Rapporteur David Johnson, Eminent Canadian

Ron in Regina

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But they are the best and brightest entitled to their entitlements .
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Came with its own script and CBC set up question:
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and its supporters have long been strategic about using allegations of racism as a shield to prevent the Canadian government from fighting foreign interference. Canadian elites who parrot Beijing’s lines are falling squarely into its trap.
One of the biggest brakes on collective action by Canadians of all stripes and at all levels — federal, provincial, municipal, academic, media — is the misapprehension that inaction spares Canadians of Chinese heritage from racism. Conversely, any action supposedly risks increasing racism, racial profiling and other indignities.
On a recent episode of CBC’s “Ideas,” one interviewee went so far as to invoke the internment of Japanese-Canadians during the Second World War, cautioning against “the biggest concern”: a repeat of history.

That line of argument is simply wrong. It is grounded neither in fact nor in history, but it is actively encouraged by the CCP. It’s curious that members of Canada’s elite who trumpet that line already tend to have a robust record of cozying up to Beijing.
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A public inquiry could readily ascertain the extent to which they are actually beholden to the regime. The prime minister’s staunch refusal to call such an inquiry is stoking flames of suspicion.
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Yet those who have for years warned of growing interference and have discussed their personal experiences of being harassed by a foreign government are overwhelmingly Asian-Canadians. Canadians of Chinese heritage are already being racially profiled on Canadian soil — by the United Front Work Department’s (UFWD) Overseas Chinese Affairs Office.
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Which makes the Japanese internment example so irresponsible and ignorant, but powerful as a recipe for inaction. During the Second World War, Japanese-Canadians were not being systematically targeted and harassed in Canada by the imperial Japanese government. They were being scapegoated by Canadians. That is not the source of the threat here.

Canada urgently needs a (much) more sophisticated public discussion of who the real victims of the Chinese government’s racial narratives are. The CCP’s propaganda aims to convince those who are of Chinese heritage that they owe allegiance to the motherland. That kind of CCP-driven narrative is the root cause of much of the racism here, and it’s exacerbated by members of Canada’s elite who have been amplifying Beijing’s false narratives.
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Canadians of Chinese heritage, no less than of any other heritage, must know that they can count on the full and active support of the federal government in combating foreign interference and disinformation aimed at them. Victims of CCP racism have been speaking out for years, but their cries for help are being drowned out by false narratives designed to play into the hands of the Chinese government.
 

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Good work there Ron, sums it up nicely. One thing we know for sure about the Chinese government is that it's devious, subtle, and everything it does has an ulterior motive. Playing the racism card is like playing the Nazi card, it's just an attempt to shut down a serious conversation about reality. "During the Second World War, Japanese-Canadians were not being systematically targeted and harassed in Canada by the imperial Japanese government. They were being scapegoated by Canadians. That is not the source of the threat here." That's the key idea alright. We bloody well better have that conversation/investigation or it'll just get worse.
 

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Good work there Ron, sums it up nicely. One thing we know for sure about the Chinese government is that it's devious, subtle, and everything it does has an ulterior motive. Playing the racism card is like playing the Nazi card, it's just an attempt to shut down a serious conversation about reality. "During the Second World War, Japanese-Canadians were not being systematically targeted and harassed in Canada by the imperial Japanese government. They were being scapegoated by Canadians. That is not the source of the threat here." That's the key idea alright. We bloody well better have that conversation/investigation or it'll just get worse.
most of the interned Japanese were not agents of Japan but you are naive to think none were .
 
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Ron in Regina

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Interference in our elections is racist. When it cones to racism nobody but nobody beats the Han Chinese.
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OTTAWA -- Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's Liberal government plans to launch a National Counter-Foreign Interference Office, amid ongoing scrutiny of allegations that Beijing interfered in recent federal elections.

Tuesday's federal budget earmarked $56 million over five years for measures to combat foreign interference, threats and covert activities.

Keep in mind, that any Liberal/NDP promise beyond 2025 is just smoke & mirrors…as beyond the next federal election in 2025, it’s just false promises dumped on the next government just like the debt being dumped on our grandchildren.

The budget document says the new office will be created within the Department of Public Safety, but it does not include a timeline for its launch.

The measures come as former governor general David Johnston takes up his role as a special rapporteur, with a mandate to sort out whether Trudeau should call the public inquiry demanded by the three opposition parties, & the NDP.

The Liberals are also proposing legislative amendments that would task a federal banking watchdog with determining whether large financial institutions "have adequate policies and procedures to protect themselves against threats to their integrity and security, including protection against foreign interference."

The Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions would also be given the powers to take control of a bank "where there are national security risks."

Hmmmm….That sounds vaguely familiar like I’ve heard it somewhere before or something like it about February 14th 2022 or so….

The proposed legislative changes would enact whistleblower protections and crack down on people who avoid reporting requirements by using a series of small transactions.

Ottawa would also compel banks to report on assets held by people who are subject to sanctions, beefing up existing rules that generally only compel such reporting on clients suspected of terrorist financing and money laundering.

Anyway, more about this reactive posturing, as opposed to actually stating what the Prime Minister knew about election interference prior, and during the last two federal elections in 2019 & 2021 at the below link:
 

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Money laundering is something the Liberals are very good at. They can take our money, give it to their supporter, and tell us it is for our own good with a straight face.
 
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On China, it’s been “We’ve got this China election interference stuff under control, has been the Liberal message.

Reports of Chinese money going to federal candidates were inaccurate, they said; or racist, they added, or was the work of “alt-right, hate-filled” Conservatives doing Beijing’s bidding.

In essence: There’s nothing to see here.

Only when the torrent of reports about China’s interference become overwhelming did the government admit: OK, maybe we have got a problem here. Let’s appointment a special rapporteur.

This week’s appointment of an interim ethics commissioner with family ties to a Liberal cabinet minister caused an uproar in the house on Wednesday.

In a heated exchange during question period, Conservative MP Michael Barrett revealed that newly appointed Interim Ethics Commissioner Martine Richard is the sister-in-law of Intergovernmental Affairs Minister Dominic LeBlanc — a veteran parliamentarian with a history of running afoul of Canada’s conflict-of-interest laws. Nothing to see here. Move along…

Government House Leader Mark Holland did not deny the allegation, instead assuring that measures are in place to ensure the appointment didn’t violate the rules, etc…

“The intergovernmental affairs minister — the new ethics commissioner’s brother-in-law — was found guilty of breaking the Conflict of Interest Act, the Prime Minister was found guilty of breaking the Act, the (international) trade minister was found guilty of breaking the Act,” Barrett countered. “How can Canadians have confidence in the officers of Parliament if these guys are stacking the deck?”

Holland said questions concerning Richard’s integrity are “conspiracy theories” that belong on the internet discussion website Reddit rather than in the House of Commons, etc…

(LeBlanc is no stranger to running afoul of Canadian ethics rules. In 2018, the ethics commissioner ruled LeBlanc violated the Conflict of Interest Act when, as fisheries minister, he approved a licence to harvest Arctic surf clam for a company that employed his wife’s first cousin.)

Last year, International Trade Minister Mary Ng broke ethics rules by awarding a contract to a friend’s public relations firm.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau violated ethics rules twice — first in 2017 for accepting a family vacation at the Aga Khan’s private island in the Bahamas, and again two years later for improperly trying to influence former Justice Minister Jody Wilson-Raybould into dropping criminal prosecution into SNC-Lavalin.

This isn’t the first time concerns were raised over Richard’s role in the commissioner’s office. In April 2019, Senator Denise Batters raised concerns on the floor of the senate over Richard’s appointment as the office’s acting director of investigations.

“In what world would it be appropriate that a senior cabinet minister Dominic LeBlanc’s sister-in-law would be able to be involved at that high level investigating any Trudeau government minister, or Prime Minister Trudeau,” she said at the time. Nothing to see here. Move along.
 

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On China, it’s been “We’ve got this China election interference stuff under control, has been the Liberal message.

Reports of Chinese money going to federal candidates were inaccurate, they said; or racist, they added, or was the work of “alt-right, hate-filled” Conservatives doing Beijing’s bidding.

In essence: There’s nothing to see here.

Only when the torrent of reports about China’s interference become overwhelming did the government admit: OK, maybe we have got a problem here. Let’s appointment a special rapporteur.

This week’s appointment of an interim ethics commissioner with family ties to a Liberal cabinet minister caused an uproar in the house on Wednesday.

In a heated exchange during question period, Conservative MP Michael Barrett revealed that newly appointed Interim Ethics Commissioner Martine Richard is the sister-in-law of Intergovernmental Affairs Minister Dominic LeBlanc — a veteran parliamentarian with a history of running afoul of Canada’s conflict-of-interest laws. Nothing to see here. Move along…

Government House Leader Mark Holland did not deny the allegation, instead assuring that measures are in place to ensure the appointment didn’t violate the rules, etc…

“The intergovernmental affairs minister — the new ethics commissioner’s brother-in-law — was found guilty of breaking the Conflict of Interest Act, the Prime Minister was found guilty of breaking the Act, the (international) trade minister was found guilty of breaking the Act,” Barrett countered. “How can Canadians have confidence in the officers of Parliament if these guys are stacking the deck?”

Holland said questions concerning Richard’s integrity are “conspiracy theories” that belong on the internet discussion website Reddit rather than in the House of Commons, etc…

(LeBlanc is no stranger to running afoul of Canadian ethics rules. In 2018, the ethics commissioner ruled LeBlanc violated the Conflict of Interest Act when, as fisheries minister, he approved a licence to harvest Arctic surf clam for a company that employed his wife’s first cousin.)

Last year, International Trade Minister Mary Ng broke ethics rules by awarding a contract to a friend’s public relations firm.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau violated ethics rules twice — first in 2017 for accepting a family vacation at the Aga Khan’s private island in the Bahamas, and again two years later for improperly trying to influence former Justice Minister Jody Wilson-Raybould into dropping criminal prosecution into SNC-Lavalin.

This isn’t the first time concerns were raised over Richard’s role in the commissioner’s office. In April 2019, Senator Denise Batters raised concerns on the floor of the senate over Richard’s appointment as the office’s acting director of investigations.

“In what world would it be appropriate that a senior cabinet minister Dominic LeBlanc’s sister-in-law would be able to be involved at that high level investigating any Trudeau government minister, or Prime Minister Trudeau,” she said at the time. Nothing to see here. Move along.
It's truly disturbing & what makes it even worse is that most Canadians aren't paying attention.
 
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On China, it’s been “We’ve got this China election interference stuff under control, has been the Liberal message.

Reports of Chinese money going to federal candidates were inaccurate, they said; or racist, they added, or was the work of “alt-right, hate-filled” Conservatives doing Beijing’s bidding.

In essence: There’s nothing to see here.

Only when the torrent of reports about China’s interference become overwhelming did the government admit: OK, maybe we have got a problem here. Let’s appointment a special rapporteur.

This week’s appointment of an interim ethics commissioner with family ties to a Liberal cabinet minister caused an uproar in the house on Wednesday.

In a heated exchange during question period, Conservative MP Michael Barrett revealed that newly appointed Interim Ethics Commissioner Martine Richard is the sister-in-law of Intergovernmental Affairs Minister Dominic LeBlanc — a veteran parliamentarian with a history of running afoul of Canada’s conflict-of-interest laws. Nothing to see here. Move along…

Government House Leader Mark Holland did not deny the allegation, instead assuring that measures are in place to ensure the appointment didn’t violate the rules, etc…

“The intergovernmental affairs minister — the new ethics commissioner’s brother-in-law — was found guilty of breaking the Conflict of Interest Act, the Prime Minister was found guilty of breaking the Act, the (international) trade minister was found guilty of breaking the Act,” Barrett countered. “How can Canadians have confidence in the officers of Parliament if these guys are stacking the deck?”

Holland said questions concerning Richard’s integrity are “conspiracy theories” that belong on the internet discussion website Reddit rather than in the House of Commons, etc…

(LeBlanc is no stranger to running afoul of Canadian ethics rules. In 2018, the ethics commissioner ruled LeBlanc violated the Conflict of Interest Act when, as fisheries minister, he approved a licence to harvest Arctic surf clam for a company that employed his wife’s first cousin.)

Last year, International Trade Minister Mary Ng broke ethics rules by awarding a contract to a friend’s public relations firm.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau violated ethics rules twice — first in 2017 for accepting a family vacation at the Aga Khan’s private island in the Bahamas, and again two years later for improperly trying to influence former Justice Minister Jody Wilson-Raybould into dropping criminal prosecution into SNC-Lavalin.

This isn’t the first time concerns were raised over Richard’s role in the commissioner’s office. In April 2019, Senator Denise Batters raised concerns on the floor of the senate over Richard’s appointment as the office’s acting director of investigations.

“In what world would it be appropriate that a senior cabinet minister Dominic LeBlanc’s sister-in-law would be able to be involved at that high level investigating any Trudeau government minister, or Prime Minister Trudeau,” she said at the time. Nothing to see here. Move along.
Thank you Jug Head .
 

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People need to realize that what is happening in the U.S. is happening here and vice versa. Trudeau is following Biden & Soros' hand book of destroying countries from within. Soros especially is really good at that. Trudeau admires him so you can see that he's just as corrupt as Soros is.

I don't understand why Soros is getting away with funding DA's etc. I guess there is no laws citing a limit to legal donations to campaigns by the look of it. Too bad, so sad.
 

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You mean you have morons shooting up schools on a regular basis up there too?

What was True Dope following during the five-and-some years he was PM before Biden became President?
Nah we just have knifing sat the subway . Usually played on Saturday night but sometimes on weekday afternoons .