Rapporteur David Johnson, Eminent Canadian

[Ron in Regina]

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said he “shared the best information” he had at the time when asked to explain Friday why he told media that a report about China targeting an MP and his family never circulated outside Canada’s spy service.

Conservative MP Michael Chong, whom The Globe and Mail reported this week was targeted by Beijing, told the House of Commons Thursday that he was later informed by a top civil servant that the spy service’s July 20, 2021 assessment went all the way to desk of the national security adviser to the Prime Minister.

This version of events contradicts what the Prime Minister told reporters Wednesday when he said the spy service didn’t feel the report met “a threshold that required them to pass it up – up out of CSIS.”

Mr. Chong’s revelation in Question Period fuelled another day of intense debate on a story that has dominated Parliament this week and shed more light on the intelligence failure surrounding the MP’s case. He didn’t learn of the threat to him and his family until the Globe reported it Monday, citing a top-secret Canadian Security Intelligence Service memo dated July 20, 2021, and a national security source.

The national security adviser counsels the Prime Minister on security and intelligence matters and is associate secretary in the Privy Council Office. The Privy Council Office is the bureaucratic arm of the Prime Minister’s Office.

Mr. Trudeau, speaking to reporters Friday at the governing Liberal Party’s policy convention, repeated that neither he nor the Public Safety Minister were informed of the threat to Mr. Chong in 2021.

He did not contradict or challenge Mr. Chong’s statement in the Commons about where the CSIS report reached, etc…

Trudeau says he ‘shared the best information’ he had at the time when he said CSIS report never left the agency — The Globe and Mail

PM pressed to explain why Conservative MP was told the report reached the desk of PM’s national security adviser

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[55Mercury]

so the Prime Traitor lies not only to Canadians in general but to his own party! nice

 

[Ron in Regina]

so the Prime Traitor lies not only to Canadians in general but to his own party! nice

Maybe it’s not a lie, but it just wasn’t important enough to look up for him at the time, or somebody misinformed him or disinformed him?

“As I said on Wednesday, to Michael Chong and to Canadians, information that was released on Monday through the media never made it to me, to my office or to the minister at the time,” he said. Bill Blair was Public Safety Minister back in July 2021 when the CSIS report was produced.

Mr. Trudeau suggested he was acting on incomplete information when he said Thursday the CSIS report never left CSIS.

“In terms of what I shared. I shared the best information I had at the time on Wednesday, both to Mr. Chong and to Canadians,” he told reporters.

Pressed on who misinformed him, he declined to elaborate, etc…(I can mentally hear the back up, beeper’s on the bus that somebody might get thrown under)…

“I get a briefings regularly from various sources. I’m not going to go into details on that. I will say however, that as new information comes to light, we will share it as best as possible,” Mr. Trudeau said.

He repeated what he said earlier this week, that he directed CSIS to alert the government from now on whenever it receives intelligence on threats to MPs or their families. “Moving forward, any threat, whether it’s serious or credible or not, to a Member of Parliament, or their family, particularly from foreign sources, needs to be elevated to higher levels than it was.” Etc…

 

[pgs]

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said he “shared the best information” he had at the time when asked to explain Friday why he told media that a report about China targeting an MP and his family never circulated outside Canada’s spy service.

Conservative MP Michael Chong, whom The Globe and Mail reported this week was targeted by Beijing, told the House of Commons Thursday that he was later informed by a top civil servant that the spy service’s July 20, 2021 assessment went all the way to desk of the national security adviser to the Prime Minister.

This version of events contradicts what the Prime Minister told reporters Wednesday when he said the spy service didn’t feel the report met “a threshold that required them to pass it up – up out of CSIS.”

Mr. Chong’s revelation in Question Period fuelled another day of intense debate on a story that has dominated Parliament this week and shed more light on the intelligence failure surrounding the MP’s case. He didn’t learn of the threat to him and his family until the Globe reported it Monday, citing a top-secret Canadian Security Intelligence Service memo dated July 20, 2021, and a national security source.

The national security adviser counsels the Prime Minister on security and intelligence matters and is associate secretary in the Privy Council Office. The Privy Council Office is the bureaucratic arm of the Prime Minister’s Office.

Mr. Trudeau, speaking to reporters Friday at the governing Liberal Party’s policy convention, repeated that neither he nor the Public Safety Minister were informed of the threat to Mr. Chong in 2021.

He did not contradict or challenge Mr. Chong’s statement in the Commons about where the CSIS report reached, etc…

Trudeau says he ‘shared the best information’ he had at the time when he said CSIS report never left the agency — The Globe and Mail

PM pressed to explain why Conservative MP was told the report reached the desk of PM’s national security adviser

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Of course he didn’t know , his staff knew but Trudeau himself no . He doesn’t have time for such serious matters when there is a world to save from the carbon monster .

 

[petros]

Of course he didn’t know , his staff knew but Trudeau himself no . He doesn’t have time for such serious matters when there is a world to save from the carbon monster .

Scandals balance themselves.

 

[pgs]

Scandals balance themselves.

Stop Harper .

 

[Taxslave2]

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said he “shared the best information” he had at the time when asked to explain Friday why he told media that a report about China targeting an MP and his family never circulated outside Canada’s spy service.

Conservative MP Michael Chong, whom The Globe and Mail reported this week was targeted by Beijing, told the House of Commons Thursday that he was later informed by a top civil servant that the spy service’s July 20, 2021 assessment went all the way to desk of the national security adviser to the Prime Minister.

This version of events contradicts what the Prime Minister told reporters Wednesday when he said the spy service didn’t feel the report met “a threshold that required them to pass it up – up out of CSIS.”

Mr. Chong’s revelation in Question Period fuelled another day of intense debate on a story that has dominated Parliament this week and shed more light on the intelligence failure surrounding the MP’s case. He didn’t learn of the threat to him and his family until the Globe reported it Monday, citing a top-secret Canadian Security Intelligence Service memo dated July 20, 2021, and a national security source.

The national security adviser counsels the Prime Minister on security and intelligence matters and is associate secretary in the Privy Council Office. The Privy Council Office is the bureaucratic arm of the Prime Minister’s Office.

Mr. Trudeau, speaking to reporters Friday at the governing Liberal Party’s policy convention, repeated that neither he nor the Public Safety Minister were informed of the threat to Mr. Chong in 2021.

He did not contradict or challenge Mr. Chong’s statement in the Commons about where the CSIS report reached, etc…

Trudeau says he ‘shared the best information’ he had at the time when he said CSIS report never left the agency — The Globe and Mail

PM pressed to explain why Conservative MP was told the report reached the desk of PM’s national security adviser

apple.news

This is a prime example of why we need strong whistle blower protection. Left leaning governments cannot be trusted.

 

[Taxslave2]

so the Prime Traitor lies not only to Canadians in general but to his own party! nice

At least he is consistent.

 

[Taxslave2]

Maybe it’s not a lie, but it just wasn’t important enough to look up for him at the time, or somebody misinformed him or disinformed him?

“As I said on Wednesday, to Michael Chong and to Canadians, information that was released on Monday through the media never made it to me, to my office or to the minister at the time,” he said. Bill Blair was Public Safety Minister back in July 2021 when the CSIS report was produced.

Mr. Trudeau suggested he was acting on incomplete information when he said Thursday the CSIS report never left CSIS.

“In terms of what I shared. I shared the best information I had at the time on Wednesday, both to Mr. Chong and to Canadians,” he told reporters.

Pressed on who misinformed him, he declined to elaborate, etc…(I can mentally hear the back up, beeper’s on the bus that somebody might get thrown under)…

“I get a briefings regularly from various sources. I’m not going to go into details on that. I will say however, that as new information comes to light, we will share it as best as possible,” Mr. Trudeau said.

He repeated what he said earlier this week, that he directed CSIS to alert the government from now on whenever it receives intelligence on threats to MPs or their families. “Moving forward, any threat, whether it’s serious or credible or not, to a Member of Parliament, or their family, particularly from foreign sources, needs to be elevated to higher levels than it was.” Etc…

Meaning, he lied and got caught at it again.

 

[Ron in Regina]

Meaning, he lied and got caught at it again.

 

[Dixie Cup]

Maybe it’s not a lie, but it just wasn’t important enough to look up for him at the time, or somebody misinformed him or disinformed him?

“As I said on Wednesday, to Michael Chong and to Canadians, information that was released on Monday through the media never made it to me, to my office or to the minister at the time,” he said. Bill Blair was Public Safety Minister back in July 2021 when the CSIS report was produced.

Mr. Trudeau suggested he was acting on incomplete information when he said Thursday the CSIS report never left CSIS.

“In terms of what I shared. I shared the best information I had at the time on Wednesday, both to Mr. Chong and to Canadians,” he told reporters.

Pressed on who misinformed him, he declined to elaborate, etc…(I can mentally hear the back up, beeper’s on the bus that somebody might get thrown under)…

“I get a briefings regularly from various sources. I’m not going to go into details on that. I will say however, that as new information comes to light, we will share it as best as possible,” Mr. Trudeau said.

He repeated what he said earlier this week, that he directed CSIS to alert the government from now on whenever it receives intelligence on threats to MPs or their families. “Moving forward, any threat, whether it’s serious or credible or not, to a Member of Parliament, or their family, particularly from foreign sources, needs to be elevated to higher levels than it was.” Etc…

Maybe he's just forgetful on what goes on in the briefings - not unlike Biden!

 

[pgs]

Maybe he's just forgetful on what goes on in the briefings - not unlike Biden!

Not forgetful , he simply doesn’t go . No time for that , why else have all those people in the office .

 

[Dixie Cup]

Not forgetful , he simply doesn’t go . No time for that , why else have all those people in the office .

Point taken.

 

[Ron in Regina]

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said that the threats by Beijing against Conservative MP Michael Chong and his family “never made it up to the political level” in his office two years ago.

Trudeau, speaking on the margins of the Liberal Party of Canada convention in Ottawa, did not manage to clear the air on the apparent contradiction between his own public statement and what his own national security adviser Jody Thomas privately shared with Chong on Thursday.

Trudeau says CSIS intelligence on threats against Chong 'never made it up to the political level' — National Post

Trudeau has since directed CSIS to inform him, moving forward, of any threat against an MP or their family

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In August 2019, two months before the 2019 federal election and two years before the 2021 election, which have both raised major concerns about foreign interference, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau received a report from the National Security and Intelligence Committee of Parliamentarians (NSICOP) that he created in 2017 to advise him on security issues.

GOLDSTEIN: The warnings about foreign interference — in 2019 — that Trudeau ignored — Toronto Sun

In August 2019, two months before the 2019 federal election and two years before the 2021 election, which have both raised major concerns about foreign interference, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau received a report from the National Security and Intelligence Committee of Parliamentarians (NSICOP)...

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OTTAWA – Conservative MP Michael Chong, whose family was targeted by the Chinese government according to a CSIS assessment, said staff in the Privy Council Office were made aware of the spy agency’s view two years ago, contrary to the prime minister’s claim that CSIS had kept that knowledge to itself.

On Thursday, Chong said that he had just been informed by Trudeau’s current national security adviser, Jody Thomas, that the CSIS assessment from July 20, 2021, was in fact sent to the national security adviser in the Privy Council Office, the prime minister’s government department, and all other relevant departments at the time. It allegedly contains information that Chong and a number of other MPs were targeted by China.

“This contradicts what the prime minister said yesterday,” said Chong. “Will the prime minister correct the record?”

Privy Council Office was aware of threats to MP and family, Chong says, despite Trudeau's claim — National Post

'This contradicts what the prime minister said yesterday. Will the prime minister correct the record?'

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[Ron in Regina]

For those keeping count, former governor general David Johnston has two weeks to go before he has to recommend whether Prime Minister Justin Trudeau should call a public inquiry into alleged interference by China in the last two federal elections.

His deadline for making that decision is Tuesday, May 23.

EDITORIAL: Foreign interference inquiry a necessity — Toronto Sun

For those keeping count, former governor general David Johnston has two weeks to go before he has to recommend whether Prime Minister Justin Trudeau should call a public inquiry into alleged interference by China in the last two federal elections. His deadline for making that decision is...

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It’s simply not believable that no one in the political apparatus on Parliament Hill knew about the report on Michael Chong and China’s threats.

For this to be believable would require the voting public to accept that both the highly skilled and highly paid bureaucrats and political staffers all failed to do their jobs.

On Wednesday, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau made the claim that the report that a Chinese diplomat posted to the consulate in Toronto was threatening Michael Chong never left CSIS. On Thursday, Chong informed the House of Commons that Trudeau’s own national security advisor said the report had been distributed.

Remember, we know Michael Chong’s name, but he is not the only MP that CSIS believes was being targeted by China’s diplomat in Toronto, Zhao Wei.

LILLEY: Trudeau's changing story on Chong simply not believable — Toronto Sun

PM wants us to believe that no one read a widely circulated report on China intimidating Canadian politicians and their families

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“The statement of fact is this: The prime minister first heard about this incident earlier this week when it was reported in the media, as did everybody else,” he said.

“The member from Wellington-Halton Hills actually had a defensive briefing on this two years ago, so he knew about this when it actually happened.”

Gerretsen then asked when Chong knew about the alleged harassment, questioning why he didn’t bring the issue to anybody’s attention before the media did.

Publicly casting doubt on Chong’s claims, Warkentin alleges, is the government saving face after a week of criticism from all sides.

“When (Public Safety Minister Marco) Mendicino was asked specifically to condemn the comments of the Liberals members, he refused to do that,” Warkentin explained.

“We saw this with Jody Wilson-Raybould, anytime that anyone has stood up to this prime minister — they attempt to discredit the victim, and victim blame.”

Liberals trying to save face by quietly discrediting Michael Chong, Conservatives say — National Post

'The plan of the Liberal Party is to push out this misinformation — this conspiracy theory — to discredit Chong and to exonerate the Prime Minister'

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OTTAWA — Former prime minister Jean Chrétien rallied Liberal troops, told war stories and dismissed recent reports of foreign interference at the party’s Ottawa convention Friday evening.

The current Liberal government has been dogged by questions of foreign interference for most of 2023, with allegations that China interfered in the 2021 election, channelled donations to the Trudeau Foundation and, most recently, allegations that China was threatening a Conservative MP’s family.

Former U.S. secretary of state Hillary Clinton was set to appear after Chrétien, and the former prime minister joked it was foreign interference.

“She’s an American meddling in Canadian politics,” he said. “We need a royal commission.”

Chrétien dismissed calls for a public inquiry.

Jean Chrétien dismisses foreign interference in Liberal convention speech — National Post

Chrétien also waded into partisan politics, calling Pierre Poilievre so extreme that he made former prime minister Stephen Harper seem reasonable

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[petros]

Lies. Lies and tyranny.

 

[Tecumsehsbones]

Lies. Lies and tyranny.

Call the WAAAAHmbulance.

 

[Ron in Regina]

Call the WAAAAHmbulance.

As long as WAAAAHmbulance is a synonym for a Public Inquiry then I’m all for it. His (Johnston’s) deadline for making that decision is Tuesday, May 23.

For those keeping count, former governor general David Johnston has two weeks to go before he has to recommend whether Prime Minister Justin Trudeau should call a public inquiry into alleged interference by China in the last two federal elections.

His deadline for making that decision is Tuesday, May 23.

EDITORIAL: Foreign interference inquiry a necessity — Toronto Sun

For those keeping count, former governor general David Johnston has two weeks to go before he has to recommend whether Prime Minister Justin Trudeau should call a public inquiry into alleged interference by China in the last two federal elections. His deadline for making that decision is...

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Johnston could, of course, announce his decision earlier, after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau appointed him on March 15, as his “independent special rapporteur” — translation, an advisor — on whether to hold a public inquiry.

Trudeau said if Johnston recommends an inquiry, he’ll create one. If Johnston does recommend an inquiry, the key issues will become what is its mandate and who will head it?

If a public inquiry ordered by the Liberal government is to have any credibility, the person who heads it must be appointed with the consent of the major opposition parties, not just a personal pick by Trudeau.

Yes there are now a bunch of “former” Trudeau Foundation Board Members with time on their hands, but Justin Trudeau has gone to that well twice too often already with Johnston & Rosenberg.

Canadian lawmaker says China targeted his family for harassment

Michael Chong accused Trudeau’s government of turning blind eye while Chinese diplomat gathered information in Canada

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[Taxslave2]

That could be a risky business as well. Some of those former board members may not be too happy about the loss of easy money and want to make turdOWE sweat.

 

[petros]

Call the WAAAAHmbulance.

Did you hurt yerself?