We Don't Have to Trade With China

Let them fix their own elections:

A majority of Canadians believe illegal foreign money is influencing federal elections, according to in-house research by Elections Canada. 

 

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British Columbia Premier David Eby asked the Prime Minister’s Office for security checks on provincial candidates including members of his own New Democratic Party, records show. An internal memo yesterday disclosed at the Commission on Foreign Interference said Eby worried about “covert ties to foreign states or significant organized crime links.”

 

Oh, he damn well knew:

A 2021 analysis of China’s foreign interference operations intended to spark discussion among senior government figures did not make it to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau or cabinet ministers, the Hogue commission heard Monday.

The report, produced by the Privy Council Office (PCO) and the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) and delivered in January 2022, was stalled for months in the office of Trudeau’s then-national security adviser, Jody Thomas.

The foreign interference inquiry, overseen by Justice Marie-Josée Hogue, has heard repeatedly about the challenges of ensuring that vital intelligence reaches senior decision-makers.

As the nerve centre of government, PCO has a division called the Intelligence Assessment Secretariat, tasked with supporting the prime minister and their national security adviser digest intel from a variety of sources.

The 2021 analysis attempted to combine what CSIS knew about China’s operations in Canada, gleaned from roughly 100 separate intelligence reports, with trends observed in Beijing’s interventions overseas.

National security sources told Global News that the report made it to Trudeau and select cabinet ministers, allegations which the government broadly denied.

Martin Green, a former senior intelligence official with PCO, recommended to Thomas that the report be shared widely — to select senior bureaucrats and cabinet ministers, as well as within the security and intelligence community.

That does not appear to have happened. Green testified Monday that he delivered the report to Thomas in January 2022, and raised the issue repeatedly over several months, but the report does not appear to have received final approval or made it to the prime minister’s desk.

 

I realise that Justin's underlings are trying to run interference for him but either he knows full well the extent of Chinese communist incursion into this country or he is too stupid to do his job.

Either way, he must go. 

Why not warn them now?

Or is one dragging one's feet for a reason?:

The federal government plans to convene a meeting of foreign ambassadors next month to warn them not to interfere in the next election.

Testifying before the inquiry into foreign interference in Canada, David Morrison, deputy minister of Foreign Affairs, said his department is preparing for the next federal election and wants to make sure that diplomats from other countries know where Canada draws the line between attempts to influence and attempts to interfere.

"I think we should, and will be, crystal clear with foreign missions here in town and their consulates throughout the country as to what we consider to be acceptable diplomatic activity and exactly where we draw the line," Morrison told the inquiry.