Port Coquitlam Mayor Brad West claims the Chinese Communist Party aimed to unseat him in the Oct. 15, 2022, municipal election by trying to run its own candidate.
Brad West, elected for a second term last October, believes Canada needs a full public inquiry, a national registry of foreign agents, and to “kick” people with confirmed involvement out of the country.
“This gets to a real fundamental question about our democracy, about Canadians being able to have confidence and trust in the people who they elect,” he told Global News on Friday. “This idea that we’re just so weak in our response, and in our own country, we don’t have the ability to stop these activities from happening and deport the individuals who are engaged in them, is really, really poor.”West’s criticism comes days afterpublished his claims that the Chinese Communist Party aimed to unseat him in the Oct. 15, 2022, municipal election by trying to run its own candidate.
At the September 2019 reception, West joined about a dozen protesters in delivering a symbolic “care package” of Tim Hortons doughnuts. Pictures of Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor — two Canadians detained in China at the time — were attached to the box of treats. In his interview with Global News, West described the cocktail party as an event where Beijing pays the UBCM for access to local mayors and city councillors — “completely wrong, not only because at that time two of our fellow Canadian citizens were being held hostage by the Chinese government and subject to God knows , but also because of the simple belief that elected officials should be working for the citizens of this country and nobody else.
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