Trudeau's Canada: See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Speak no Evil

"This review [report published by the National Security and Intelligence Committee of Parliamentarians -- NSICOP] addresses federal, provincial, municipal politics. It addresses universities, boardroom tables, community associations, NGOs, right across the entirety of Canadian society."

"It's a good thing that Canadians are being exposed to the reality of foreign interference."

"Who was driving it? In what forms? What tactics? Where? How do we guard ourselves against this? How do we make ourselves resilient?"

MP David McGuinty, head, NSICOP

"[Ongoing public discussions about foreign interference are] essential [for Canadians."

"It ensures that we protect ourselves better against foreign interference and all other threats, which are numerous."

"We are, CSIS [Canadian Security and Intelligence Service] and partners, putting more resources and emphasis on this because we have seen the threat increasing in the last number of years, we have seen a number of actors coming at it much more aggressively and doing things that we had not seen before."

CSIS director David Vigneault

In the House of Commons, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre said MPs accused in a recent intelligence report of colluding with foreign governments should be named publicly 'so Canadians can judge.' CBC

According to an investigation conducted by a committee of parliamentarians verifying in fact the realities that Canada's intelligence agencies have been warning of for years, some Canadian Members of Parliament have "wittingly" collaborated with foreign powers. This revelation comes as no surprise to members of the public who keep abreast of news reportage, and should be of no surprise, but a justified degree of alarm to those parliamentarians for whom the very thought of such collaboration with foreign authorities seeking to destabilize Canadian society amounts to treason.

In the instance of playing a sinister silent hand in manipulating political situations it makes common sense to suspect some members of expatriate communities among whom most who arrived as immigrants to take up a new life elsewhere than in their home countries are loyal Canadian citizens finding themselves not too subtly coerced and manipulated by others who retain allegiance to their country of birth. Beijing and the Communist Party of China stand out as suspects in this global game of political mischief.

They are by no means the only country that commits to underhanded manipulation of events in countries where their former citizens have migrated, to be sure. In the case of India, which has also reached out to its former nationals who have taken up life in Canada, their concern is that hostility between the government of India and its Sikh population has settled down internally, while volatile anti-New Delhi, majority-Hindu authorities deplore Khalistani provocation and threats emanating from abroad.

And while parliamentarians are fixated on the outrage of possible secret collaboration between Canadian Members of Parliament and hostile interventions by foreign governments, there is an issue very much roiling Canadian society in its threatening divisiveness and clearly criminal slander that targets Canada's Jewish population, actively dominating the public sphere and destabilizing civility among ethnic-and-religious-rooted demographics. With greater immigration from the Middle East to Canada, 'Palestinians' have established a victimhood narrative linked to acute antisemitism.

 

 

Loud public demonstrations against Israel since the October 7 atrocities committed by the terrorist Hamas government of Gaza against Israeli citizens in a ghastly demonstration of sadistic savagery and the hostage-taking of hundreds of Jewish children, women and men have characterized the unspeakable acts of hateful depravity as joyful events of 'liberation' from 'occupiers' of Arab Palestinian land; which is to say the very existence of the State of Israel on its ancestral land that Palestinians claim as their own.

 

A woman holds a mask depicting the faces of Shiri Bibas and her sons Kfir and Ariel, Israelis who are being held hostage in the Gaza Strip by the Hamas terror group, during a protest demanding the release of the hostages from Hamas captivity, in Tel Aviv, Israel. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

Islamist functionaries from the Middle East acting for Iran and Qatar, funding their enterprise of Western democratic destabilization in the pursuit of demonizing Israel and threatening Jewish life anywhere it exists represent a dangerously sinister interference of foreign powers in Canadian social, cultural, political and religious values. Just as MPs and Senators are implicated in other instances of aiding foreign powers to destabilize Canada politically, the same can be said of elected and non-elected officials supporting the flood of antisemitism that has inundated Jewish life in Canada.

And just as the Liberal government of prime minister Justin Trudeau studiously avoided addressing the issues of interference by Beijing at every level of Canadian politics, academia and society, so too has it deliberately not noticed the marginalization of Jewish life in Canada, taking it from a place of loyal pride to one of degraded neglect as Jewish children are threatened by their Muslim counterparts at school, with school administrations loathe to intervene. And where Jewish parochial schools, synagogues, and social centres are shot at, fire-bombed, graffitied, and assailed by slanderous protesters.

 

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, pictured at D-Day celebrations in France, is under pressure back home to respond to the latest turn in a foreign interference scandal. | Pool photo by Jordan Pettitt

"Those that are seeking to undermine public confidence in our democracies would be quite pleased with the discussion that's taking place in a partisan context now about whether senator so-and-so, or MP so-and-so was in fact the person who did something [targeting Canada's democracy]."

"To take a raw piece of information that may come from one uncorroborated source and pretend that should judge a particular parliamentarian's service to the country is in my view, extremely dangerous."

"The naming and shaming is, I think, a dangerous concept for us to embark on. It's not something that this [Trudeau-Liberal] government will do."

Public Safety Minister Dominic LeBlanc

A pro-Palestine march gathers in a Toronto intersection. Photo by Chris Young /THE CANADIAN PRESS