So far the Trudeau government has skated on every issue that matters to Canadians. The brave few journalists willing to challenge the Captain Sillysocks regime by hauling them into the sunlight have informed the public but accountability and consequences are glaringly lacking.
I like your comment of “magisterial” for Andrew Coyne’s article on Johnston’s role as “rapporteur.” I would describe your own work over the last few years as truly magisterial. I have always found your work detailed and enlightening — never more so than on this file.
Watching 60 Minutes Australia's "Eyes on China" program online assemble top intelligence officers from the 5 Eyes alliance, (a program I can never imagine airing in Canada), I was struck by how far from external reality Canada has drifted...tugged? swum? been propelled?
A point made several times that China and Russia's fundamental intent to weaken and bury the "West" was proceeding along multiple parallel pathways and involved opportunistic exploitation of any means necessary, including government alliances with criminals controlling the drug trade. This connection never seems to air in British Columbia though as the societal equivalent of germ warfare, it's virulent effectiveness is obvious and astounding.
A major factor in the persisting bias toward Communist (and ex in name only) states, is a legacy of Communism's long march through our institutions. Canadian heroes like the Communist, Norman Bethune, who returned from Russia evangelical about socialized medicine the year before Stalin used remote control starvation to purge Ukraine of 5 million peasants and Pierre (and Margaret) Trudeau's admiration for Fidel Castro, the prototype "irrational actor" who had just used world destruction as a means to achieve power, evidence willful blindness to anything not fitting the current ideological templates.
Sometime post 1975 and French Connection a bunch of corrupt Hong Kong cops got busted for being involved with heroin smuggling. They were given a choice; prison or exile. Guess where they landed? Yep. Vancouver. Fast forward to 1990 and Vancouver had overtaken NYC as the main import point for heroin into north America. One piece of the puzzle
Terry, I really enjoy the links as its a reminder of other stories you wrote. The more I read and reread the stories I feel you also believe in the Marxsit ideology that has infected our educational and other Institutions, and even our banks. I had asked if you believed this is more than just a Conspiracy Theroy but perhaps did not put the question forward properly? I would love to hear your views on this and the "Great Leap Forward" as pertaining to the action of our own Government and their actions of cancelling our history. You spoke of O'Toole and that he is not a "red" Tory or infused like Charest. I have trouble decerning which of the Conservative members are more embroiled with the Regime but could it be those of the Laurentian elite class Conservatives? Or is it random? I would really like to know your thoughts on this as I trust your perspective.
O’toole appearing in red high heels at a pride event was all the red many needed. He also ran on a platform of free speech but after winning, he immediately censored those in his party who were speaking out about the info op foisted upon us. Then he proceeded to offer years of non opposition as our charter was abused on a daily basis.
O’Toole did some tap dancing on many issues once he was elected party leader. Then he stayed silent when Canadians needed him to speak the most. He failed during the pandemic but he was tough on China.
You would have to know how to read and to follow all the links that Terry provides to other stories on the subject with in this piece. It’s difficult for some to follow along or know that there are other links (like I mentioned in my question to him) and the fact I valued his perspective enough to ask his opinion on the Marxist theory behind the Trudeau Government. As well as that theory being involved in other parties as well, such as the NDP and some Conservatives. It is not just a one party problem. It’s through out parties, Provinces, and all of our Institutions in Canada.
The relevance of OToole is his posted remarks on how his interview with Johnston went, an interview held after the Johnston report had been sent for translation
There will now be unleashed a 'hunt for the messenger' that kicked this entire episode in to the media. This is deflection as all will understand and yet it will be pursued as the appropriate approach given Johnston's masterful coverup as reflected in his report. What I find particularly amusing about this is the dismissal of a public inquiry as useless as too much of the information is classified and hence cannot be made public, but, mirabile dictu, Johnston's own little public exploration is just what the doctor ordered. If the first is true, I am at a loss why anyone would bother with the second.
I very much hope this becomes a permanent albatross around the Liberal neck. They need to go to the penalty box for a term or two and sort themselves out. Canada needs the break from sanctimony and self-righteousness - at the very least, Canada needs some soak time on what a feminine foreign and defence policy is and why we're being ignored by the Five Eyes (well, the four without blinkers on, the Quad, and on it goes.
We’re going round and round the mulberry bush and not getting anywhere. I think that’s the plan. Summer’s coming and bbq season. I think they’re hoping we’ll forget.
Can always count on you to tell it straight, Terry. It was refreshing to be spared the apparently mandatory paragraph or two about what an unassailably eminent Canadian Mr. Johnston is.
To most critically thinking Canadians this is another significant milestone in the inexorable decline of this country since 2015. Despite scandal, corruption, conflicts of interest and outright criminal activity, no one loses a job or is prosecuted. Once again, we are told that there is nothing to see here.
Despite the good work from Terry and a handful of genuine journalists, Canadians will shrug, shake their heads and return to the status quo. We are the problem. A combination of ignorance, willful blindness, complacency, and compliance will ensure that there are no consequences for the government.
French style, mass protests are the remedy for what ails us but don't hold your breath.
Thanks for the article, Terry! Great insight! Perhaps this is off the point but O'Toole did a lot to bring about his own defeat as well. At least in my riding. I had volunteered for CPC in '19 so I knew a woman on the CPC Committee. When I told her I would NOT vote for O'Toole she told me she was hearing that a lot. (O'Toole did lose this riding because of large PPC protest vote). My reasons were that I felt he aligned too closely with Trudeau on just about everything. And I was particularly upset at how he pushed the vaccines. Even in '19 specialists like Dr McCullough were issuing warnings. And prominent Canadian pathologist Dr Roger Hodkinson nailed it right at the beginning. He said, "This is a scam". But O'Toole & Rempel never deviated from the Liberal narrative. Now with the National Citizens Inquiry ( hope you will do an article on that) a lot of other experts have stepped up and and told us just how much of a scam Covid and the vaccines have been. Hope I didn't go too off point. Again, thanks for the China insight.
What I find particularly odd and grating is how so many commentators are practically falling over themselves to reiterate that David Johnston is such a distinguished gentleman whose honour and integrity must not be impugned by the likes of us oiks. Thank you for giving us the real story, Terry!
In recommending against a public inquiry into foreign interference, David Johnston (aka Uncle Dave to the Trudeau brothers), an unelected long-time family friend of the Prime Minister of Canada, and former member of the Trudeau Foundation, has rejected the views of the House of Commons, which voted in favour of a public inquiry, and 70% of Canadians, who want a public inquiry, according to recent polls. So Uncle Dave gets to override parliament. What is going on in Canada?
But wait, there’s more. David Johnson helped set up propaganda and espionage institutes for the CCP in Canada. As president of the University of Waterloo, Johnston oversaw the establishment of one of China’s propaganda-and-espionage Confucius Institutes." And, according to the National Post "he was awarded an honorary doctorate from Nanjing University in 2012, Johnston had already made more than a dozen visits to China. Laurentianism at its finest.
One thing that could happen but probably won’t is any remaining Liberal MPs with an ethical compass must cross the floor to the Conservatives and NOT wait for Jagmeet to choose Canada over getting his pension. Clearly, the Liberal government is compromised. The Governor General should dissolve parliament and call an election, but then she might have to give up her taxpayer-funded shopping trips to Dubai and Germany.
But I am liking the idea of emulating the people of France, “To the barricades!”
So far the Trudeau government has skated on every issue that matters to Canadians. The brave few journalists willing to challenge the Captain Sillysocks regime by hauling them into the sunlight have informed the public but accountability and consequences are glaringly lacking.
I like your comment of “magisterial” for Andrew Coyne’s article on Johnston’s role as “rapporteur.” I would describe your own work over the last few years as truly magisterial. I have always found your work detailed and enlightening — never more so than on this file.
As always , excellent reporting , what would we do without you and your colleagues at the Globe and Global and some gutsy bureaucrats.
Watching 60 Minutes Australia's "Eyes on China" program online assemble top intelligence officers from the 5 Eyes alliance, (a program I can never imagine airing in Canada), I was struck by how far from external reality Canada has drifted...tugged? swum? been propelled?
A point made several times that China and Russia's fundamental intent to weaken and bury the "West" was proceeding along multiple parallel pathways and involved opportunistic exploitation of any means necessary, including government alliances with criminals controlling the drug trade. This connection never seems to air in British Columbia though as the societal equivalent of germ warfare, it's virulent effectiveness is obvious and astounding.
A major factor in the persisting bias toward Communist (and ex in name only) states, is a legacy of Communism's long march through our institutions. Canadian heroes like the Communist, Norman Bethune, who returned from Russia evangelical about socialized medicine the year before Stalin used remote control starvation to purge Ukraine of 5 million peasants and Pierre (and Margaret) Trudeau's admiration for Fidel Castro, the prototype "irrational actor" who had just used world destruction as a means to achieve power, evidence willful blindness to anything not fitting the current ideological templates.
Sometime post 1975 and French Connection a bunch of corrupt Hong Kong cops got busted for being involved with heroin smuggling. They were given a choice; prison or exile. Guess where they landed? Yep. Vancouver. Fast forward to 1990 and Vancouver had overtaken NYC as the main import point for heroin into north America. One piece of the puzzle
The report just out
Absolute bs
I think we all should promote a boycott of anything more to do with Johnston and the proces.
There should be a non confidence vote
Kick them out
Ndp going to disappear into obscurity over this if they continue to suppert the liberals
Terry, I really enjoy the links as its a reminder of other stories you wrote. The more I read and reread the stories I feel you also believe in the Marxsit ideology that has infected our educational and other Institutions, and even our banks. I had asked if you believed this is more than just a Conspiracy Theroy but perhaps did not put the question forward properly? I would love to hear your views on this and the "Great Leap Forward" as pertaining to the action of our own Government and their actions of cancelling our history. You spoke of O'Toole and that he is not a "red" Tory or infused like Charest. I have trouble decerning which of the Conservative members are more embroiled with the Regime but could it be those of the Laurentian elite class Conservatives? Or is it random? I would really like to know your thoughts on this as I trust your perspective.
O’toole appearing in red high heels at a pride event was all the red many needed. He also ran on a platform of free speech but after winning, he immediately censored those in his party who were speaking out about the info op foisted upon us. Then he proceeded to offer years of non opposition as our charter was abused on a daily basis.
O’Toole did some tap dancing on many issues once he was elected party leader. Then he stayed silent when Canadians needed him to speak the most. He failed during the pandemic but he was tough on China.
You would have to know how to read and to follow all the links that Terry provides to other stories on the subject with in this piece. It’s difficult for some to follow along or know that there are other links (like I mentioned in my question to him) and the fact I valued his perspective enough to ask his opinion on the Marxist theory behind the Trudeau Government. As well as that theory being involved in other parties as well, such as the NDP and some Conservatives. It is not just a one party problem. It’s through out parties, Provinces, and all of our Institutions in Canada.
The relevance of OToole is his posted remarks on how his interview with Johnston went, an interview held after the Johnston report had been sent for translation
Language!
Language.
There will now be unleashed a 'hunt for the messenger' that kicked this entire episode in to the media. This is deflection as all will understand and yet it will be pursued as the appropriate approach given Johnston's masterful coverup as reflected in his report. What I find particularly amusing about this is the dismissal of a public inquiry as useless as too much of the information is classified and hence cannot be made public, but, mirabile dictu, Johnston's own little public exploration is just what the doctor ordered. If the first is true, I am at a loss why anyone would bother with the second.
I very much hope this becomes a permanent albatross around the Liberal neck. They need to go to the penalty box for a term or two and sort themselves out. Canada needs the break from sanctimony and self-righteousness - at the very least, Canada needs some soak time on what a feminine foreign and defence policy is and why we're being ignored by the Five Eyes (well, the four without blinkers on, the Quad, and on it goes.
We’re going round and round the mulberry bush and not getting anywhere. I think that’s the plan. Summer’s coming and bbq season. I think they’re hoping we’ll forget.
Can always count on you to tell it straight, Terry. It was refreshing to be spared the apparently mandatory paragraph or two about what an unassailably eminent Canadian Mr. Johnston is.
To most critically thinking Canadians this is another significant milestone in the inexorable decline of this country since 2015. Despite scandal, corruption, conflicts of interest and outright criminal activity, no one loses a job or is prosecuted. Once again, we are told that there is nothing to see here.
Despite the good work from Terry and a handful of genuine journalists, Canadians will shrug, shake their heads and return to the status quo. We are the problem. A combination of ignorance, willful blindness, complacency, and compliance will ensure that there are no consequences for the government.
French style, mass protests are the remedy for what ails us but don't hold your breath.
Sorry Terry, but with all due respect to you and The Real Story , Andrew Coyne is a goof. His credibility has been shot for a long time now.
actually Coyne came close to saying he thought Johnston would sell Canada out and protect Trudeau's ass, O'Tooles bit kinda convinced him
My brother in law, a very loyal Liberal, says Andrew Coyne "is just like Trump".
your bro in law is an ass
Thanks for the article, Terry! Great insight! Perhaps this is off the point but O'Toole did a lot to bring about his own defeat as well. At least in my riding. I had volunteered for CPC in '19 so I knew a woman on the CPC Committee. When I told her I would NOT vote for O'Toole she told me she was hearing that a lot. (O'Toole did lose this riding because of large PPC protest vote). My reasons were that I felt he aligned too closely with Trudeau on just about everything. And I was particularly upset at how he pushed the vaccines. Even in '19 specialists like Dr McCullough were issuing warnings. And prominent Canadian pathologist Dr Roger Hodkinson nailed it right at the beginning. He said, "This is a scam". But O'Toole & Rempel never deviated from the Liberal narrative. Now with the National Citizens Inquiry ( hope you will do an article on that) a lot of other experts have stepped up and and told us just how much of a scam Covid and the vaccines have been. Hope I didn't go too off point. Again, thanks for the China insight.
related to Reg Weeks. [RIP}
What I find particularly odd and grating is how so many commentators are practically falling over themselves to reiterate that David Johnston is such a distinguished gentleman whose honour and integrity must not be impugned by the likes of us oiks. Thank you for giving us the real story, Terry!
In recommending against a public inquiry into foreign interference, David Johnston (aka Uncle Dave to the Trudeau brothers), an unelected long-time family friend of the Prime Minister of Canada, and former member of the Trudeau Foundation, has rejected the views of the House of Commons, which voted in favour of a public inquiry, and 70% of Canadians, who want a public inquiry, according to recent polls. So Uncle Dave gets to override parliament. What is going on in Canada?
But wait, there’s more. David Johnson helped set up propaganda and espionage institutes for the CCP in Canada. As president of the University of Waterloo, Johnston oversaw the establishment of one of China’s propaganda-and-espionage Confucius Institutes." And, according to the National Post "he was awarded an honorary doctorate from Nanjing University in 2012, Johnston had already made more than a dozen visits to China. Laurentianism at its finest.
One thing that could happen but probably won’t is any remaining Liberal MPs with an ethical compass must cross the floor to the Conservatives and NOT wait for Jagmeet to choose Canada over getting his pension. Clearly, the Liberal government is compromised. The Governor General should dissolve parliament and call an election, but then she might have to give up her taxpayer-funded shopping trips to Dubai and Germany.
But I am liking the idea of emulating the people of France, “To the barricades!”