Canada, and especially Vancouver, has become a “global node” of the Chinese Communist Party’s efforts to infiltrate democratic societies, according to investigative journalist and author Sam Cooper. Cooper, whose new book “Wilful Blindness: How a Network of Narcos, Tycoons and CCP Agents Infiltrated the West” was released in May, says the CCP pursues its goal “through purchases of real estate, through efforts to get into technology companies in Western nations, through the usage of tycoons, industrialists that travel the world, playing baccarat.” In his book, Cooper reveals how the CCP has been making use of organized crime in Canada to control Chinese-Canadian communities, intimidate and silence dissidents, and cover up the spread of the CCP virus, the novel coronavirus that caused the global COVID-19 pandemic. The book uncovers the CCP’s link to criminal activity that has fuelled an opioid crisis while driving real estate costs so high as to be …