Caught red-handed in Beijing's embrace time and time again, Team Trudeau reaches for the nuclear option: Attack CSIS to the point of collective perjury.
This development, and the article this morning by Sam Cooper on Chinese money laundering via fentanyl trafficking in the U.S came out within half an hour of each other (of course, it's happening in Canada too). We used to have a scandal once a month or so, then once every couple of weeks, now two in the same day, soon to be 3 when further details on the budget are released. I'm surprised Trudeau can keep his balance on top of the mountain of lies he, most of his ministers and the PMO have swept under the Canadian flag-motif carpet.
When CSIS tells the Trudeau government what they already know about Chinese interference in Canada's elections, Trudeau says it must be treated with skepticism because Canada's intelligence services are notoriously unreliable. But when Canada's intelligence services suggest that India might be somehow connected to the murder of a Sikh terrorist in Vancouver, Trudeau jumps on that intelligence as though it is a certainty, and causes an international scene by accusing India's Prime Minister directly. Something doesn't add up here.
It's amazing. I wonder if the public really doesn't care if their PM lies, or are we so tribal that we don't mind our own guy lying? Or are we drowning in the sea of moral relevatism, Trudeau allowing about letting the Chinese radically interfere in our affairs and elections because it helped him is no worse than you adding a "Sr" to a title or inflating something on your CV? It actually is a bigger deal. I've long held (but can't seem to find proper data on this) that the average Canadian's knowledge of political affairs doesn't go much beyond being able to name the PM. Public ignorance is a tool of the authoritarian. I remember asking a class of 60 how many had heard of this issue when it broke, about two people, and they barely knew.
Thank you Terry for this. I was waiting for your assessment as I had read Sam’s piece and of course I also caught his newer one on the fentanyl and drug trafficking in the US. He just had another on a report from Taiwan and how they stop the Chinese interference. I guess unless Trudeau is willing to put measures in place we are truly at the mercy of the CCP and their United Front Workers. I am befuddled how this is allowed to continue with proxies sitting in our Parliament and Senate. Seems that the Government truly is above the law and we are no longer a democratic and free country. I do not know how many times I have attempted to inform those I know of the infiltration and interference of the CCP only to have people shrug their shoulders or say they are not interested in stuff like that. I am not sure what frightens me more, the fact it is all around us or that no one pays much attention or seems to care. I thank you again for writing and making this public knowledge, I just wish more Canadian’s paid attention and truly cared about this country.
Exactly what recourse do we have regarding this nefarious behaviour by the Liberals? Imagine the damage that’s been done to our Five Eyes relationship. Our credibility on the world stage is in tatters. And most low information Canadian voters don’t know anything about these shenanigans. I worry for my adopted country.
Terry has made the most salient point in this entire debacle. It is pure collusion, not interference. When the CCP were invited by the Liberals, it becomes active, illegal participation. Beyond the grimy political objective of clinging to power, the remainder of the possible Liberal motivations are far more nebulous. Is it outright blackmail or the usual financial, ideological, and egotistical drivers? The precise benefits to China from successive Liberal governments are also not adequately delineated, in my view.
Thanks to Terry and his colleagues, we know exactly what they were doing. The next journalistic frontier is a meaningful, detailed explanation of why.
Mr. Glavin’s parsing of the Liberal talking points at last week’s Hogue inquiry help Canadians to understand just why someone deeply embedded in CSIS (or some other branch of the intelligence apparatus) would start leaking classified material to reporters.
The Government and Liberal Party have been given lots of information, time and resources to clean up a foreign interference mess and seem to be sitting on their hands. It’s also useful to note that having been outed by intelligence leaks just who the government and senior Liberals have thrown under the bus as being the unreliable source of information for politicians to trust.
Off topic, but add Belgium to the list of countries that aren't willing to provide a safe space for PFLP front "Samidoun Network":
"Belgium’s government on Monday said it wanted to revoke the refugee status of the head of a network supporting Palestinian prisoners, whom it accused of being an “extremist hate preacher.”
Mohammed Khatib is the coordinator in Europe for Samidoun, a controversial organization close to Palestinian Islamist groups that was banned in neighboring Germany after allegedly celebrating the October 7 attack by Hamas on Israel.
Belgium’s Secretary of State for Asylum and Migration, Nicole de Moor, announced that she had asked the immigration services to withdraw the refugee status of Khatib, whom she said was “known as an extremist hate preacher.”
I can’t add much in the way of substance to all these excellent comments. My question, Terry, is: “Will you be playing yourself in the Netflix documentary-drama of this surreal scenario?”
Further, we frequently hear from the Liberal party - Harper Harper Harper - just how many inquiries, investigations, major scandals came out of Stephen Harper’s tenure?
“Say you’re a CSIS agent and your work requires you to track and trace Beijing’s subterfuge in Canada. Say you’re investigating the United Front’s above-ground and subterranean activities, and you keep encountering all these amazingly well-connected millionaire United Front princelings with intimate political and social links to Trudeau and his cabinet.
What are you supposed to do? Spy on federal cabinet ministers? Open a file on the prime minister? “
Corruption & Liberals go hand in hand & the vast majority of Canadians are meh. Another 18 months of this unless Jagmeet can grow a pair.
I'm thankful for people like you Terry. Your work is largely thankless, you are not in it for the money and so many prefer ignorance or the empty calories of TikTok and other media. The obfuscation presented by those you deal with (usually Liberals) is high end, their skills developed from years or observation and trial and error. You are like a man searching through thick fog for a lost child; the weather is cold, you are wet, most have given up, you are alone and yet you continue until you find the child. Without journalists like you our government would become authoritarian very quickly, leaders elected under democracy do not come with special moral cores that are rot free. You do a lot of good in this world and for many it is not unnoticed. Thank you.
Trump and Trudeau are two sides of the same coin. I can easily imagine Trudeau and Xi at a news conference together and Trudeau saying “I trust Xi. My intelligence agencies, not so much”.
As I said on X when I fwd’d Terry’s link - Terry Glavin’s clear assessment of who we have sitting as a government - if this doesn’t spell it out for you, there’s no help for you.
It seems to me that Han Dong is morally a traitor, but he hasn't broken any Canadian laws, so the Liberals are just waiting for the smoke to clear to reinstate him.
There is no pride in being Canadian any more, so nobody cares if we become a CCP satrapy.
Fantastic editorial Terry. I believe Butts is involved along with Obummer in our politics with China's Xi Jinping wants the West and will do anything to destroy Canada along with America. Trudeau lies so much that he can not tell the truth anymore, he is bought and paid for by the CCP
This development, and the article this morning by Sam Cooper on Chinese money laundering via fentanyl trafficking in the U.S came out within half an hour of each other (of course, it's happening in Canada too). We used to have a scandal once a month or so, then once every couple of weeks, now two in the same day, soon to be 3 when further details on the budget are released. I'm surprised Trudeau can keep his balance on top of the mountain of lies he, most of his ministers and the PMO have swept under the Canadian flag-motif carpet.
When CSIS tells the Trudeau government what they already know about Chinese interference in Canada's elections, Trudeau says it must be treated with skepticism because Canada's intelligence services are notoriously unreliable. But when Canada's intelligence services suggest that India might be somehow connected to the murder of a Sikh terrorist in Vancouver, Trudeau jumps on that intelligence as though it is a certainty, and causes an international scene by accusing India's Prime Minister directly. Something doesn't add up here.
It's amazing. I wonder if the public really doesn't care if their PM lies, or are we so tribal that we don't mind our own guy lying? Or are we drowning in the sea of moral relevatism, Trudeau allowing about letting the Chinese radically interfere in our affairs and elections because it helped him is no worse than you adding a "Sr" to a title or inflating something on your CV? It actually is a bigger deal. I've long held (but can't seem to find proper data on this) that the average Canadian's knowledge of political affairs doesn't go much beyond being able to name the PM. Public ignorance is a tool of the authoritarian. I remember asking a class of 60 how many had heard of this issue when it broke, about two people, and they barely knew.
Thank you Terry for this. I was waiting for your assessment as I had read Sam’s piece and of course I also caught his newer one on the fentanyl and drug trafficking in the US. He just had another on a report from Taiwan and how they stop the Chinese interference. I guess unless Trudeau is willing to put measures in place we are truly at the mercy of the CCP and their United Front Workers. I am befuddled how this is allowed to continue with proxies sitting in our Parliament and Senate. Seems that the Government truly is above the law and we are no longer a democratic and free country. I do not know how many times I have attempted to inform those I know of the infiltration and interference of the CCP only to have people shrug their shoulders or say they are not interested in stuff like that. I am not sure what frightens me more, the fact it is all around us or that no one pays much attention or seems to care. I thank you again for writing and making this public knowledge, I just wish more Canadian’s paid attention and truly cared about this country.
Exactly what recourse do we have regarding this nefarious behaviour by the Liberals? Imagine the damage that’s been done to our Five Eyes relationship. Our credibility on the world stage is in tatters. And most low information Canadian voters don’t know anything about these shenanigans. I worry for my adopted country.
Terry has made the most salient point in this entire debacle. It is pure collusion, not interference. When the CCP were invited by the Liberals, it becomes active, illegal participation. Beyond the grimy political objective of clinging to power, the remainder of the possible Liberal motivations are far more nebulous. Is it outright blackmail or the usual financial, ideological, and egotistical drivers? The precise benefits to China from successive Liberal governments are also not adequately delineated, in my view.
Thanks to Terry and his colleagues, we know exactly what they were doing. The next journalistic frontier is a meaningful, detailed explanation of why.
Great article, but sobering reading.
Mr. Glavin’s parsing of the Liberal talking points at last week’s Hogue inquiry help Canadians to understand just why someone deeply embedded in CSIS (or some other branch of the intelligence apparatus) would start leaking classified material to reporters.
The Government and Liberal Party have been given lots of information, time and resources to clean up a foreign interference mess and seem to be sitting on their hands. It’s also useful to note that having been outed by intelligence leaks just who the government and senior Liberals have thrown under the bus as being the unreliable source of information for politicians to trust.
Off topic, but add Belgium to the list of countries that aren't willing to provide a safe space for PFLP front "Samidoun Network":
"Belgium’s government on Monday said it wanted to revoke the refugee status of the head of a network supporting Palestinian prisoners, whom it accused of being an “extremist hate preacher.”
Mohammed Khatib is the coordinator in Europe for Samidoun, a controversial organization close to Palestinian Islamist groups that was banned in neighboring Germany after allegedly celebrating the October 7 attack by Hamas on Israel.
Belgium’s Secretary of State for Asylum and Migration, Nicole de Moor, announced that she had asked the immigration services to withdraw the refugee status of Khatib, whom she said was “known as an extremist hate preacher.”
https://www.timesofisrael.com/belgium-pushes-to-expel-controversial-palestinian-activist-hate-preacher/?utm_source=The+Daily+Edition&utm_campaign=daily-edition-2024-04-16&utm_medium=email
I can’t add much in the way of substance to all these excellent comments. My question, Terry, is: “Will you be playing yourself in the Netflix documentary-drama of this surreal scenario?”
Further, we frequently hear from the Liberal party - Harper Harper Harper - just how many inquiries, investigations, major scandals came out of Stephen Harper’s tenure?
“Say you’re a CSIS agent and your work requires you to track and trace Beijing’s subterfuge in Canada. Say you’re investigating the United Front’s above-ground and subterranean activities, and you keep encountering all these amazingly well-connected millionaire United Front princelings with intimate political and social links to Trudeau and his cabinet.
What are you supposed to do? Spy on federal cabinet ministers? Open a file on the prime minister? “
Corruption & Liberals go hand in hand & the vast majority of Canadians are meh. Another 18 months of this unless Jagmeet can grow a pair.
I'm thankful for people like you Terry. Your work is largely thankless, you are not in it for the money and so many prefer ignorance or the empty calories of TikTok and other media. The obfuscation presented by those you deal with (usually Liberals) is high end, their skills developed from years or observation and trial and error. You are like a man searching through thick fog for a lost child; the weather is cold, you are wet, most have given up, you are alone and yet you continue until you find the child. Without journalists like you our government would become authoritarian very quickly, leaders elected under democracy do not come with special moral cores that are rot free. You do a lot of good in this world and for many it is not unnoticed. Thank you.
Trump and Trudeau are two sides of the same coin. I can easily imagine Trudeau and Xi at a news conference together and Trudeau saying “I trust Xi. My intelligence agencies, not so much”.
As I said on X when I fwd’d Terry’s link - Terry Glavin’s clear assessment of who we have sitting as a government - if this doesn’t spell it out for you, there’s no help for you.
It seems to me that Han Dong is morally a traitor, but he hasn't broken any Canadian laws, so the Liberals are just waiting for the smoke to clear to reinstate him.
There is no pride in being Canadian any more, so nobody cares if we become a CCP satrapy.
Fantastic editorial Terry. I believe Butts is involved along with Obummer in our politics with China's Xi Jinping wants the West and will do anything to destroy Canada along with America. Trudeau lies so much that he can not tell the truth anymore, he is bought and paid for by the CCP