to protect domestic manufacturers.
The government plans to announce a 100% levy on electric cars and 25% on steel and aluminum, according to people familiar with the matter, speaking on condition they not be identified because the matter is still private. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is expected to unveil the policy in Halifax, Nova Scotia, where he’s gathered with the rest of his cabinet for a series of meetings about the economy and foreign relations.
Canada, an export-driven economy that relies heavily on trade with the US, has been closely watching moves by the Biden administration to erect a much higher tariff wall against Chinese EVs, batteries, solar cells, steel and other products. Canada’s auto sector is heavily integrated with that of its closest neighbor: The vast majority of its light vehicle production — which was 1.5 million units last year — is exported to the US.
I doubt even this will happen.
Justin owes a great debt to his Chinese bosses.
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Another reason why the housing market is in trouble:
"Canada’s real estate sector is used by criminals to facilitate tax evasion and money laundering," stated FINTRAC. The agency highlighted that Canadian real estate is not only an attractive destination for laundered funds but also a channel through which proceeds of crime are being laundered.
The alert specifically cautioned realtors, mortgage issuers, and other industry stakeholders to be vigilant about the use of straw buyers who act as intermediaries in sales. It also flagged the suspicious use of private lenders for property purchases outside traditional financial institutions without logical explanations and the practice of "assignment contracts"—where property titles are flipped multiple times to different buyers or investors before construction is even completed.
"Instances observed include multiple incoming electronic funds transfers structured below currency restrictions imposed by other countries such as China and Iran and sent to individuals in Canada, which are then invested in real estate," the alert noted, without providing further details.
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Why Japan needs to grow its military and navy:
A Chinese military aircraft was confirmed for the first time to have violated Japanese territorial airspace on Monday morning, the Defense Ministry in Tokyo said, with Japan strongly protesting the move.
The Defense Ministry said one of the Chinese military's Y-9 intelligence-gathering planes had briefly entered Japanese territory near the Danjo Islands off Nagasaki Prefecture from around 11:29 a.m. to 11:31 a.m., prompting the Air Self-Defense Force to scramble fighter jets in response.
The ministry said the fighters had taken steps such as "issuing warnings," while NHK reported that no weapons or flares were fired.
According to a map of the flight path provided by the Defense Ministry, the Chinese plane continued to circle in an area near the Danjo Islands for some time after leaving Japanese airspace.
At around 5:20 p.m., Japan's vice minister for foreign affairs, Masataka Okano, summoned the charge d'affaires of the Chinese Embassy in Tokyo to the Foreign Ministry to deliver a solemn protest and "strongly request" that the Chinese side prevent any recurrence, the ministry said in a statement.
In response, the Chinese side said that it "would report the matter to their home country."
Underscoring the unprecedented nature of the move, China is believed to have previously sent government aircraft into Japanese territorial airspace on just two occasions, both of which, unlike Monday's incursion, involved contested territory.
Both instances — once in 2012, when a propeller plane was detected, and another time in 2017 with a small drone — occurred near the Japanese-controlled Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea. China also claims the islands, which it calls the Diaoyu.
Beijing routinely sends military aircraft into international airspace above the East China Sea and elsewhere around Japan, but this is the first instance of a territorial airspace violation by a Chinese military aircraft to be publicly confirmed by Tokyo.
Observers say the moves are intended to probe Japan's response time and erode the capabilities of its fighter jets.
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