Commentary Governments are very privileged bodies. They are the only ones who can collect and spend taxpayer dollars. They are the only ones who can declare war. They change our lives in innumerable ways—some welcome and some not so. In short, they have a lot of power. Part of that power is the ability to…

Commentary The Liberal government finally expelled Chinese consulate official Zhao Wei last week when it became virtually impossible not to. With mounting evidence that Zhao had put the family of Conservative MP Michael Chong under surveillance in Hong Kong, even Prime Minister Justin Trudeau understood he needed to do something to indicate Canada’s official diplomatic…

A former officer with Canada’s spy agency says that individuals involved in the political process should have to declare they will not cooperate with a foreign power, adding that they should serve jail time if caught doing so. “Because we’re close to treason here, literally,” said Michel Juneau-Katsuya, former chief of the Asia-Pacific Unit within…

David Vigneault, the head of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS), has confirmed to Conservative MP Michael Chong that members of his family living in Hong Kong were targeted by the Chinese regime in 2021, according to a news report. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said in the House of Commons on May 2 that he spoke with…

Commentary  Conservative MP Michael Chong has every right to be “profoundly disappointed” to discover his family in Hong Kong was under surveillance by communist China and the Trudeau government did nothing about it. Another disconnect between Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS). Another example of incompetence, cowardice, and pusillanimity towards China—that country…

Every Canadian prime minister over the past 40 years has allegedly been compromised by agents working for the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), according to Michel Juneau-Katsuya, the former chief of the Asia-Pacific desk at the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS). Juneau-Katsuya made the comments during an interview with Canada’s CBC News on March 19 in response to revelations…

This week, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced that his government will appoint a special rapporteur to investigate allegations of China’s interference in Canadian elections. He also said that two organizations, namely the National Security and Intelligence Committee of Parliamentarians (NSICOP) and the National Security and Intelligence Review Agency (NSIRA), will be tasked with reviewing issues…

The Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) said it’s seeing the continued growth of foreign interference activities from state actors like China, a statement that follows a string of recent reports about Beijing’s interference in Canadian society and democratic systems. “CSIS continues to observe increasing foreign interference activity by state actors, including the People’s Republic of…

The federal government is “very concerned” that Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) documents were leaked to the press detailing Beijing’s election interference objectives in Canada’s 2021 federal election, says Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Trudeau was asked at a press conference in Halifax on Feb. 23 why he believes top-secret CSIS documents were being leaked to…

Commentary I’ll never forget July 18, 1983. It was my first day on the job at the Communications Security Establishment, Canada’s signals intelligence (SIGINT) agency. I was all of 22 years old, days out of an MA from Western University and ready to start my first full-time job as a translator at the Department of…