Chairman Xi, president of Communist China, by the ministrations and covert influencing of his abundant agents and money, did not — repeat, did not — affect the overall — repeat, overall — results of a couple of federal Canadian elections.
Paid volunteers, laundered donations and a couple dozen questionable social media posts
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Among other authorities, the sage panel of CBC’s Power & Politics, with special guest Amanda (close friend of, and receiver of contracts from, Liberal cabinet minister Mary Ng) Alvaro concluded just that in an edition of that illustrious oracle this week. There is no deeper well from which to draw the waters of political insight than some CBC panel shows.
Alvaro’s is just the voice, and her voice is just the channel, for making assessments of Chinese government interference into the integrity of elections that produced Liberal governments. Some of her closest contract-awarding friends are members of that Liberal government.
There have been too many occasions when the PM has said one thing and events have subsequently proven him to have been economical with the truth
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Back to the main point. Whatever Xi Jinping was attempting, he did not obtain through his wickedness and wiles the stated result. The minority Liberal government came about because of other factors, other reasons.
Therefore, as Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has stated, our elections retained their integrity. Overall, all was fine. A few districts may have fallen to “outside” interference, but the full game was clear and clean. Overall, all was fine.
But Prime Minister Justin Trudeau continues to pretend there is no issue
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Yea, Canadian democracy. Are there not balloons to release (or shoot down) and fireworks to let off?
Now, there may have been a few ridings that got bent. A few particular contests that got twisted. There may be some MPs in Parliament who would not be in Parliament without the Communist Chinese government’s “meddling” (this is the Canadian government’s own soft word for foreign interference from the largest dictatorship on the globe). But this is trivial stuff. Who cares? A meddle is a nothing-burger.
Chinese authorities were involved in Canadians’ electoral choices. That should never happen
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And if a prime minister, or a conflict-of-interest recipient on a CBC panel, is at pains to tell you that because the “overall” election retained its “integrity” when 11 districts with large Chinese-Canadian populations were targeted to help the Liberals and hurt the Tories, well, I think Mr. Trudeau, and perhaps even a Liberal-party contract-receiving handmaiden (Margaret Atwood’s term) might choose a stronger term than “meddling.”
An 8-month investigation by Global News shows CSIS is investigating a Chinese Communist Party election-interference scheme allegedly directed by the Chinese consulate in Toronto.
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We would expect a far more vociferous condemnation than we have heard from either the windmill himself, or the blade of subsidized grass beneath. In more familiar terms, from the organ grinder of the dancing simian.
Chinese authorities were involved in Canadians’ electoral choices. That should never happen. To question that attempt at subverting Canadians in their democratic choice is not “Trump-type” politics, despite what one
Liberal MP said. That’s a fool’s evasion. No vote anywhere, in any riding, in any province, should be influenced or twisted by any outside power — ever — to any large or small effect for any reason.
China's interference didn't sway the outcome, but Liberals dismiss anyone who asks questions as using 'Trump-style' tactics
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We should not allow even “bits” of our country to be messed with in its most fundamental democratic exercise. Every riding deserves a just election.
And for any government apologist to use the battering-ram phrase of “Trump-type tactics” to excuse the Liberal government’s slackness, lack of diligence, and its blasé response — “Hey, the overall result was good” — is, and I choose this word, despicable.
(Merriam-Webster: Despicable: deserving to be despised; so worthless or obnoxious as to rouse moral indignation)