A haven for terror proxies, police-state goons.

That's Canada for you. It's going to be a busy week.

Don’t worry. Our officials will look into it.

The Liberal Party will be holding its national convention in Ottawa this week. While we’re all supposed to be excited by the presence of U.S. Democratic Party fixture Hillary Clinton at the shindig, the party brass is having conniptions about a rank-and-file youth insurrection nobody’s supposed to know about.

It’s calling itself the MayDay Movement, and it strikes me as pretty boring, but maybe not entirely. The fun bit: Party president Suzanne Cowan has ordered an investigation to find out who among the party’s board of directors leaked details of its consideration (i.e. its rejection) of the MayDay Movement’s proposed policy resolutions, which touch on affordable housing, post-secondary education, climate change, “modernization and expansion of the immigration system,” digital ID, online voting, and cool-kids concerns of the that kind.

Nothing about how vast sections of the Team Trudeau party’s fundraising and candidate-selection base have become indistinguishable from the Canadian arms of Beijing’s United Front Work Department and its Overseas Chinese Affairs Office, but that’s not the sort of thing Trudeau’s Liberals will want to talk about openly.

The big story this week is about another report from the Canadian Security and Intelligence Service that Bob Fife and Steve Chase got a hold of over at the Globe: China views Canada as a ‘high priority’ for interference: CSIS report. It’s a damning indictment of the Trudeau Liberals’ purposeful indifference to Beijing’s palm-greasing and strong-arming operations in Canada (which, strangely, are almost always put to the benefit of the Trudeau government).

The bombshell in the Fife-Chase story involves the Conservative MP Michael Chong, a stalwart defender of Chinese pro-democracy activists and the Hong Kong diaspora in Canada who has also backed stern measures responding to Beijing’s industrial-scale persecution and internment of the minority Muslim Uyghur people of of Xinjiang.

The difference between the People’s Liberation Army and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine: A bigger budget.

The nine-page CSIS report, dated July 20, 2021, notes that a Chinese Ministry of State Security official credentialled as a Chinese diplomat in Canada had sought to put pressure on an unnamed Canadian MP’s relatives “who may be located in the PRC, for further potential sanctions.” The CSIS report said this was “almost certainly meant to make an example of this MP and deter others from taking anti-PRC positions.”

Chong has been sanctioned by Beijing, and Chong has family in Hong Kong, and a national security source confirmed that the unnamed MP in the report is indeed Michael Chong.

If the latest CSIS report in the Globe sounds familiar, here’s a piece I wrote three years ago: Who do Chinese diplomats think they are, threatening Canadians this way? And here’s Sam Cooper at Global News from 2019: Why CSIS thinks Canada is a ‘permissive target’ for China’s interference. That was about a report from National Intelligence and Security Committee of Parliamentarians (NISCOP) which found that Canada had become an “attractive and permissive target” for Beijing’s overseas operations, and that those operations target the “foundations of our fundamental institutions, including our system of democracy itself.”

Why such a “permissive” target? Because the Beijing regime had won the support of influential Canadians with carrots and sticks, and public attention to the crisis was “almost non-existent,” the NSICOP report asserted. The report was just one of several over five years that the Trudeau government totally ignored and didn’t even bother responding to, NSICOP complained last year (See: Changing the Subject, Burying the Story).

And of course it’s NISCOP Trudeau tells us will look into the recent revelations of Beijing’s election-interference operations. So good luck this time around, NISCOP! He’s handed all questions about the election-interference scandals to another old China hand, the former Governor-General David Johnston, who has spent a half-century helping Beijing in its efforts to pull Canada into its orbit.

And what of that Chinese Ministry of State Security official masquerading as a diplomat in the latest Globe story? It’s a spy by the name of Zhao Wei. Such friends in high places he has!

A variety of Team Trudeau bigshots have been enjoying Zhao’s company all this time, at all manner of banquets and luncheons and commemorations. As in International Trade Minister Mary Ng, Liberal MPs Geng Tan, Han Dong (now sitting it out as an independent MP while his back-channel liaisons with Beijing’s emissaries are explained away), Majid Jowhari, Shawn Chen, and even the hapless Ontario Conservative MPP Vincent Ke (also sitting it out as an independent for now, having been implicated in the same backstairs election-interference operation that has complicated things for Dong).

Anyway, this is all just gross. Chong is about as upstanding an MP as you’ll meet on the Hill, and he’s furious that the Trudeau government appears to have been sitting on this powder keg for two years and nobody bothered to tell him. The prime minister says he’ll have his “officials” look into it.

It just never ends. Beijing’s bullying and intimidation and strongarming in Canada have been researched and documented ad nauseum, to no noticeable effect. Here’s an exhaustive report, last updated three years ago: Harassment and Intimidation of Individuals in Canada Working on China-Related Human Rights Concerns. Here’s just one case I wrote about five years ago: How China's dictatorship reached a student in Vancouver.

Speaking of officials looking into things, Morris Rosenberg was assigned to look into foreign interference in the 2021 federal elections and gave the process a clean bill of health. This is the same Morris Rosenberg, a former Trudeau Foundation luminary, who is appearing before the House Ethics Committee today. Rosenberg will be answering questions about the $140,000 dirty-money donation from a Chinese billionaire and regime operative that was part of an influence operation aimed at Prime Minister Justin Trudeau himself.

And on Wednesday, the insufferable celebrity documentarist, China enthusiast and vanity memoirist Alexandre Trudeau, Justin’s brother, will appear before the same committee to explain why he arranged the donation. Perhaps he’ll have some insight into why almost everyone on the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation board has resigned in embarrassment and disgust over the foundation’s conduct, which included monkeying around with tax receipts to hide who was really behind the money.

We really, really care about national security. Honest we do.

And now a follow-up from last week’s inquiries into an Ottawa conference put together by an organization openly affiliated with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), a terrorist-listed entity in Canada, the United States, the European Union, Australia and Japan.

Here’s the National Post piece: Anti-Israel conference in Ottawa set to go, despite connections to banned terror group. Here’s last Friday’s Real Story newsletter: A PFLP terror proxy in Ottawa: the backstory. I regret to say ‘you read it here first,’ and my regret is that this sort of thing is just so commonplace now that hardly anybody bothers to notice.

Remember: the PFLP is a banned terrorist organization in Canada, Europe, the United States and Japan. Israel listed its international proxy Samidoun as a terrorist group on February 28, 2021. Three days later, the federal agency Corporations Canada was kind enough to grant Samidoun official status as a registered non-profit corporation. Full story from last year: The curious case of Khaled Barakat.

Here’s Barakat in Ottawa at the rousing rally concluding the weekend conference, which wound up at the Human Rights Monument, of all inappropriate places. Do note that Barakat explicitly states his support for the armed wings of Hamas (the al-Qassam Brigades) and Palestinian Islamic Jihad (Saraya al-Jihad), and the PFLP (Abu Ali Mustafa).

From earlier today, here’s a conference post-mortem from Samidoun’s international coordinator, Charlotte Kates, with Aidan Jonah, the deranged little man who runs the purportedly “radical” Canada Files webzine.

I’m amused to note that Kates complains that my notice of the conference isn’t the first time I’ve been impudent about Samidoun. What an I doing when I’m not “engaging in a smear campaign against the Palestinian movement”? I’m “trying to urge war with China and war with Iran.” But to the matter at hand:

“The real problem is actually the state policy that exists,” Kates explains. “For example we have this so-called terrorist-entities list in Canada that is used to list a few, you know, like, fascist or violent right-wing groups, but then is also by and large used mostly to list resistance organizations, particularly in Palestine and Lebanon and elsewhere in the region.

“And this entire terrorist list is set up as a mechanism to try to suppress people’s ability to build ties and build relationships with the forces that are actually doing the most to fight for liberation on the ground.”

An odd way, I would have thought, to describe Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, Hezbollah, the Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades, the Palestine Liberation Front, ISIL (Daesh), Al Qaida, the PFLP and the PFLP - General Command.

But the we are. Canada is a “post-national” state, according to our prime minister, so this is what attention to “national security” looks like now.

Kates also complains that Canada “has not hesitated to throw money and arms in order to fuel conflict and in Ukraine,” and that B’nai Brith and CIJA and the National Post are trying fuel “war drives” on behalf of imperialism.

Meanwhile, today:

At least 26 rockets were reportedly fired from the Gaza Strip toward southern Israel on Tuesday with two rockets even hitting Sderot and wounding at least seven civilians.

The first round of rockets started just hours after Palestinian Islamic Jihad official Khader Adnan died following a three-month-long hunger strike against his being held in administrative detention. Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad both took responsibility for the rocket fire.

About Sheikh Khader Adnan: A self-admitted member of the Khomeinist-backed Islamic Jihad organization, Adnan has been in and out of Israeli prisons for years, and has staged hunger strikes several times. And he’s always been a Samidoun favorite. Now he’s a “martyr of freedom.”

Enough out of me for now. Back later in the week.