Rapporteur David Johnson, Eminent Canadian
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…but whatever happened with his personal fortune…shame it couldn’t have happened to the Canadian pension plan…but here we are.
Whatever happened…it doesn’t seem to currently be newsworthy, but it is interesting.
We'll fund out soon enough. The guy is a walking mistake.…but whatever happened with his personal fortune…shame it couldn’t have happened to the Canadian pension plan…but here we are.
Well, thankfully for him, his own personal finances where in that blind trust that he couldn’t influence or manipulate…& thus increased by 8000% or something like that while he was Prime Minister.
Anyway, this is just an aside, & the question was:
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Who is managing it on his behalf? That's probably the best place to start looking.
What Chinese agents and their surrogates were always attempting to do was ensure a handful or more of Beijing-friendly MPs ended up sitting in the caucus of the winning party.
Mission accomplished. China’s Communist government was never trying to rig the nationwide outcome of either the 2019 or 2021 elections. And anyone who was hoping the Commission on Foreign Interference led by Justice Marie-Josée Hogue was going to uncover a widespread plot to keep Justin Trudeau’s Liberals in office was always going to be unsatisfied.
Hogue asked in her 194-page report, released last Friday, “Was there foreign interference targeting the 2019 and 2021 general elections? Yes, I have no difficulty concluding that there was.”
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“People are right to be worried and to want to shine a light on what is going on,” Hogue wrote. The level of interference was “troubling,” even if it did not swing the whole of the election in favour of the Liberals.
And she concluded that while other foreign governments were actively interfering, too – notably Iran and India – China was far and away the most active.
In its conclusions, Hogue’s public inquiry was vastly more sensible than the two previous inquiries the Liberals put in place.
In February 2023, the committee of bureaucrats the Liberals had appointed to watch out for interference in the 2021 election concluded there was “no evidence to indicate foreign state actors” had meddled in the campaign.
And, of course, last May, former governor general and “special rapporteur,” David Johnston, a long-time Trudeau family friend, found there had been interference, but held cabinet entirely blameless. “I have not found examples of ministers, the Prime Minister or their offices knowingly ignoring intelligence, advice or recommendations on foreign interference or being driven by partisan considerations in dealing with these issues.”
One thing Hogue appears to have uncovered that has gone largely unsaid, even in her report, is that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau knew of the foreign interference early on in events (meaning before the 2019 election), but ignored or downplayed Chinese meddling solely to improve Liberal election chances. The rest at the above link…
Mission accomplished. China’s Communist government was never trying to rig the nationwide outcome of either the 2019 or 2021 elections. And anyone who was hoping the Commission on Foreign Interference led by Justice Marie-Josée Hogue was going to uncover a widespread plot to keep Justin Trudeau’s Liberals in office was always going to be unsatisfied.
Hogue asked in her 194-page report, released last Friday, “Was there foreign interference targeting the 2019 and 2021 general elections? Yes, I have no difficulty concluding that there was.”
GUNTER: End goal on interference was Beijing friendly MPs — Toronto Sun
China’s Communist government was never trying to rig the nationwide outcome of either the 2019 or 2021 elections. And anyone who was hoping the Commission on Foreign Interference led by Justice Marie-Josée Hogue was going to uncover a widespread plot to keep Justin Trudeau’s Liberals in office...
And she concluded that while other foreign governments were actively interfering, too – notably Iran and India – China was far and away the most active.
In its conclusions, Hogue’s public inquiry was vastly more sensible than the two previous inquiries the Liberals put in place.
In February 2023, the committee of bureaucrats the Liberals had appointed to watch out for interference in the 2021 election concluded there was “no evidence to indicate foreign state actors” had meddled in the campaign.
And, of course, last May, former governor general and “special rapporteur,” David Johnston, a long-time Trudeau family friend, found there had been interference, but held cabinet entirely blameless. “I have not found examples of ministers, the Prime Minister or their offices knowingly ignoring intelligence, advice or recommendations on foreign interference or being driven by partisan considerations in dealing with these issues.”
One thing Hogue appears to have uncovered that has gone largely unsaid, even in her report, is that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau knew of the foreign interference early on in events (meaning before the 2019 election), but ignored or downplayed Chinese meddling solely to improve Liberal election chances. The rest at the above link…
The public inquiry into foreign interference in Canada has already established that China tried to meddle in the last two general election campaigns. That’s no longer a question of did they, but a fact that they did.
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But, if a new report into the funding of the anti-Israel movement in North America is to be believed, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is also linked to the wave of protests that are disrupting cities and campuses across the continent.
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The National Contagion Research Institute, an independent body that identifies cyber threats to civil society, says that a number of left-wing organizations that have united under the Shut It Down for Palestine (SID4P) banner are linked to Beijing through Communist Party associates, Neville Roy Singham and his wife, Jodie Evans.
It concluded that organizations operating under the SID4P umbrella are members of the “Singham network” donor program, which is widely considered to be a conduit for CCP geopolitical influence. Anyway, above link, etc…
“Useful Idiots of the world Unite!!”
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John Ivison: China’s alleged links to Canadian anti-Israel protests fit a subversive pattern — National Post
The democratic principles of Canadians are being exploited by people who want to dismantle them
It concluded that organizations operating under the SID4P umbrella are members of the “Singham network” donor program, which is widely considered to be a conduit for CCP geopolitical influence. Anyway, above link, etc…
“Useful Idiots of the world Unite!!”
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Report Links CCP to Anti-Israel Protests | China in Focus
More anti-Israel demonstrations take place at a California university. But is the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) lurking in the shadows? A new report sheds light on the CCP's role in the unrest. Leveling the playing field with Beijing, the Biden administration is imposing tariffs on certain kinds of solar panels imported from China. A House hearing explores the growing cyber threat posed by communist China, from state-backed hacking to stealing advanced U.S. technology. President Joe Biden will dispatch a special delegation to Taiwan as its new president takes office. The group consists of former U.S. officials and will visit Taipei "to represent the American people."
The Liberal government is facing pushback from Justice Marie-Josée Hogue for citing cabinet confidentiality in redacting records provided to the public inquiry investigating meddling by China and other hostile states in Canadian democracy.
The government is also completely withholding an undisclosed number of cabinet documents, according to the Privy Council Office (PCO), which reports directly to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
Public Safety Minister Dominic LeBlanc had initially promised that the Commission into Foreign Interference would have full access to secret documents, including “all relevant cabinet documents” even if some of that sensitive information can’t be made available to Canadians.
But a dispute has arisen after the government invoked cabinet confidence to redact some cabinet records and to deny the Hogue inquiry access to an unknown number of documents involving foreign interference.
Buried in a footnote in Justice Hogue’s May 3 report, she said there were redactions in some of the cabinet documents handed over to the inquiry and added “discussions as to the applications of these privileges is ongoing.”
Michael Tansey, senior communication adviser to the commission, said Wednesday that Justice Hogue had no further comment.
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“In light of the ongoing discussions with the government on document production, the commission has nothing to add at this time,” he said.
The PCO told The Globe and Mail that nearly 10 per cent of cabinet documents provided to the inquiry have been redacted. An undisclosed number of other secret cabinet documents have been completely withheld.
Pierre-Alain Bujold, manager of media relations at the PCO, did not say how many cabinet documents have been held back. But he said the commission has been given access to “relevant information” about what the cabinet knew concerning foreign interference in the 2019 and 2021 elections.
“As of May 17, 2024, approximately 9% of the 33,000 documents provided by the government contain one or more redactions. Other documents covered entirely by these exemptions have not been provided to the commission,” Mr. Bujold said in an e-mail to The Globe, which requested information on what documents have been withheld.
“Discussions about document collection, production and appropriate disclosure have been, and remain ongoing,” he said.
Dan Stanton, a former manager at the Canadian Security Intelligence Service and now director of the national-security program at the University of Ottawa’s Professional Development Institute, said Justice Hogue has the security clearance to see every item of classified intelligence including cabinet records.
“If things are withheld from the commissioner, then that calls into question the effectiveness of the inquiry,” he said. “The commissioner should be seeing everything, regardless of what is disclosed to the public. Otherwise, how can it be assessed?”
Mr. Bujold said the inquiry has broad access to classified and unclassified documents but information subject to solicitor-client privilege or information that is a cabinet confidence have been withheld.
Asked to explain the reasoning behind the move, Mr. Bujold said, “Cabinet confidentiality is a cornerstone of the Westminster system of government that is protected by convention, common law, and legislative provisions. It is critical to allowing cabinet to carry out its mandate effectively.”
Section 39 of the Canada Evidence Act safeguards cabinet confidentiality, a long-standing principle, upheld by the courts, to protect collective decision-making by ministers.
The confidentiality exceptions are cabinet documents that the government authorized for disclosure to the National Security and Intelligence Committee of Parliamentarians and the National Security and Intelligence Review Agency. This followed a recommendation from former governor-general David Johnston before he resigned as independent special rapporteur on foreign interference.
Justice Hogue resumes public hearings in the fall and will submit a second and final report on recommendations to combat foreign interference at the end of December.
In her first report, on May 3, Justice Hogue concluded that foreign interference in 2019 and 2021 undermined the right of Canadian voters to have an electoral process “free from coercion or covert influence” and may have affected results in a small number of ridings.
While foreign meddling did not alter the overall outcome of the two elections, she issued a call to action for the government to vigorously enact measures to tackle this “malign” threat to Canadian democracy.
She identified China as the “most persistent and sophisticated foreign-interference threat to Canada” at the moment.
The government is also completely withholding an undisclosed number of cabinet documents, according to the Privy Council Office (PCO), which reports directly to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
Public Safety Minister Dominic LeBlanc had initially promised that the Commission into Foreign Interference would have full access to secret documents, including “all relevant cabinet documents” even if some of that sensitive information can’t be made available to Canadians.
But a dispute has arisen after the government invoked cabinet confidence to redact some cabinet records and to deny the Hogue inquiry access to an unknown number of documents involving foreign interference.
Buried in a footnote in Justice Hogue’s May 3 report, she said there were redactions in some of the cabinet documents handed over to the inquiry and added “discussions as to the applications of these privileges is ongoing.”
Michael Tansey, senior communication adviser to the commission, said Wednesday that Justice Hogue had no further comment.
Trudeau cabinet withholding documents on foreign interference from inquiry — The Globe and Mail
Public Safety Minister Dominic LeBlanc initially promised the commission would have full access to secret records
The PCO told The Globe and Mail that nearly 10 per cent of cabinet documents provided to the inquiry have been redacted. An undisclosed number of other secret cabinet documents have been completely withheld.
Pierre-Alain Bujold, manager of media relations at the PCO, did not say how many cabinet documents have been held back. But he said the commission has been given access to “relevant information” about what the cabinet knew concerning foreign interference in the 2019 and 2021 elections.
“As of May 17, 2024, approximately 9% of the 33,000 documents provided by the government contain one or more redactions. Other documents covered entirely by these exemptions have not been provided to the commission,” Mr. Bujold said in an e-mail to The Globe, which requested information on what documents have been withheld.
“Discussions about document collection, production and appropriate disclosure have been, and remain ongoing,” he said.
Dan Stanton, a former manager at the Canadian Security Intelligence Service and now director of the national-security program at the University of Ottawa’s Professional Development Institute, said Justice Hogue has the security clearance to see every item of classified intelligence including cabinet records.
“If things are withheld from the commissioner, then that calls into question the effectiveness of the inquiry,” he said. “The commissioner should be seeing everything, regardless of what is disclosed to the public. Otherwise, how can it be assessed?”
Mr. Bujold said the inquiry has broad access to classified and unclassified documents but information subject to solicitor-client privilege or information that is a cabinet confidence have been withheld.
Asked to explain the reasoning behind the move, Mr. Bujold said, “Cabinet confidentiality is a cornerstone of the Westminster system of government that is protected by convention, common law, and legislative provisions. It is critical to allowing cabinet to carry out its mandate effectively.”
Section 39 of the Canada Evidence Act safeguards cabinet confidentiality, a long-standing principle, upheld by the courts, to protect collective decision-making by ministers.
The confidentiality exceptions are cabinet documents that the government authorized for disclosure to the National Security and Intelligence Committee of Parliamentarians and the National Security and Intelligence Review Agency. This followed a recommendation from former governor-general David Johnston before he resigned as independent special rapporteur on foreign interference.
Justice Hogue resumes public hearings in the fall and will submit a second and final report on recommendations to combat foreign interference at the end of December.
In her first report, on May 3, Justice Hogue concluded that foreign interference in 2019 and 2021 undermined the right of Canadian voters to have an electoral process “free from coercion or covert influence” and may have affected results in a small number of ridings.
While foreign meddling did not alter the overall outcome of the two elections, she issued a call to action for the government to vigorously enact measures to tackle this “malign” threat to Canadian democracy.
She identified China as the “most persistent and sophisticated foreign-interference threat to Canada” at the moment.
Cancel Trudeau!The Liberal government is facing pushback from Justice Marie-Josée Hogue for citing cabinet confidentiality in redacting records provided to the public inquiry investigating meddling by China and other hostile states in Canadian democracy.
The government is also completely withholding an undisclosed number of cabinet documents, according to the Privy Council Office (PCO), which reports directly to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
Public Safety Minister Dominic LeBlanc had initially promised that the Commission into Foreign Interference would have full access to secret documents, including “all relevant cabinet documents” even if some of that sensitive information can’t be made available to Canadians.
But a dispute has arisen after the government invoked cabinet confidence to redact some cabinet records and to deny the Hogue inquiry access to an unknown number of documents involving foreign interference.
Buried in a footnote in Justice Hogue’s May 3 report, she said there were redactions in some of the cabinet documents handed over to the inquiry and added “discussions as to the applications of these privileges is ongoing.”
Michael Tansey, senior communication adviser to the commission, said Wednesday that Justice Hogue had no further comment.
“In light of the ongoing discussions with the government on document production, the commission has nothing to add at this time,” he said.Trudeau cabinet withholding documents on foreign interference from inquiry — The Globe and Mail
Public Safety Minister Dominic LeBlanc initially promised the commission would have full access to secret records
The PCO told The Globe and Mail that nearly 10 per cent of cabinet documents provided to the inquiry have been redacted. An undisclosed number of other secret cabinet documents have been completely withheld.
Pierre-Alain Bujold, manager of media relations at the PCO, did not say how many cabinet documents have been held back. But he said the commission has been given access to “relevant information” about what the cabinet knew concerning foreign interference in the 2019 and 2021 elections.
“As of May 17, 2024, approximately 9% of the 33,000 documents provided by the government contain one or more redactions. Other documents covered entirely by these exemptions have not been provided to the commission,” Mr. Bujold said in an e-mail to The Globe, which requested information on what documents have been withheld.
“Discussions about document collection, production and appropriate disclosure have been, and remain ongoing,” he said.
Dan Stanton, a former manager at the Canadian Security Intelligence Service and now director of the national-security program at the University of Ottawa’s Professional Development Institute, said Justice Hogue has the security clearance to see every item of classified intelligence including cabinet records.
“If things are withheld from the commissioner, then that calls into question the effectiveness of the inquiry,” he said. “The commissioner should be seeing everything, regardless of what is disclosed to the public. Otherwise, how can it be assessed?”
Mr. Bujold said the inquiry has broad access to classified and unclassified documents but information subject to solicitor-client privilege or information that is a cabinet confidence have been withheld.
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Asked to explain the reasoning behind the move, Mr. Bujold said, “Cabinet confidentiality is a cornerstone of the Westminster system of government that is protected by convention, common law, and legislative provisions. It is critical to allowing cabinet to carry out its mandate effectively.”
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Section 39 of the Canada Evidence Act safeguards cabinet confidentiality, a long-standing principle, upheld by the courts, to protect collective decision-making by ministers.
The confidentiality exceptions are cabinet documents that the government authorized for disclosure to the National Security and Intelligence Committee of Parliamentarians and the National Security and Intelligence Review Agency. This followed a recommendation from former governor-general David Johnston before he resigned as independent special rapporteur on foreign interference.
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Justice Hogue resumes public hearings in the fall and will submit a second and final report on recommendations to combat foreign interference at the end of December.
In her first report, on May 3, Justice Hogue concluded that foreign interference in 2019 and 2021 undermined the right of Canadian voters to have an electoral process “free from coercion or covert influence” and may have affected results in a small number of ridings.
While foreign meddling did not alter the overall outcome of the two elections, she issued a call to action for the government to vigorously enact measures to tackle this “malign” threat to Canadian democracy.
She identified China as the “most persistent and sophisticated foreign-interference threat to Canada” at the moment.
The Conservatives and Bloc Québécois have forced a meeting of a House of Commons committee to investigate the Liberal government’s refusal to turn over all cabinet documents on foreign interference to a public inquiry into foreign meddling in Canadian democracy.
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Conservatives, Bloc Québécois force meeting to investigate Liberals’ refusal to share foreign interference documents with public inquiry — The Globe and Mai
Ottawa is facing pushback for citing cabinet confidentiality in redacting records provided to the public inquiry investigating interference by China and other hostile states in the 2019 and 2021 elections
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Conservatives, Bloc Québécois force meeting to investigate Liberals’ refusal to share foreign interference documents with public inquiry — The Globe and Mai
Ottawa is facing pushback for citing cabinet confidentiality in redacting records provided to the public inquiry investigating interference by China and other hostile states in the 2019 and 2021 elections
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Conservatives, Bloc investigating Ottawa’s refusal to share foreign-interference documents — The Globe and Mail
Ottawa is facing pushback for citing cabinet confidentiality in redacting records provided to the public inquiry investigating interference by China and other hostile states in the 2019 and 2021 elections
Before…during…after…eventually…yesterday…etc…I hear you.
A clandestine intervention in Canada’s elections is not exactly “interference” if it’s solicited, invited and welcomed, and it’s not precisely “foreign” if the culprits are willing Canadian operatives and proxies in foreign-directed influence campaigns.
This appears to have been the case, NSICOP concludes, in several obliquely-described instances gleaned almost entirely from top-secret reports by the Canadian Security Intelligence Service.
There’s always the Conflict of Interest and Ethics Commissioner and the Senate Ethics Officer that could help Parliamentarians figure out how to reduce their exposure to the shadowy maneuvers of hostile foreign powers, the report observes. But these resources will only work against unwelcome advances.
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“Unfortunately, the Committee has also seen troubling intelligence that some Parliamentarians are, in the words of the intelligence services, “semi-witting or witting” participants in the efforts of foreign states to interfere in our politics.”
This is not just about China’s vast United Front Work Department, which by strong-arming and influence-peddling has burrowed deeply into ethnic Chinese political activism, the media, the universities and Canada’s political parties, most notably the Liberal Party. Beijing has also disrupted Conservative party leadership races, the report notes (the United Front was especially determined to unseat Erin O’Toole from the Conservative leadership two years ago).
The LINK is worth a read through…
The problem is, going back five years, the awkwardly-constituted NSICOP, with a secretariat of only 11 people, has produced absurdly redacted yet otherwise consistently rock-solid research and findings about threats to Canada’s national security. Each report has presented sensible conclusions and recommendations that Justin Trudeau’s government has variously ignored, overlooked, put off or bungled. In its annual report released last year, NSICOP noted that the Trudeau government had failed to even respond to a succession of seven of its reports on “critical issues in the security and intelligence community.”
This latest, titled Special Report on Foreign Interference in Canada’s Democratic Processes and Institutions, is the most alarming of the lot. It’s a dreary enumeration of profound ethical and possibly criminal transgressions committed by Canada’s senior politicians, mostly but not exclusively by the governing Liberals. It’s by no means certain that NSICOP had the Liberals in mind in its reference to MPs who have “worked to influence their colleagues on India’s behalf and proactively provided confidential information to Indian officials.”
Like the documents released during the course of Madam Justice Hogue’s hearings in the foreign interference commission proceedings earlier this year, much of the NSICOP report vindicates news reports based on CSIS leaks about Beijing’s monkey-wrenching during the 2019 and 2021 federal elections — reports the Trudeau government was all too willing to dismiss before the evidence became too overpowering to ignore….
This appears to have been the case, NSICOP concludes, in several obliquely-described instances gleaned almost entirely from top-secret reports by the Canadian Security Intelligence Service.
There’s always the Conflict of Interest and Ethics Commissioner and the Senate Ethics Officer that could help Parliamentarians figure out how to reduce their exposure to the shadowy maneuvers of hostile foreign powers, the report observes. But these resources will only work against unwelcome advances.
Terry Glavin: It isn't 'foreign interference' if the culprits are willing MPs — National Post
Senior politicians are colluding with China or India — this is beyond scandalous
This is not just about China’s vast United Front Work Department, which by strong-arming and influence-peddling has burrowed deeply into ethnic Chinese political activism, the media, the universities and Canada’s political parties, most notably the Liberal Party. Beijing has also disrupted Conservative party leadership races, the report notes (the United Front was especially determined to unseat Erin O’Toole from the Conservative leadership two years ago).
The LINK is worth a read through…
The problem is, going back five years, the awkwardly-constituted NSICOP, with a secretariat of only 11 people, has produced absurdly redacted yet otherwise consistently rock-solid research and findings about threats to Canada’s national security. Each report has presented sensible conclusions and recommendations that Justin Trudeau’s government has variously ignored, overlooked, put off or bungled. In its annual report released last year, NSICOP noted that the Trudeau government had failed to even respond to a succession of seven of its reports on “critical issues in the security and intelligence community.”
This latest, titled Special Report on Foreign Interference in Canada’s Democratic Processes and Institutions, is the most alarming of the lot. It’s a dreary enumeration of profound ethical and possibly criminal transgressions committed by Canada’s senior politicians, mostly but not exclusively by the governing Liberals. It’s by no means certain that NSICOP had the Liberals in mind in its reference to MPs who have “worked to influence their colleagues on India’s behalf and proactively provided confidential information to Indian officials.”
Like the documents released during the course of Madam Justice Hogue’s hearings in the foreign interference commission proceedings earlier this year, much of the NSICOP report vindicates news reports based on CSIS leaks about Beijing’s monkey-wrenching during the 2019 and 2021 federal elections — reports the Trudeau government was all too willing to dismiss before the evidence became too overpowering to ignore….
“The Committee rejects any notion that the individual or individuals responsible for the leaks acted as patriots or whistleblowers,” the NSICOP report states. “On the other hand, the Committee acknowledges an uncomfortable truth. Prior to the leaks, there was little sense of urgency between elected officials and senior decision-makers to address outstanding gaps to this important and well-documented threat to national security.”
The CSIS leaks, which began appearing in Global News, the Globe and Mail and other mainstream news media in November, 2022, were “the principal catalyst for the government to start considering key legislative reforms and to take meaningful actions against particular states.”
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The CSIS leaks, which began appearing in Global News, the Globe and Mail and other mainstream news media in November, 2022, were “the principal catalyst for the government to start considering key legislative reforms and to take meaningful actions against particular states.”
Terry Glavin: It isn't 'foreign interference' if the culprits are willing MPs — National Post
Senior politicians are colluding with China or India — this is beyond scandalous
…conduct that one expert says could amount to treason.
But….will they potentially receive up to a maximum of a $500 fine for an “ethics” violation???
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That raises the question of whether the voting public will know who's alleged to have engaged in such conduct before the next federal election, which is expected sometime in 2025. Oh well….
The names of the alleged parliamentary conspirators are blanked out in the report. They've been replaced with the words, "This paragraph was revised to remove injurious or privileged information."
Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland told reporters Tuesday the government takes the threat of foreign political interference "very seriously" and said the country can't be "naive" about authoritarian governments seeking to undermine our democracy.
When asked if she could guarantee that the Liberals will eject from their caucus any parliamentarian found to have engaged in the activities cited in the report, Freeland would not make that commitment. "The guarantee I can give to Canadians is our government takes foreign interference very, very seriously," she said.
Under the law that governs NSICOP, the prime minister can direct the committee to submit a "revised version" of any of its reports that leaves out information that could be seen as "injurious" to national security, defence and international relations, or that is protected by solicitor-client privilege.
The committee wrote in its report that, after submitting the initial draft version of this study to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in March, some information "which the prime minister believed would be injurious" was stripped out of the report released to the public.
'Textbook treason'
China, India allegedly interfered in Conservative leadership races: report
Some MPs helping foreign actors like China and India meddle in Canadian politics: report
Government won't commit to releasing names of MPs who allegedly conspired with foreign actors
(…& they’ll get Uncle David Johnson to RapaNui it…)
Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland said the Liberal Party will conduct an internal follow-up after a watchdog’s report said some parliamentarians are wittingly aiding foreign interference, but the government offered few indications any effort will be made to name or prosecute these individuals.
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Public Safety Minister Dominic LeBlanc declined to even comment specifically on the revelations in the report. He was repeatedly asked Tuesday whether the government would ensure those parliamentarians colluding with foreign governments would be identified or face charges. Mr. LeBlanc said Canadians should trust authorities are working hard…but he didn’t clarify if it was the Chinese or Indian authorities that are working hard on this…
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Freeland said it’s incumbent on her political party, the Liberals, to conduct an “internal” review. “It must be a question of national interest, of national security, and for me and for us, obviously as a political party, we must and we will follow this up internally.”
But….will they potentially receive up to a maximum of a $500 fine for an “ethics” violation???
Government won't commit to releasing names of MPs who allegedly conspired with foreign actors — CBC News
Senior cabinet ministers wouldn't say Tuesday if the government is prepared to release the names of parliamentarians who are alleged to have conspired with foreign governments and to have consciously shared sensitive information with their agents — conduct that one expert says could amount to...
The names of the alleged parliamentary conspirators are blanked out in the report. They've been replaced with the words, "This paragraph was revised to remove injurious or privileged information."
When asked if she could guarantee that the Liberals will eject from their caucus any parliamentarian found to have engaged in the activities cited in the report, Freeland would not make that commitment. "The guarantee I can give to Canadians is our government takes foreign interference very, very seriously," she said.
The committee wrote in its report that, after submitting the initial draft version of this study to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in March, some information "which the prime minister believed would be injurious" was stripped out of the report released to the public.
'Textbook treason'
China, India allegedly interfered in Conservative leadership races: report
Some MPs helping foreign actors like China and India meddle in Canadian politics: report
Government won't commit to releasing names of MPs who allegedly conspired with foreign actors
(…& they’ll get Uncle David Johnson to RapaNui it…)
Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland said the Liberal Party will conduct an internal follow-up after a watchdog’s report said some parliamentarians are wittingly aiding foreign interference, but the government offered few indications any effort will be made to name or prosecute these individuals.
Freeland vows review into alleged collusion with foreign actors by parliamentarians — The Globe and Mail
Deputy PM unwilling to commit to removing Liberal MPs if they were found to have been involved in foreign interference
EDITORIAL: Security report alleges treason by some politicians — Toronto Sun
A report by an all-party committee of parliamentarians created by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau alleges unnamed federal politicians have committed treason against Canada by working with foreign powers to further their own financial and political interests. Alarmingly, it says that while they are...
The report doesn’t say who these MPs are, so expect the House of Commons to get more awkward than usual in the coming weeks.
It was only a year ago that former Governor General David Johnston (who had access to many of the same materials as NSICOP) was declaring that foreign interference was being overblown by the media and didn’t need an official inquiry.
It was only a year ago that former Governor General David Johnston (who had access to many of the same materials as NSICOP) was declaring that foreign interference was being overblown by the media and didn’t need an official inquiry.
Canada used to hang traitors, not run cover for them
Author of the article:Brad Hunter
Published Jun 04, 2024 • Last updated 1 day ago • 3 minute read
Once upon a time, we weren’t wimps.
If you did this country wrong — betrayed Canada or your fellow citizens in any way — you could very well find yourself swinging at the end of a rope.
Now, the feds run cover for those accused of treason. People who allegedly “wittingly” betrayed their country get anonymity.
The National Security and Intelligence Committee of Parliamentarians (NSICOP) — a multi-party group made up of MPs and senators with top security clearances — unveiled a shocking report on Monday.
Some unnamed politicians have worked to undermine Canada to the benefit of foreign power players (hello, China!) and themselves. The Liberal government of Justin Trudeau seems, well, hesitant to release the names of those who allegedly shared top-secret info with our enemies.
This is treason.
Nothing less.
On Aug. 27, 1947, Kanao Inouye — aka The Kamloops Kid — discovered that this country would treat betrayal with violence.
Inouye had been born and raised in the B.C. interior before moving to Japan in 1938 for a post-secondary education. By 1942, he was in the Imperial Japanese Army, first as an interpreter and guard and then, as a torturer for the secret police or Kempetai.
If you have ever spoken to a Canadian veteran who fought in Hong Kong or the Far East, their hatred remains visceral.
At Sham Shui Po Prison in Hong Kong with its hundreds of Canadian prisoners, Inouye developed a proficiency for torment and torture, beating his fellow Canadians gleefully at random.
He told the battered Canadian soldiers: “When I was in Canada, I took all kinds of abuse. … They called me a ‘little yellow bastard’. Now where is your so-called superiority, you dirty scum?”
For many, the worst was yet to come.
For many, the worst was yet to come.
With the Kempetai, he fine-tuned his torture skills on Canadian military personnel, suspected spies and civilians.
Rifleman William Allister called him “a monster, driven mad with hate for all things white. His craving for vengeance was awesome.”
By the end of the war, the Canadians and other allied prisoners were walking cadavers, starved into submission. But the Kamloops Kid didn’t get far and was arrested in Kowloon after former Canadian POWs spotted him.
At his trial, it emerged he used water torture and burned men with cigarettes in a sadistic orgy of evil. Others were beaten with a dog whip.
In the Hong Kong courtroom in 1947, Inouye’s victims glared at him with “vehement hatred.” He was responsible for the deaths of eight Canadians.
“Some of these acts involved such wanton and barbarous cruelty that it was a mere accident of fate whether the victims survived or not,” prosecutor Lieut. Col. J.C. Stewart sneered at Inouye, calling his actions “an outrage against humanity.”
The final word from the Kamloops Kid was “Banzai!”
In 2024, our elected officials, who may have cost Canadian lives and inflicted a body blow on our democracy, have no fear of the long drop. Traitors, killers and other low-lives don’t have to fear very much.
According to Monday’s report, those allegedly compromised MPs also tried to “improperly influence parliamentary colleagues” to benefit foreign entities.
This is treason.
But Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland said Tuesday that while the government takes the threat of foreign political interference “very seriously,” she wouldn’t commit to even booting potential Liberal wrongdoers from the caucus.
Public Safety Minister Dominic LeBlanc fretted: “I think as a matter of principle, it’s unwise to speak about specific elements that may involve individuals.”
If proven, these actions are treasonous.
Once upon a time, we knew that. Just ask the Kamloops Kid.
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Author of the article:Brad Hunter
Published Jun 04, 2024 • Last updated 1 day ago • 3 minute read
Once upon a time, we weren’t wimps.
If you did this country wrong — betrayed Canada or your fellow citizens in any way — you could very well find yourself swinging at the end of a rope.
Now, the feds run cover for those accused of treason. People who allegedly “wittingly” betrayed their country get anonymity.
The National Security and Intelligence Committee of Parliamentarians (NSICOP) — a multi-party group made up of MPs and senators with top security clearances — unveiled a shocking report on Monday.
Some unnamed politicians have worked to undermine Canada to the benefit of foreign power players (hello, China!) and themselves. The Liberal government of Justin Trudeau seems, well, hesitant to release the names of those who allegedly shared top-secret info with our enemies.
This is treason.
Nothing less.
On Aug. 27, 1947, Kanao Inouye — aka The Kamloops Kid — discovered that this country would treat betrayal with violence.
Inouye had been born and raised in the B.C. interior before moving to Japan in 1938 for a post-secondary education. By 1942, he was in the Imperial Japanese Army, first as an interpreter and guard and then, as a torturer for the secret police or Kempetai.
If you have ever spoken to a Canadian veteran who fought in Hong Kong or the Far East, their hatred remains visceral.
At Sham Shui Po Prison in Hong Kong with its hundreds of Canadian prisoners, Inouye developed a proficiency for torment and torture, beating his fellow Canadians gleefully at random.
He told the battered Canadian soldiers: “When I was in Canada, I took all kinds of abuse. … They called me a ‘little yellow bastard’. Now where is your so-called superiority, you dirty scum?”
For many, the worst was yet to come.
For many, the worst was yet to come.
With the Kempetai, he fine-tuned his torture skills on Canadian military personnel, suspected spies and civilians.
Rifleman William Allister called him “a monster, driven mad with hate for all things white. His craving for vengeance was awesome.”
By the end of the war, the Canadians and other allied prisoners were walking cadavers, starved into submission. But the Kamloops Kid didn’t get far and was arrested in Kowloon after former Canadian POWs spotted him.
At his trial, it emerged he used water torture and burned men with cigarettes in a sadistic orgy of evil. Others were beaten with a dog whip.
In the Hong Kong courtroom in 1947, Inouye’s victims glared at him with “vehement hatred.” He was responsible for the deaths of eight Canadians.
“Some of these acts involved such wanton and barbarous cruelty that it was a mere accident of fate whether the victims survived or not,” prosecutor Lieut. Col. J.C. Stewart sneered at Inouye, calling his actions “an outrage against humanity.”
The final word from the Kamloops Kid was “Banzai!”
In 2024, our elected officials, who may have cost Canadian lives and inflicted a body blow on our democracy, have no fear of the long drop. Traitors, killers and other low-lives don’t have to fear very much.
According to Monday’s report, those allegedly compromised MPs also tried to “improperly influence parliamentary colleagues” to benefit foreign entities.
This is treason.
But Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland said Tuesday that while the government takes the threat of foreign political interference “very seriously,” she wouldn’t commit to even booting potential Liberal wrongdoers from the caucus.
Public Safety Minister Dominic LeBlanc fretted: “I think as a matter of principle, it’s unwise to speak about specific elements that may involve individuals.”
If proven, these actions are treasonous.
Once upon a time, we knew that. Just ask the Kamloops Kid.
bhunter@postmedia.com
@HunterTOSun
HUNTER: Canada used to hang traitors, not run cover for them
Once upon a time, we weren't wimps.