Why can't they fix their own elections?:
Senior Liberal Party managers attended MP Han Dong’s 2019 nomination meeting deemed a target of Chinese agents, according to documents released yesterday by the Commission on Foreign Interference. “Party brass from Ottawa were at the nomination vote,” one eyewitness said in sworn statement: “They wanted to know whether there was anything the media could pick up on to tarnish the campaign.”
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CSIS director David Vigneault says his agency had intelligence ahead of the 2019 federal election that the government of China attempted to funnel — through a network of “threat actors” — approximately $250,000, possibly to interfere in Canadian elections.
The document was shown Thursday at Canada’s inquiry into foreign election interference, which is examining attempts to meddle in Canadian democracy during the 2019 and 2021 elections.
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There likely were at least two transfer of funds approximating $250,000 from PRC officials in Canada, possibly for FI[foreign interference]-related purposes, though most likely not in an attempt to covertly fund the 11 candidates,” it reads.
Ms. Drouin was asked whether she knew specifically about that specific transfer of funds allegation.
“I don’t recall receiving that level of granularities, that level of details,” she said. “I didn’t know about the fact that it was going to potentially 11 candidates. That report regarding this intel came after the election.”
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Large cash contributions by Chinese agents to friendly public office holders breached the Elections Act, says an internal 2022 federal memo. Repeated warnings of at least $250,000 in illegal political donations were known to cabinet-appointed election monitors but never made public, the China inquiry learned yesterday: “We were not a court.”
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Federal 2021 election monitors knew Chinese agents sought to re-elect the Liberal Party, document show. Witnesses at the China inquiry have questioned why monitors failed to issue any public warnings of foreign interference: “A Liberal minority was the preferred election outcome of the People’s Republic of China as the Liberal Party was perceived to be ‘friendlier.'”
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A real country would charge these people with treason:
A briefing document from Canada’s spy agency presented before Monday’s public inquiry into foreign interference says it knew China “clandestinely and deceptively interfered” in the past two federal votes.
The heavily redacted six-page document from February 2023 — labelled “Briefing to the Prime Minister’s Office on foreign interference threats to Canada’s democratic institutions” — emerged during Monday’s hearing at the public inquiry into foreign interference.
Earlier, senior government officials who monitored threats during the 2021 and 2019 elections testified that their intelligence did not meet the high threshold for warning Canadians.
The document was prepared by CSIS following anonymous leaks to the media in the fall of 2022 about foreign interference allegations.
The document says the agency took the leaks “extremely seriously” because they posed a “direct threat” to the integrity of operations.
It also notes that in 2021, Chinese foreign interference activities were likely prompted by a Conservative campaign platform that was perceived as anti-China.
More:
Canada's spy agency believes the Chinese government "clandestinely and deceptively" interfered in both the 2019 and 2021 federal elections — and a top secret briefing note discussed at the Foreign Interference Commission shows the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) told the Prime Minister's Office about it in February 2023.
The document, described by one lawyer appearing before the commission's public inquiry as "remarkable," was tabled on Monday.
It is a briefing for the Prime Minister's Office drafted following the publication of stories by The Globe and Mail and Global News that contained intelligence leaks about foreign interference by the People's Republic of China (PRC).
"We know the PRC clandestinely and deceptively interfered both in the 2019 and 2021 general elections. In both cases, [foreign interference ... was] pragmatic in nature and focused primarily in supporting those viewed to be either 'pro-PRC' or 'neutral' on issues of interest to the PRC government," the document says under the subhead "Assertions in Media Reporting."
The document alleges that at least 11 candidates and 13 staff members were implicated in foreign interference by the Chinese government, and that multiple political parties were involved.
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Johnston, whom Prime Minister Justin Trudeau appointed a special rapporteur on foreign interference, ruled out calling a public inquiry last May.
Had Johnston’s recommendation been accepted, a trove of national security documents released this week by the Foreign Interference Commission would have never seen the light of day.
The new information, submitted by CSIS, highlights allegations of the People’s Republic of China’s (PRC) “highly capable and motivated” activities against Canada’s democratic process and institutions.
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A former Conservative MP named as a target of Chinese Communist Party agents in the 2021 campaign yesterday said he felt like Canadian election monitors left him to drown. “The government doesn’t seem to care,” Kenny Chiu testified at the China inquiry.
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I guess no one could hire translators:
Federal election monitors attached little significance to suspected Communist Party meddling via Chinese language media posts because they were “written in Mandarin,” a cabinet aide told the China inquiry. None of five cabinet appointees assigned to keep a lookout for foreign agents spoke Chinese: “The fact it is written in Mandarin meant the content would likely only reach Chinese diaspora readers.”
The amount of corruption and treason is so obvious.
Nothing short of a revolution can fix this.
A real country would cut these demons off:
Beijing is seeking to improve relations with Ottawa after years of diplomatic unease, and though it's not clear whether Canada is ready to play ball, some experts say there are practical reasons to look for better co-operation.
"The strained relations between our two countries is actually not what we would like to see," China’s ambassador to Canada, Cong Peiwu, said in a recent interview.
"We can be engaged in a candid and constructive dialogue."
How about: go to hell?
Where are the human rights activists on this?:
In its 2023 report, ChinaAid shed light on the CCP’s open oppression of Christians in the ongoing campaign referred to as the “Sinicization of Christianity.” According to the report, Sinicization aims to undermine and disband churches, replacing Christian faith with Communist Party loyalty. The Sinicization of Christianity is codified into Chinese law.
The persecution of churches and Christians in China, according to the report, takes place through the oppression of churches and interruption of regular church activities. It further includes opposing Christianity, restricting evangelism, and suppressing social activities, persecution of justice-seeking Christians in public spheres, persecution in economic, social, cultural, and academic spheres, and fraud charges against house churches for receiving tithes and offerings. “Few Christians and churches, if any at all, were left untouched by the persecution efforts of the Chinese government,” says the report.
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