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Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre said trade with China is no substitute for trade with the United States and Canada should build on its leverage to secure a tariff-free trade deal with our neighbour to the south.

“Canada’s prosperity and security are inseparable from a stable relationship with the United States,” said Poilievre, during a speech at the Economic Club of Canada in Toronto on Thursday.

“That is why we should not declare a permanent rupture from our biggest customer and closest neighbour in favour of a strategic partnership for a new world order with Beijing–a regime the prime minister said a year ago was the biggest threat to Canada.”

Poilievre said U.S. President Donald Trump’s comments and trade actions have understandably upset Canadians, but that his words should “not distract us from the work here at home.”

“The most effective response to uncertainty is not outrage,” said Poilievre. “It is results.”

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The Department of Public Safety never undertook any security review of the subsidized purchase of Chinese vessels because rules don’t permit it, Minister Gary Anandasangaree said yesterday. “We had no authority to undertake that review,” he told the Commons transport committee.

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What may not be as well known is that in Canada’s smallest province, the picturesque Prince Edward Island (PEI), the CCP has been accused of using Buddhist monasteries as money laundering fronts to the tune of half a billion dollars.

Indeed, a report from late last year noted how Buddhist monks and nuns from a group called Bliss and Wisdom showed recent tax filings with about $500 million in assets.

The monks first came to PEI in 2008, and now number in the hundreds. The monks claim to follow Tibet’s Buddhist tradition; however, it is interesting in that the Dalai Lama does not recognize the group’s original spiritual leader.

The group has been under suspicion for so long that even a former Canadian CSIS intelligence officer, Michel Juneau-Katsuya, and Garry Clement, a former national director for the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) Proceeds of Crime Program, wrote a book about the Buddhist monks.

Their book, titled Canada Under Siege: How P.E.I. became a forward operating base for the Chinese Communist Party, “pulls back the curtain on how the Chinese Communist Party quietly turned Prince Edward Island into a strategic forward operating base – right under the noses of Islanders and Ottawa alike.”

Juneau-Katsuya has called for a federal investigation into the group, and the story has become too large to ignore for the PEI government.

Indeed, in February 2025, PEI’s government ordered a full investigation into two Buddhist groups’ land holdings as well as an investigation into another Buddhist organization. The groups are Great Wisdom Buddhist Institute Inc. and Great Enlightenment Buddhist Institute Society.

The PEI government ordered the province’s regulatory commission in charge of land transactions to release the results of an investigation that was supposed to have been done in 2018.

Then, in October 2025, when the regulatory commission was given a subpoena by the PEI government, the commission admitted that there was no report made in 2018 to investigate Buddhist land purchases.

As a result, Premier Rob Lantz of PEI asked the RCMP to launch a full investigation into what he said were “allegations of foreign interference and money laundering” in his province.

He said the investigation was needed as the people of the province “deserve answers.”

After this, the RCMP then said it had done its own investigation into money laundering and foreign interference on the island, but to date “all investigations were concluded as unfounded.”

However, it did say that due to new information coming to light, it would review its findings from the past.

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Et tu, Korea?:

In short:

South Korea became structurally vulnerable to rapid Sinicization not because of isolated pro-China behavior, but because its governance architecture was increasingly aligned — often unintentionally — with the systemic logic of the CCP.

This chapter explains the…

— Gordon G. Chang (@GordonGChang) February 20, 2026

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South Korea is writing a law that lets the government dissolve any church it doesn’t like.

This isn’t speculation. Bill No. 2215932 was introduced to Parliament on January 9, 2026.

Here’s what the bill actually does:
∙Lets government officials enter church buildings and…

— The Monarch Report (@monarchreport25) February 24, 2026