Asian Canadian Conservatives

"Zhao Wei, a diplomat at China’s consulate in Toronto, was the diplomat who was tasked with working on harassing Conservative MP Michael Chong’s family. 'The government did not inform me that a diplomat was targeting my family, nor did the government take any action to expel the diplomat responsible for orchestrating this intimidation campaign', Chong said in a statement Monday. Chong went on to say that after becoming aware of the interference, and the threats against his family, that two actions should have been taken — neither of which happened. 'First, they should have informed me. Second, they should have declared the diplomat persona non grata', Chong said...Wei is still listed as an active diplomat at China’s consulate in Toronto at this moment...We now have proof of China’s interference in Canada’s democracy going well beyond election campaigns. The government should be giving answers; instead, they are looking after their own interests rather than those of the country."

https://torontosun.com/opinion/columnists/trudeau-knew-but-didnt-act-on-chinas-threats-to-mps-family?fbclid=IwAR33M7ni80P0pBJmpBUdKQNhnZeHmdGUmZWqZl71BnyVt07iQIYxU9LgED0

LILLEY: Trudeau knew but didn't act on China's threats to MP's family Michael Chong's family in Hong Kong was targetted for putting forward a motion on China's genocide. Trudeau's government knew but was silent

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/editorials/article-the-trudeau-liberals-dont-own-our-elections

Globe editorial: The Trudeau Liberals don’t own our elections Mr. Trudeau’s response over the last month to China’s election meddling has been deflection, delay and ducking accountability, all in the hope that the public will eventually lose interest

It’s obvious Trudeau and many of his Liberal Party seek to protect and coverup 🇨🇳 CCP election assistance they continue to receive (CCP media & WeChat endorsements, proxy donations thru pro-CCP Canadian citizens, shell organizations & businesses under CCP direction) that was key to them winning Chinese-populated urban/suburban ridings in order to win elections, Liberals knowing losing their CCP assistance will cost them victory in future elections. The LieBeral Party "of Canada" should rename to who they actually are, "Canadian Communist Puppet (CCP) of PRC" 🇨🇳 .
"'The prime minister is signalling that he's not taking this seriously, and…is being dismissive. And in his actions also is more and more seeming like there's something to hide, all of which is not helping', NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh told reporters. 'It's not helping Canadians have confidence in our democracy, in our electoral system, and it's why it really cries out for a public inquiry. Let's set those questions put to rest…Let's figure out what happened, and what we can do to protect democracy in the future'. The latest round of questions were sparked by new reporting from Global News alleging Trudeau and top officials were briefed on efforts by Beijing to 'covertly' fund election candidates, despite the prime minister's past suggestions to the contrary...Liberal Scarborough-Guildwood, Ont. MP John McKay said the issue is 'far larger' than election interference.
'The government of China is an existential threat to Canada on a multiplicity of levels, and we need to come to grips with that', he said...independent Spadina-Fort York, Ont. MP Kevin Vuong — who ran as Liberal before being disavowed by the party late in the last election — rose in the House and garnered a considerable reaction throughout the chamber when he asked whether the forthcoming rapporteur would also be investigating the Liberal Party.
Alleging that Trudeau was turning a 'blind eye to shady Liberal nominations, sketchy donations, and having pro-Beijing MPs in his own caucus', Vuong questioned why 'nothing was done'."

'Seeming like there's something to hide,' Singh says of Trudeau as foreign interference controversy deepens Questions over interference by China in Canada's last two federal elections continue to rise in Ottawa, as do the accusations the Liberals aren't doing enough to answer them, as Prime Minister Justin Trudeau digs in, declining to offer details about what he knew and when.

Dusty Myshrall seeking UCP nomination in Lacombe-Ponoka constituency Following six years as president and founder of the Alberta Paramedic's Association, Dusty Myshrall has announ...

In its current form, Bill C-11 would require YouTube to manipulate these systems, and surface content according to the CRTC’s priorities, rather than the interests of Canadian users. Put into practice, this means that when viewers come to the YouTube homepage, they’re served content that a Canadian Government regulator has prioritized, rather than content they are interested in.
When users are recommended content that is not personally relevant, they react by tuning out - skipping the video, abandoning the video, or even giving it a ‘thumbs down’. When our Search and Discovery systems receive these signals, they learn that this content is not relevant or engaging for viewers, and then apply this on a global scale. This means that globally, Canadian creators will have a harder time breaking through and connecting with the niche audiences who would actually love their content. That directly hits the bottom line of Canadian creators, making it harder for them to build a sustainable business.
In the spring we saw tens of thousands of Canadian creators raise their voices to share their concerns, but their concerns were not addressed. What’s more, millions of Canadians aren’t even aware of the bill, or that their online experience could potentially change.

Canada: Keep YouTube Yours Our Responsibility to our Canadian Viewers and Creators on YouTube

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-63768538
Thank you for serving as Taiwan's president and standing up to the built across the strait.

Taiwan's President Tsai Ing-wen quits as party chair after local elections President Tsai Ing-wen resigns as head of the governing DPP after its poor showing in local elections.

"Ottawa’s refusal to confront harassment of Tibetans, Uyghurs, Falun Gong and Chinese democracy activists in Canada is shameful. In 2020, then foreign minister François-Philippe Champagne promised to take action, but nothing happened. Last year Rob Oliphant, parliamentary secretary to the minister of foreign affairs, said Canada was 'actively considering' a registry of foreign agents (similar to U.S. and Australian measures) to counter China’s malign activities in Canada. But this was evidently a hollow promise to appease Canadians’ resentment over China’s subversive operations here. Canada seems incapable of doing anything about China, due to the incompatibility of the Ottawa doctrine that we must maintain close relations with Beijing regardless of public opinion. When China’s ambassador in Ottawa threatened Canada about crossing a 'red line' on Taiwan, warning officials to draw lessons from the past (read: hostage diplomacy) if our MPs set foot in Taiwan, our prime minister didn’t even condemn the remarks, but simply urged MPs to reflect on the 'consequences' of such a visit.

The government seems in similar paralysis over naming a new ambassador to China, a position that has been unfilled throughout 2022. Whoever is appointed will inherit the dark shadow of our last two ambassadors — John McCallum and Dominic Barton — who have personal business connections in China and were perceived as promoting Beijing’s interests over Canada’s. When it comes to Chinese diplomacy, Canadians increasingly assume that conflict of interest will prevail over Canada’s national interests and moral integrity.

Last June, Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly announced the formation of Canada’s Indo-Pacific Advisory Committee. After five years of promising a China policy reset, informed sources say the government’s China policy supporters on this committee are debating how to exclude any mention of China whatsoever in our Indo-Pacific policy declaration.

As this theatre of the absurd drags on, Canada’s lack of a principled China policy is debasing any confidence the U.S. and other allies have in Ottawa’s competence. Sadly, based on the performance so far, there is no sign of any meaningful China 'reset' coming out of Ottawa before the next federal election." https://www.thestar.com/opinion/contributors/2022/08/28/ottawa-has-continued-its-mysterious-deference-to-china-what-happened-to-the-promised-reset.html

Michael Taube: Jean Charest is the biggest threat to Conservative unity There’s a popular narrative that Canada’s chattering classes enjoy spouting to anyone within earshot. If Pierre Poilievre becomes the next Conservative leader instead of Jean Charest, they say, he’ll create a massive split in Canada’s conservative movement and guarantee a fourth consecutive ...

CSIS have already warned that Ontario Liberal MPP of Markham, Michael Chan, was a Chinese Communist Party agent working to fulfill his "motherland"s interests & policies within the Ontario government. Kathleen Wynne ignored it.

Polarizing Chinese-Canadian leader re-enters political arena | Globalnews.ca Michael Chan, an influential and polarizing leader in the Greater Toronto Area’s Chinese-Canadian communities, has registered to run for municipal office in Markham, Ont.

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Adam Zivo: Justin Trudeau's reprehensible jab at pro-Taiwanese diplomacy Last Friday, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said during a news conference that his government will ensure that Canadian parliamentarians planning to visit Taiwan as part of an upcoming trade mission “reflect” on the “consequences” of their visit. Trudeau’s euphemistic jab at pro-Taiwanese d...

Canada in the World: The Foreign and Defence Policy Ideas of the Conservative Leadership Candidates Was the nadir of the Trudeau government’s foreign policy when the prime minister beclowned himself in donning an Indian folk costume while on an official state visit? Or when he declared Europe’s acute energy supply crisis would be solved through more wind and solar power? Each became emblematic

We need to secure our supply chains' independence away from China, then Boycott, Divest, Embargo China as during the Cold War, a full trade + travel CoCom embargo. Trudeau Sr. made a grievous mistake to be the first Western leader to visit Mao, and among the first nations to cut relations with dr, the cratic Taiwan and opting for a Communist imperialist who's antithetical to the fundamental democratic & human tights values Canada is founded upon. Trudeau Liberals thinks being contrarian against the US by shaking hands with China Cuba "makes Canada political independent" while he completed the OPPOSITE as seen in last year's Chinese electoral interference that flipped over half dozen Conservative Chinese community ridings to
Liberal, not to mention destroying Canadian industries eg. theft of product blueprints from Nortel !

"Members of Parliament's standing committee on international trade are planning a trip to Taiwan as early as October, says the group's chair Liberal MP Judy Sgro. A potential fall visit to Taiwan by Canadian MPs and senators would come on the heels of U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's visit to the island in early August...Sgro said eight members of the committee — who are all also members of Parliament's Canada-Taiwan Friendship Group — plan to go on the trip. 'The trade committee is very anxious to go and to visit Taiwan and see what opportunities there are for deeper trade relations between our two countries', she said. While acknowledging the 'significant strain' on international relations that followed Pelosi's trip, Sgro said 'we certainly will use diplomacy as we proceed' through what she called a 'necessary' trip.

'Democracy is cherished and an important part of what we all live in every day. We need to protect other countries that have fought for their freedom and for their democracy', she said. 'So, yes, you know, I'm trying to be diplomatic in my comments, but clearly I'm proud that Canada is standing up to China as well. And I think that pushback is very important'...Liberal MP John McKay, who has visited Taiwan several times under the banner of the friendship group, said China's dramatic reaction to Pelosi's visit should not 'in the least' dissuade Canada from following in her footsteps.

'My view is that China is trying to bully Taiwan and indirectly bully the rest of us on a false premise that Taiwan is part of China', McKay said. 'That is nonsense. The Taiwanese have repeatedly expressed their desire to be an independent country and have behaved in an exemplary fashion. Canada should do everything to encourage Taiwan to express its democratic values. This parliamentary trip will encourage that'.

Previous iterations of the Canada-Taiwan Friendship Group have visited the island in the past, as recently as 2014...A delegation of German parliamentarians is also set to visit Taiwan in the first week of October." https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/canada-taiwan-friendship-visit-1.6552635

Entities from antidemocratic hostile regimes as China, Russia and other communists, must be FORBIDDEN from acquiring any nationally-strategic or major industry, company, patents or natural resources, PERIOD! "i admire China's basic dictatorship" Justin Trudeau's Liberals are a puppet of China, that's why Chinese regime propagandists urged Chinese Canadians go vote for his party against Conservatives last year!!

China has encroached on Canada’s critical minerals industry, with almost no obstruction from Ottawa For the past two decades, China has built up a powerful position in Canada’s critical minerals and mining sector, with little oversight from Ottawa

Former CSIS honcho says Canadian politicians are on foreign agents' payroll A former espionage officer claims that some Canadian politicians are on the payroll of foreign agents. According to Blacklock’s Reporter, Michel Juneau-Katsuya, former chief of the Asia-Pacific desk at the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS), told the Commons ethics committee, “There a...

"Michel Juneau-Katsuya, former chief of the Asia-Pacific desk at the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, said, 'We had to monitor parliamentarians. There are elected officials at all levels, whether it’s municipal, provincial or federal, who are being paid by foreign governments and who are not necessarily acting in the interests of Canada'...similar warnings have been made by Canadian security officials for years. 'We see that also, when we see at the end of their mandate, cabinet ministers going to work for a foreign company that works directly against national security and the national interests of Canada', Juneau-Katsuya said...Australia and the U.S. have legislation requiring foreign agents to register when lobbying government officials and other democracies are considering such laws.

In Canada, Conservative Sen. Leo Housakos has a private member’s bill before the Senate — S-237 — An Act to Establish the Foreign Influence Registry. It would create a public registry requiring all federal lobbyists, acting for 'a foreign government, an individual or entity related to a foreign government' to name their clients and fees, under threat of fines of up to $200,000 and two years in jail for failing to do so...We agree with Housakos. Clearly, this information should be available to Canadians, on the public record." https://torontosun.com/opinion/editorials/editorial-time-to-register-foreign-lobbyists

Almost a quarter of the work permits were awarded to those aged 25 or younger. Read more: https://sc.mp/8nhy

Opinion: The Chinese government’s continued assault on Canadian freedoms requires action Transnational repression by the Chinese Communist Party – including the criminal harassment and intimidation of Canadians – is on the rise

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British High Commission in Ottawa to welcome military expert on threat posed by Russia, China in Arctic In a sign of deepening co-operation between Canada and Britain on defence matters, the U.K. is dispatching a former Royal Navy officer and research specialist in Arctic security to Ottawa in September

Have your say ⬆️ With the carbon tax and the 35% tariff applied to imported fertilizer, Canadian agricultural producers are facing immense costs that have continued to drive the price of food up.

INFLATION

Dec '20: 1.4% (Trump's last full month in office)
Feb '21: 1.7%
Apr '21: 4.2%
June '21: 5.4%
Aug '21: 5.3%
Oct '21: 6.2%
Dec '21: 7.0%
Feb '22 : 7.9% (Putin invades Ukraine)
Apr '22: 8.3%
May'22: 8.6%
TODAY: 9.1%

U.S. pushes Canada, Mexico to stop imports of Chinese goods produced by Uyghur slave labor U.S. Trade Representative says China has loomed large in talks, particularly Uyghur forced labour and reliance on Chinese supply chains

"Two Canadian community organizations — one of which has received thousands of dollars in federal funding — are prime examples of how the Chinese government has tried to covertly shape opinions worldwide about human rights abuses in Xinjiang province, says a new report by Australian academics. A profile of the Xinjiang Association of Canada and the Ontario-based Council of Newcomer Organizations — which was co-founded by a former Liberal MP — forms one of four case studies in the Australian Strategic Policy Institute’s Cultivating Friendly Forces report. The two groups and their leaders have consistently promoted Beijing’s talking points on the region in the face of growing evidence of mass human rights abuses against Xinjiang’s Muslim populations, says the working paper by James Liebold, a professor at Melbourne’s La Trobe University, and Lin Li. The groups have been supported by China’s diplomatic missions in Canada, while at least two of their directors were invited to attend events in China as privileged 'overseas Chinese' leaders, says the report, based mostly on Chinese-language media reports and other open-source material from the internet.

'The CCP (Chinese Communist Party) uses these organs as conduits for the spread of propaganda about the ‘harmony, prosperity and happiness’ of people in Xinjiang while deflecting and denying international criticism of its well-documented human rights abuses in the region', the analysis charges. Such groups 'can sow distrust and fear in the community, mislead politicians, journalists and the public, influence government policies, cloud our assessment of the situation in Xinjiang and disguise the CCP’s interference in foreign countries'.

The report urges more efforts by the media, academia and government to expose the Chinese government’s global interference, including with the use of effective foreign-influence registries...The report came as no surprise to Mehmet Tohti, head of the Uyghur Rights Advocacy Project.

The Chinese influence campaign against the Uyghur diaspora has several facets, including intimidation of community members and 'hostage taking' like the 2006 imprisonment of Canadian activist Huseyin Celil, as well as 'disseminating disinformation and fake narratives', he said by email.

'We may see more vigorous moves from China by awakening its sleeper cells in Canada and around the world to promote its narrative on Uyghur genocide and forced labour', Tohti added...the effort is spearheaded by the United Front Work Department, a party branch dedicated to extending China’s influence abroad and greatly expanded in recent years.

The 12-year-old Xinjiang Association of Canada is a good example of ties between such groups and China’s colonizing efforts in the region, says the report. It’s made up mostly of Han Chinese — the country’s dominant group — and its launch was attended by the consul general and other Chinese diplomats in Toronto...Founding president Zhu Jiang’s parents migrated to Xinjiang from China proper as part of efforts to change its ethnic make-up and he joined the People’s Liberation Army at age 15. The report includes a photograph of Zhu in PLA uniform while a player for the Xinjiang Military Command.

He immigrated to Canada in 2001 and in 2019 was invited by the United Front Work Department in Xinjiang and China’s Toronto consulate to attend the lavish celebrations of the People’s Republic’s 70th anniversary...Zhu was also for a time head of the Council of Newcomer Organizations, an umbrella group that included his Xinjiang association....By last year, the council had received at least $160,000 in grants from various federal government departments, the most recent for an elder-abuse program. Zhu was succeeded as head of the newcomer council by Han Jialing, who also has publicly documented ties to Beijing.

As Zhu was at the anniversary celebrations in 2019, Han was 'class captain' of a 'carefully selected' group of overseas Chinese leaders invited to a seminar in China on the nation’s 'great achievements' and thoughts of President Xi Jinping." https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/china-uyghurs-propaganda-canada

The foreign interference we posted on election night last year...

"Rapid Response Mechanism Canada, which tracks foreign interference, says researchers observed Communist party media accounts on Chinese social media platform Douyin widely sharing a narrative that the Conservatives would all but sever diplomatic relations with Beijing. The Sept. 13, 2021 analysis, obtained by The Canadian Press through the Access to Information Act, was prepared just a week before Canadians went to the polls...Rapid Response Mechanism Canada, based at Global Affairs Canada, produces open data analysis to chart trends, strategies and tactics in foreign interference. Its work supports the G7 RRM, an initiative to strengthen co-ordination to identify and respond to threats to the major industrial democracies. The analysis of messaging about the Conservative party was part of RRM Canada's effort to monitor the digital information environment for signs of foreign state-sponsored information manipulation in the general election. Conservative MP Michael Chong, the party's foreign affairs critic, said in an interview the analysis is 'another piece of evidence that the Communist leadership in Beijing interfered in the last general election by spreading disinformation'...RRM Canada says it manually reviewed Chinese social media platforms including WeChat, Douyin, Weibo, Xigua and Bilibili, and conducted open-source forensic digital analysis using website archives, social listening tools, and cross-platform social media ranking tools.

The analysts first noticed the narrative about the Conservatives in two articles published Sept. 8 by the Global Times, a state-owned media tabloid...Several popular Canada-focused WeChat news accounts began engaging with the Global Times narrative on Sept. 9, copying the content and form without crediting the publication, 'obscuring the narrative's point of origin', the analysts found. Accounts also added commentary about the Tories to the articles, such as 'Chinese are frightened by the platform', and questioned whether 'Chinese compatriots should support the Conservatives if they use this rhetoric'.

'Unless otherwise credited, WeChat users would not know that the narrative about the Conservatives and O'Toole originated from the Global Times and would assume the articles were original reporting from the Canadian WeChat accounts'. Many WeChat news accounts that serve Canadians are registered to people in China and despite being well-established news sources, 'some may have unclear links' to Chinese Communist Party media groups, the analysis says...Communist party media accounts on Douyin, the Chinese version of TikTok, published videos that repeated a Sept. 8 Global Times headline, the analysis says...Chong says it's clear that proxies were spreading disinformation on behalf of Beijing in the federal election. 'It's hard to measure whether that was the reason for the loss of some Conservative MPs. But I think we can safely say that it was a contributing factor'.

If Beijing comes to the same conclusion, China 'may very well be emboldened to do something much bigger in a future federal election, undermining our democratic process', Chong said...The Canadian Election Misinformation Project, which brought together several academic researchers, found Chinese officials and state media commented on the election with an apparent aim to convince Canadians of Chinese origin to vote against the Conservative party in 2021...the federal government needs to actively counter foreign disinformation between election campaigns, Chong said.

During campaigns, the government should make analyses from the Rapid Response Mechanism immediately available to inform the public, he added."
https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/canada/beijing-may-have-tried-to-discourage-canadians-from-voting-conservative-federal-unit/ar-AAYLBT1

"Canada’s spy agency has warned some municipalities in British Columbia to be wary of foreign interference in local elections this fall. Vancouver Mayor Kennedy Stewart says the Canadian Security Intelligence Service met with him recently, in what he was told was an unprecedented step, to go over concerns the agency has about the possibility foreign governments could try to affect the outcome of local elections. 'CSIS brought in a fairly high-ranking official as well as their China expert to give me a two-hour briefing on foreign interference in domestic politics', Stewart told the Star. 'They said they didn’t normally reach out to locally elected officials but felt it was necessary in this case'.

A source with the Vancouver suburb of Port Coquitlam said officials there had a similar briefing. Another suburb, Richmond, confirmed a meeting with CSIS...Stewart said his briefing included ways foreign interference might take place in local elections but didn’t go into specific details. CSIS left him with a handbook and sheet on what he should be aware of. 'If there was any interference, I’d be afraid that it could have quite a substantive impact on our local elections here', he said.

Foreign interference in Canada’s elections have been a concern particularly since last year’s federal election. Some Conservative MPs reported misinformation campaigns against them on Chinese social media sites aimed at dissuading Chinese-language voters from supporting them, which some say may have contributed to their election losses...Though local elections don’t enjoy the same turnout or attention higher levels of government do, they can be fertile ground for interference, says Akshay Singh, an international affairs and security expert and non-resident research fellow at the Council on International Policy.

'It doesn’t necessarily matter which level of government an official is at for them to be able to try to grow influence with them', Singh said. 'With China I would even say in some cases it might actually be more useful for them to grow influence at a non-federal level'.

Singh stressed such attempts of foreign governments trying to influence elections are not limited to China. He said the staff of politicians are also potential targets. Municipal governments have more direct control over local policy, he said; mayors can make local decisions considered friendly to Beijing. They can also pressure governments above them to make decisions the Chinese Communist Party would like.

Initiatives such as China’s United Front Work Department, tasked with furthering the CCP’s agenda at home and abroad, are part of the effort. 'They want to build a community of shared voices across levels so that they can have more people than not provide things that support the CCP’s interests', Singh said.

For example, he said, if there’s a trade dispute between national governments, local politicians can be used to leverage their concerns to federal counterparts...Stewart, meanwhile, said during his meeting with CSIS he outlined ongoing 'tensions' with Chinese officials posted in Vancouver.

After the Chinese government put sanctions on Canadian officials for speaking out about human rights abuses in China, Stewart said he cut off contact with China’s consul general in Vancouver. 'I publicly issued a statement saying I would no longer meet or communicate with Chinese officials', he said. 'That, I don’t think was taken in very good light'.”
https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2022/06/24/canadas-spy-agency-is-briefing-local-vancouver-area-politicians-on-foreign-interference.html