National Identity
Addressing an audience in Montreal, Senator Victor Oh said he is planning to rent buses to transport up to 3,000 people to Ottawa for an upcoming demonstration against proposed legislation to create a foreign agent registry aimed at combatting foreign influence.
“We need to rent buses to [transport people] from Toronto. I plan to rent 50 buses. … Each can accommodate around 55 to 60 people, so with 50 buses, that’s 3,000 people,” Oh told his audience in Chinese at an event held at the Montreal Chinese Community United Centre (MCCUC), according to a video posted June 13 on Weixin, the Chinese version of WeChat. The video’s caption said Oh spoke “yesterday,” indicating the event was held on June 12.
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Read MorePrivy Council President Bill Blair yesterday said he never saw a secret memo on Chinese spies because it was sent to the wrong office. Blair’s earlier claim that information was deliberately withheld by the Canadian Security Intelligence Service was contradicted in committee testimony.
“I am advised they sent it to another office with the intent that I would somehow get to see it,” Blair told reporters. “The briefing note was sent to another deputy head, to another office, not my office, and I was never advised that the report existed or where it could be located.”
Blair would not name the official who received the security warning. “Do you know if the memo was read?” asked a reporter. “I have no idea,” replied Blair.
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Read MoreCabinet yesterday said Canadian delegates will no longer attend meetings of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank but stopped short of dumping Canada’s shares in the Beijing operation. It followed complaints by a Canadian executive working for the Bank that the Communist Party “runs the joint.”
“The Government of Canada will immediately halt all government-led activity at the Bank and I have instructed the Department of Finance to lead an immediate review of the allegations raised and of Canada’s involvement in the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank,” Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland told reporters. Freeland stopped short of withdrawing Canadian funds from the Bank.
The review follows the abrupt resignation of Bob Pickard, a Toronto publicist working as chief of communications for the Bank. “As a patriotic Canadian this was my only course,” Pickard said in a statement. “The Bank is dominated by Communist Party members.”
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Read MoreOntario is one of the most diverse provinces in this country. As a consequence, our schools have a highly diverse student population that encompasses people with different ethnic backgrounds, nationalities, cultures, and religions, as well as different races, skin colours, genders, preferred genders, and sexual orientations, you name it. One can easily extend this wide range of diversity to include people’s dietary choices, such as omnivores, vegetarians, vegans, carnivores, etc. Furthermore, it is possible to create group identities by cross-referencing categories and within groups, for example, bi-racial individuals with different religious beliefs, etc. To be clear, I am not being sarcastic, just stating the possibilities.
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Read MoreAs expected, formal plans have been submitted to house 400 migrants at the Northop Hall Hotel.
Back in May, Rebel News UK made the trip to the small village of Northop Hall in North Wales to cover the story of a potential “Initial Accommodation Hotel” for up to 400 so-called asylum seekers to be housed in, with a new batch of single men every 6-8 weeks.
The plan was for 150 migrants to be housed in the hotel rooms and 250 in modular accommodation over a period of seven years
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Read MorePrivy Council President Bill Blair’s claim that federal spies withheld information on Chinese interference is false, the House affairs committee was told last night. The director of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service said he specifically sent a memo to warn Blair that foreign agents were targeting MPs.
“The information was meant to be seen by the Minister,” testified David Vigneault, CSIS director. “That was the purpose of this note, to bring it to the attention of these people,” he added.
The May 2021 memo said Chinese agents “intended to target” two MPs with family members in Hong Kong, Conservative MP Michael Chong (Wellington-Halton Hills, Ont.) and New Democrat MP Jenny Kwan (Vancouver East). Neither MP was told. No action was taken.
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Read MoreDavid Morrison, the Prime Minister’s former national security advisor, yesterday testified he read a secret 2021 memo on intimidation of MPs by Chinese agents but concluded there “was nothing in the note that spurred me to take action.” Morrison said he read the memo with the 2021 election underway.
“There was nothing in the note that spurred me to take action,” Morrison testified at the House affairs committee. “I was national security advisor at that point for an indeterminate amount of time. I didn’t know how long. It would seem to be a week-to-week or month-to-month thing.”
The July 20, 2021 memo from the Canadian Security Intelligence Service detailed political subterfuge by Chinese agents. Morrison said he received it August 17, 2021 two days after the Prime Minister called a general election.
“You didn’t twig to the fact this could be an issue in a campaign that had just been called?” asked Conservative MP John Nater (Perth-Wellington, Ont.). “The answer to the question is no,” replied Morrison.
“I find that simply astonishing,” said MP Nater.
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Read MoreThe RCMP yesterday testified they relied on politicians and news reporters for leads on alleged election fraud by Chinese agents. “I wouldn’t be proud of that,” said Conservative MP Luc Berthold (Mégantic-L’Erable, Que.).
Mark Flynn, deputy commissioner, testified at the House affairs committee that RCMP are currently investigating allegations of foreign interference targeting three MPs: Conservative MPs Michael Chong (Wellington-Halton Hills, Ont.) and Erin O’Toole (Durham, Ont.) and New Democrat MP Jenny Kwan (Vancouver East). All three MPs first made the allegations public.
“The RCMP is aware of the public visibility into different accusations of interference in democratic processes including Mr. Chong as well as other Members of Parliament that you’ve heard about who have spoken either in Parliament or in various committees about meddling in elections, misinformation or interference in voter influencing that’s going on,” said Deputy Commissioner Flynn.
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Read MoreThe future of Canada’s military colleges is under review by a board composed primarily of members who never attended a military college.
According to the job posting, the board will include people who did not attend one of the four military schools in Canada and who do not have a strong opinion on the future of military education.
The board will examine the academic, military and bilingual programs the colleges offer, as well as their governance, funding and infrastructure.
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Read MoreGermany unveils first ever National Security Strategy
Document reflects growing focus on security over economy
Contains strong criticism of China but does not mention Taiwan
Implementation could be hampered by lack of Security Council
BERLIN, June 14 (Reuters) – China poses a growing threat to global security, Germany said in its first national security strategy on Wednesday, underscoring Berlin’s shift in emphasis from economic interests to geopolitics following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
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