Sam Cooper
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Founder + J1 Bestselling Author. Award-winning investigative journalist, formerly with Postmedia and Global News. Email sam @thebureau .news
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EXCLUSIVE Investigation: Beijing calibrated it’s clandestine support for Justin Trudeau to influence the Meng and Michaels case
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#Breaking
: My investigation for Global News identifies that PM Justin Trudeau's senior aides were allegedly briefed by CSIS shortly before the October 2019 federal election, that candidate Han Dong, was suspected to be involved in PRC Foreign Interference.
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BREAKING: Liberal MP Han Dong secretly advised Chinese diplomat in 2021 to delay freeing Two Michaels: sources |
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Breaking news coming on Canadian intelligence warnings about election interference, stay tuned.
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Exclusive Investigation: Canadian intelligence briefs alleged that China's Toronto Consulate covertly funded a clandestine network of CCP-affiliated candidates in the 2019 federal election |
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All the big files coming out — CSIS uncovered Chinese plan to donate to Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation - The Globe and Mail
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Exclusive Investigation: Two high-level Foreign Interference memos warned Beijing covertly funded Canadian election candidates |
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I’m not insinuating the PMO of Trudeau has been subject of PRC interference. I’m asserting that credible sources say so and the evidence supports that. Happy Monday
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News alert! After 17 years working with The Province, Vancouver Sun and Global News, and publishing a best-selling book on foreign interference in Canada- with supporters, I have founded an independent investigative journalism platform, starting next week.
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BIG: NDP is proposing a public inquiry on foreign election interference, this will be moved tomorrow, "power to order and review all documents, including national security documents." This could split the NDP and Liberals.
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EXCLUSIVE: Billionaire Chinese oligarch Xiao Jianhua dealt with CCP elite‘s fortunes before he vanished from Hong Kong. We have traced an estimated $1.5 BILLION in TORONTO real estate developments to Xiao’s family empire National |
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Exclusive investigation: “Fake Chinese income” mortgages fuel Toronto Real Estate bubble, unprecedented banking leaks
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This is big, La Presse report is saying PMO's claims of wall between PMJT and the Trudeau Foundation, are unraveling. So if it is now confirmed this is a CCP donation, lots of implications.
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#Breaking
#exclusive
Ontario legislature member is part of alleged Beijing 2019 election-interference network: sources |
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Exclusive investigation: United Front groups in Canada helped Beijing stockpile coronavirus safety supplies ... investigation identified some PPE actors associated with organized crime suspects
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Feb. ‘23 “China appears to have targeted Justin Trudeau in a foreign influence operation after he became Liberal Leader in 2013, according to a national security source …The source said the Canadian Security Intelligence Service captured a conversation.”
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Breaking news coming on the Chinese election interference documents in Ottawa
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INCYMI - I’ve been investigating media and politicians in Canada, naming names, and will do so more. This report is being presented in Ottawa November 30th. US intelligence is concerned UF and Chinese Mafia have co opted some Canadian media and senior politicians.
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Exclusive breaking ‘Beijing’s control of media in Canada enabled election interference: CSIS documents’
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More emerging on the upheaval at Trudeau Foundation. La Presse citing sources alleging conflict of interest and lack of transparency from Foundation members that accepted massive PRC-linked cheque, now turns out name on it doesn’t look legitimate.
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According to national security sources, an elite politician hand-picked by Justin Trudeau, Liberal Minister Mary Ng, was identified in CSIS investigations as one of 11 Toronto-area candidates clandestinely supported by Chinese Consulate influence networks in the 2019 election.
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MP Chong becomes first sitting Parliamentarian to testify before US Congress
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Two GTA Canadian politicians — a Conservative Senator and a former Liberal MPP Minister — promised in a letter to the Chinese government to support “the great motherland”
@M_Johnston1
@1DanStanton
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Things that were known but powerfully reinforced this week. India is certainly interfering in Canada but it’s not even close, Beijing’s interference in Canadian elections and evident connectivity to the LPC especially, is off the scales. Russia is a fairly minimal player here.
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2. After my eight-month investigation, Global News can reveal new allegations emerging from the Canadian Security Intelligence Service’s ongoing probe into a Chinese Communist Party election-interference scheme.
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5. National security officials also allege that Han Dong, now a sitting MP re-elected in 2021, is 1 of at least 11 Toronto-area riding candidates supported by Beijing in 2019. These officials said CSIS also believes Dong is a witting affiliate in China’s election interference.
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4. CSIS investigators would later allege that Chinese Canadian seniors and students were bussed into the riding, and students were told they had to vote for a certain candidate to keep their student visas, sources informed Global News. They said Han Dong was the candidate.
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“In 2015, the PRC Consulate in Vancouver developed a plan to influence specific B.C. television stations to become ‘pro-China’ … cultivated relationships with ‘key editors, producers and high-ranking managers’ to exert influence over … their media outlets’
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This is one thing, the brazen lies, but all the Ottawa reporters that swallowed it is something I will always remember and hold in reserve.
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"Justin Trudeau said he was never briefed on the issue...two high-level national security reports before & after the 2019 election suggest they were warned that Chinese government officials were funnelling money to Canadian political candidates"
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Opinion: ‘In that moment, I knew he wanted me to lie.’ Jody Wilson-Raybould recalls a tension-filled meeting with Justin Trudeau /via
@globeandmail
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Fallout from a Globe and Mail February 2023 story citing a Single intelligence source referencing CSIS technical capture of a phone conversation with a PRC Consulate official allegedly arranging a donation from PRC tycoon to Trudeau Foundation
The president and board of the Pierre Elliott Trudeau foundation has resigned, blaming fallout from the 2016 donation with ties to the Chinese government.
"The circumstances created by the politicization of the Foundation have made it impossible to continue with the status quo"
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RCMP has confirmed national security units are investigating suspected Chinese police stations in Montreal. Notable to me is a few high level Chinese espionage investigations have occurred in this area, one involving US national security.
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Exclusive Investigation: Liberals ignored CSIS warning on 2019 candidate accused in Chinese interference probe: sources |
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The case that Justin Trudeau and his top aides intentionally covered up the influence of a former Canadian elected official who is a party kingmaker and UFWD fundraiser- and influenced CSIS to back off, gets stronger 👇
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Opinion: The Prime Minister launches an investigation into everything but his government, his party or himself /via
@globeandmail
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‘Three came from directors of the Tiger Arms Ltd. Port Coquitlam gun store, including its namesake Rongxiang “Tiger” Yuan, Ke “Kenny” Xiao of Richmond and Peiran Yang of Vancouver’
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8. We broke this story on Global National tonight and I will be digging into the implications on Sunday with
@MercedesGlobal
and former CSIS director Dick Fadden
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Important:👇there is a growing list of Canadian national security voices calling for independent inquiry into foreign interference + election interference. Allegations stem from investigations started in 2019 by the CSIS PRC desk in Toronto, which we 1st reported on Nov. 7 ‘22.
We must restore confidence in Canada’s democratic processes. We need an independent review of how we confront foreign interference. I agree with Dick Fadden that an independent inquiry may be the only way to remove partisanship from the review.
#cdnpoli
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3. According to my sources, CSIS started tracking Han Dong, a former Ontario MPP, in summer 2019. They said CSIS believed that Dong emerged suddenly and suspiciously as a successor to MP Geng Tan as the Liberal candidate for Don Valley North.
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On to new stories, here is the bottom line on the Lab story and it’s important these days people don’t get confused with partisan debate, and that reporters accurately parse PMJT responses in coming days.
1. An infiltration of egregious and international significance occurred.
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Getting some attention on Wall Street, not to mention from Pentagon and DEA types. Anyone that follows my work since 2017 knows that large scale money laundering and foreign interference are the same thing in Canada 👇
HSBC Whistleblower Claims Billions in Fraudulent Loans made to Chinese Citizens to purchase homes in Canada 🚨
These wire transfers from China were routed into bank accounts of “multiple, unrelated individuals in Canada,” that served as “money mules” in byzantine networks…
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So as I’ve thought for a long time - even though Canadian govt covered this up in ATIP releases, pretty obviously the CANSINO Covid vaccine was a very high level PLA corruption case, and I don’t know how people are not going to jail, lives were at stake
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They call it cash for access. Time to start asking if it is Cash-for-Influence.
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Canadian researcher is saying what some RCMP and CSIS sources have told me for a while. Ottawa has known about Chinese police stations and illegal Fox Hunts for years with no disruptive action until now.
RCMP knew throughout because I physically directed the organization to the compiled information by way of my TS security clearance application.
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Democracy Watch statement today, co-founder Duff Conacher says they will file a complaint with Ottawa's ethics commissioner alleging the Special Rapporteur has violated the Conflict of Interests Act, due to percieved ties to 'old friend' PMJT - also cites LPC donations.
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The political staffer in red scarf, standing next to confirmed intelligence handler Wei Zhao who was running GTA staffers for Toronto Consulate to get intelligence from Canadian politicians such as Mary Ng per my reporting. (Sourced from Canadian intelligence)
Open source diggers are really now putting faces to some of the network associates of ‘confirmed intelligence actor’ Wei Zhao - and asking good questions—and the politicians in these photos have questions to answer. Lawfare has a freeze on it but this isn’t going away.
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Ivison’s take: ‘One senior source told me last year he considers the Liberal party to be “a co-conspirator” with Beijing because it failed to act on information provided by the security agencies’
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Canada, save time for one story today that could reframe the next election.
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EXCLUSIVE : Secret police study finds crime networks could have laundered over $1 Billion through Vancouver homes in 2016
#FentanylinCanada
#vanre
#bcpoli
#canpoli
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I learned this file from the ground up by seeing organized crime associates in BC + Markham engaging Canadian politicians + lawyers in casino networks and with donations. No politician looking at this from 50,000 feet has any credibility on the file.
It’s a big smear. It would be very helpful for some reporters and columnists to dig for facts, ask hard questions and think these issues through, instead of just accepting CSIS leaks like they did in the Arar affair.
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TLDR: US intelligence and law enforcement are increasingly looking at Canadian politicians and Chinese gangsters and I’m glad my work is helping their visibility.
Today’s story was a good 50,000 foot overview of Canada’s vulnerability
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9. On our broadcast tonight I explained how CSIS believes former Ontario Liberal Trade Minister Michael Chan promoted Han Dong to take the riding nomination, and Michael Chan is a top target in ongoing CSIS investigations, according to sources with knowledge.
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Liberal MP accused of getting help from China skipped House votes condemning Beijing | National Post
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EXCLUSIVE INVESTIGATION: 2020 Privy Council Office intelligence report warned Trudeau government that China’s interference in Canadian elections will become "more persistent and pervasive in future elections"
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1. China’s Vancouver consulate interfered in 2022 municipal election, according to CSIS /via
@globeandmail
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Canada needs an inquiry into Chinese election interference: ex-spymaster - National |
@MercedesGlobal
@atRachelGilmore
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This is farcical but it’s also something I’ve been trying to educate media people about for a few years. The CCP is using our legal system and politicians to stop investigations of CCP interference. This is ‘Lawfare’ and we can’t make unethical lawyers rich on this garbage.
Lawfare Network
"Chinese groups in Montreal threaten to sue RCMP over ’secret police station’ allegations...will sue if the RCMP doesn't pay $2.5M in alleged damages and apologize within 15 days for confirming they were subjects of an investigation."
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Breaking: The site panel was alerted to CSIS allegations of significant financial transactions to allegedly benefit some candidates in an alleged Clandestine PRC network BEFORE the 2019 election but chose not to act or warn public, FIC hears
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Breaking: Erin O'Toole is speaking about his CSIS briefing regarding PRC alleged intelligence attacks on him, he says in relation to his actions as leader of the oppostion. This comes in the middle of the debate on removing Johnston as special reporter on PRC interference.
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Breaking down the Fake Chinese Income mortgage story with Steele and Vance, in Vancouver there is no question for me, foreign underground banking made this market absurdly unaffordable and evidence is Canadian banks support that illicit model
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It’s time for some Ottawa media and reporters accountability questions. I have started with Hill Times re: some of their PRC reporting, stay tuned.
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Three weeks before Canada’s 2019 federal election, national security officials allegedly gave an urgent, classified briefing to senior aides from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s office, warning them that one of their candidates was part of a Chinese foreign interference network.
Exclusive Investigation: Liberals ignored CSIS warning on 2019 candidate accused in Chinese interference probe: sources |
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BREAKING: Canadian foreign minister promises review after 5 border security contracts awarded to controversial Chinese-state tech company connected to CCP's elite leaders |
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Why are people surprised BC sometimes resembles Mexico, when Mexican cartels, Chinese Triads and Iranian state sponsored crime run big aspects of the economy. Guess who is working to get a Chinese financial institution approved too and how close to the Premier they are.
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ICYMI. Australian intelligence had the same signals info in 2017, but acted, Canada did not. — 2017 memo prepared for PM warns of Beijing election interference - National |
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I don’t do commentary really, I’m a fact digger. I agree with folks like Glavin, Gerson and Gurney who are looking at destabilizing radicals like this person Harsha Walia who got a pretty high level political advocacy position in BC. Remember, she cheered/incited church burnings.
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‘Following bombshell revelations by Global News, Conservatives will again demand that Justin Trudeau’s Chief of Staff, Katie Telford, appear before the House Procedure and House Affairs Committee (PROC) on the matter of CCP election interference.’
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TorontoTV has some footage of alleged CSIS target and LPC “kingmaker” Michael Chan at a LPC leader Justin Trudeau townhall rally in Markham in 2015
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Breaking: MP Michael Cooper asserts that MP Bob Saroya got a threatening 'cryptic' text message from a PRC official weeks before the 2021 election, informing Saroya he would not be relected. Telford asked if she had been briefed on this allegation. She says she can't answer that
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You may have noticed The Bureau’s reporting on PRC interference has become more direct and explicit with regards to PRC’s use of Asian Organized Crime in CCP Police Stations, funding of interference and strategic corruption targeting Canadian politicians and businesses. Thread 👇
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EXCLUSIVE: 2017 memo prepared for PM warns of Beijing election interference - National |
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In 2015, the year before real estate investor and RCMP target Tiger Yuan sent money to Trudeau’s riding association, the former member of China’s People’s Liberation Army made cash buy-ins totalling $4.19 million at River Rock in Richmond, according to BC Gaming Enforcement.
‘Three came from directors of the Tiger Arms Ltd. Port Coquitlam gun store, including its namesake Rongxiang “Tiger” Yuan, Ke “Kenny” Xiao of Richmond and Peiran Yang of Vancouver’
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As I reported on Global National tonight, I pressed the PMO, but they refused to acknowledge the Prime Minister's aides were briefed in late September 2019, that CSIS believed Han Dong was involved in PRC interference networks, along with Michael Chan, a CSIS target, per sources.
#Breaking
: My investigation for Global News identifies that PM Justin Trudeau's senior aides were allegedly briefed by CSIS shortly before the October 2019 federal election, that candidate Han Dong, was suspected to be involved in PRC Foreign Interference.
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Global News has learned the February 2020 secret PCO national security memo refers to at least 11 candidates targeted by China, only in the GREATER TORONTO AREA. Intelligence sources say this suggests PRC elxn interference well above only 11 candidates, if Canada-wide considered.
Exclusive: Ottawa hears of “active foreign interference network” in secret Privy Council Office memo |
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RCMP ‘actively investigating’ Chinese government police stations following arrests in U.S. |
@StewGlobal
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6. Dong strongly denies these allegations. "As a Member of Parliament, safeguarding Canada’s democratic institutions is a fundamental part of my job, and I take all serious allegations of foreign interference very seriously,” Dong said.
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13. Furthermore, two sources alleged, 2 weeks after the briefing, a Liberal Party staffer responsible for overseeing 25 GTA ridings, allegedly informed Dong’s team that the candidate was a CSIS target.
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12. But rather than heeding the alleged CSIS concerns about Dong, the party allowed him to proceed in 2019, and he won the seat.
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11. “CSIS was concerned that Han Dong was connected to People’s Republic of China foreign interference in Canada,” an official with knowledge of the brief told Global News. “And that Han Dong also was a close contact of Michael Chan, who was a target of CSIS.”
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Exclusive: B.C. politician breaks silence: China detained me, searched my gov’t Blackberry, PRC is increasingly interfering ‘in our democracy’ |
#cndpoli
#elxn44
@inamitchellfilm
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Stand by for a PRC interference exclusive I’ve been investigating for months
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Senator says RCMP must release evidence of alleged Chinese police stations in Canada by this logic why not ask csis to release active files on a number of Canadian politicians that are close to alleged station operators?
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“Even without anything like an official public inquiry into Beijing’s operations during the 2019 and 2021 federal elections, there’s already a surfeit of evidence suggesting collusion between Beijing’s proxies and Liberal party campaigners”
Terry Glavin: Trudeau's relationship with China far uglier than Trump's with Russia | National Post
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14. “This was a classified briefing of serious and extremely sensitive nature to Liberal Party of Canada senior staff who hold security clearances,” an intelligence official told me, in my investigation for Global News.
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I’m glad other media are following my investigation, here are a few important point, backward looking, on my files. It is “at least 11 candidates and 13 campaign staff in an alleged clandestine network, that worked together in loose coordination” according to CSIS ONTARIO probes.
I imagine Parliamentary Secretary
@PamDamoff
-- who’s “disappointed” Conservative MPs are demanding answers in the House of Commons -- will be equally disappointed with this front page!
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#cdnmedia
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18. Through sources and documents, which will be quoted in the following thread, I learned CSIS believes Michael Chan is allegedly an agent of Beijing who has secretly provided political information to the Toronto Consulate.
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16. Mr. Chan vehemently denies all allegations that he is an agent of Beijing involved in federal election interference. I learned though, CSIS has been watching Mr. Chan for over a decade, even taking interest in his expansive mansion in Markham, sources said.
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Folks I’ve been doing a lot on Foreign Interference. My top priority story right now is Canadian Banks.
@FINTRAC_Canada
@AlderLaneEggs
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This is a big advance in official acknowledgments for anyone following PRC interference, the Taiwanese govt disclosed sensitive intelligence findings today in response to Canadian journalist questions
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This is just untenable for Canada— I hear RCMP is making headway on the narcos/CCP police station targets in BC that donated to PMJT, it will be up to Ottawa bureaucrats to charge or not.
@derekmaltz_sr
@dasher8090
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7. “I am unaware of the claims provided to you by alleged sources, which contains seriously inaccurate information," Dong said, in answer to my questions in this investigation.
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Open source diggers are really now putting faces to some of the network associates of ‘confirmed intelligence actor’ Wei Zhao - and asking good questions—and the politicians in these photos have questions to answer. Lawfare has a freeze on it but this isn’t going away.
Call me cautious, but I’m wondering how a woman who is reported to have worked for the Consulate General of the PRC in Toronto for ten years ended up becoming an assistant to multiple Canadian politicians without this being flagged as a serious security risk.
Was she not vetted?
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Why this story matters: Sensitive Intelligence regarding an MP and politically connected Canadian must be signed off on by many in CSIS and likely Vigneault or seniors like himself. But he recalled the report not once but TWICE, 1st after PMJT advisor discussed in 19. 2nd Time…
Final File: CSIS Director recalled for Exam Friday on MP Han Dong intel recall and Trudeau-Vigneault meetings
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10 In the alleged briefing, the Service did not provide details of their ongoing investigations into Michael Chan and Han Dong, but outlined two major allegations to support their recommendation, sources aware of the intelligence said.
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I’ll take you inside my reporting process a few years ago with the Health Canada Winnipeg Lab cover-up. Notice how the questions align with what the Trudeau government fought against ultimately disclosing in most cases.
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First obtained by my former colleague Stewart Bell, the records show
@csiscanada
briefed and confirmed for Trudeau’s minister in February 2023 that China did intervene clandestinely in 2019 and 2021 and MPs were targeted and hostile states fund election interference/ nominations.
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15. Now some background on my investigation. Since last summer I have known that Michael Chan is a top target in the Service's high-profile, sensitive investigation into alleged CCP United Front Work Department election interference in Canada, according to intelligence sources.
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IMO it’s not the time to even think about a foreign intel agency or care about what PMJT advisor says on the matter. The problem within our own borders that includes compromise of politics and our internal institutions is so far out of control it needs to be fixed first.
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Canada MP Han Dong steps down over Chinese interference claims - BBC News
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1. Before the special reporter gets running down a narrow track of what ‘election interference’ is I think it would be important for Canadians to know the background of some of the operators that CSIS and RCMP investigations target, and how underground networks are involved.
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