Authored by Mark Jeftovic through BombThrower.com,

Let’s discuss international interference in Canadian democracy – CCP version.

“We is not going to let any international entities that search to do hurt to Canada or Canadians, erode belief in our democratic establishments, or query the legitimacy of our democracy.”

— Invoice Blair, Minister of Public Security

Bombshell revelations over the weekend (though maybe not solely stunning) that the Chinese language Communist Get together actively interfered within the 2021 Federal Election in Canada to tip the scales in favour of one other Trudeau minority authorities and the defeat of sure Conservative Get together MPs who had been seen as essential of the Chinese language regime.

“China employed a complicated technique to disrupt Canada’s democracy within the 2021 federal election marketing campaign as Chinese language diplomats and their proxies backed the re-election of Justin Trudeau’s Liberals – however solely to a different minority authorities – and labored to defeat Conservative politicians thought of to be unfriendly to Beijing.”

The small print emerged in leaked CSIS paperwork which had been reported by the Globe and Mail.

Sarcastically, the opening quote from Invoice Blair was not about China interfering in a Canadian election. Blair mentioned that just about precisely a yr in the past, concerning the Canadian #FreedomConvoy. It was amongst quite a few claims made by the Trudeau Liberals , the NDP to vilify the truckers – and which had been endlessly repeated and amplified by the company press. All of which had been discovered to be false within the ensuing inquiry into Trudeau’s invocation of the Emergency Act on Feb 14, 2022.

The #FreedomConvoy myths perpetuated included:

• MYTH: The convoy was being funded by international entities looking for to “destabilize our democracy” and “fund terrorism”

  REALITY: Upon examination it was discovered that just about all funding to the convoy got here from Canadian residents (over 88%) and “a federal anti-terror company in an inside memo mentioned it noticed no proof hundreds of thousands raised by the Freedom Convoy had been supposed to bankroll terrorism”. That memo really got here out  three weeks earlier than the Emergency Act was invoked.

• MYTH: The Emergency Act was enacted in response to pleas from the Ottawa Police drive who feared an insurgency

• REALITY: In the course of the hearings  it emerged  that no person within the Ottawa Police, together with then-chief Peter Sloly nor his successor Steve Bell, requested Ottawa to invoke the act.

• MYTH: The convoy was an insurgency that violently occupied Ottawa, setting fireplace to condominium buildings, desecrating the Unknown Soldier Memorial statue, and sporting swastikas and accomplice flags.

• REALITY: The one who desecrated the Unknown Soldier memorial was “a lady [who] was not from Western Canada and had nothing to do with the convoy” police mentioned.

  The individuals who barricaded an condominium constructing door and had been trying to gentle a hearth turned out to even be locals (*cough* Antifa? *cough*) with no connection to the convoy.

  That one man with the accomplice flag and the one different man with the swastika turned out to be the one two folks on the protest sporting masks (the latter seemingly accompanied by an expert photographer). They had been run out of the realm by the opposite protesters. Hypothesis abounds that each had been brokers provocateurs, and one was named by a Freedom Convoy lawyer who accused a former Toronto Star supervisor and Liberal Get together publicist  – though there isn’t a point out of these allegations within the remaining report (the particular person named is suing the lawyer for defamation).

The record goes on. The ultimate report on the Emergencies Act Inquiry dropped over the weekend, and was a compendium of softballs and cherry-picked testimony. Whereas Invoice Blair is taking one other victory lap, saying the report finds the federal government was justified in invoking the act, the nuance is that it did so “reluctantly” and due to the failures in each degree of presidency and not as a result of the convoy itself posed a menace to our democracy.

But, Canadian leaders, like Jagmeet Singh, the junior companion in Canada’s ruling Liberal/Socialist coalition, pushed all of those myths and nonetheless routinely refers back to the protest as a international funded rebel that sought to overthrow the federal government and set up a fascist  dictatorship.

The convoy is occupying our nation’s capital.

Donald Trump and members of the Alt-right have endorsed them.

Overseas cash is financing them.

And, a acknowledged objective is to overthrow our democratically elected govt.

This can be a clear menace to our democracy.https://t.co/z3MxvU3Kww

— Jagmeet Singh (@theJagmeetSingh) February 7, 2022

Chinese language Interference must be the elephant within the room…

So given all of the hysteria from our federal leaders round international interference in our democracy, it’s wealthy that Canada’s personal intelligence equipment discovered that the ChiComms actually did intervene within the 2021 election – and so they put their thumb on the dimensions in favour Justin Trudeau.

Within the hours after the report emerged, Trudeau appeared dismissive,

“This isn’t a brand new phenomenon. That is one thing that nations all over the world have been grappling with for a very long time and Canada is not any exception.”

(The PM stopped in need of seizing the financial institution accounts of Chinese language nationals with ties to Beijing. )

All we’d like now could be for the CBC to reframe the CSIS findings as a “conspiracy idea” and we are able to get again to the hyper-normality that defines our age.

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