What is this government doing to protect Canada’s sovereignty against China?
Charles Burton is a senior fellow at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute, non-resident senior fellow of the European Values Center for Security Policy in Prague, and a former diplomat at Canada’s embassy in Beijing.
– which detail an extensive scheme meant to corrupt our elections and determine which political party forms Canada’s federal government, as well as the kind of power the elected government would be allowed to wield.
I spoke to that same committee about China’s massive program of influence-peddling, disinformation and coercion to suppress all voices in Canada critical of Beijing. Last year I sent the same committee a list of 18 reports and journal articles containing authoritative data on how the manipulation works in Canada and abroad.
This past weekend, however, Mr. Trudeau unequivocally stated that “the outcomes of the 2019 and the 2021 elections were determined by Canadians, and Canadians alone, at the voting booth.” This was an odd statement to make, however, since Canada is a secret-ballot democracy; we can’t tell exactly why people vote the way they vote, and so it seems impossible to actually know if Chinese influence was instrumental in certain political candidates losing their seats.
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