The Hub - ‘Elite capture’ may be a bigger problem than the Chinese government’s intimidation tactics, experts warn

“Elite capture, I think it’s a significant problem in this country",...

“It’s a problem in terms of the Laurentian elite, the political, economic, and social consensus between Toronto, Ottawa, and Montreal. Look at the key cabinet ministers, they all come from that triangle.”

https://thehub.ca/2023-06-02/elite-capture-may-be-a-bigger-problem-than-the-chinese-governments-intimidation-tactics-experts-warn/

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"Mr. O’Toole said CSIS told him that the Chinese Communist Party, using Beijing’s United Front Work Department, paid funds to create “specific products of misinformation on me as a member of Parliament and leader of the Conservative Party of Canada.”"

And yet #DavidJohnston had already completed his report when he interviewed Erin O'Toole and submitted it for translation into French.

Right, nothing to see here at all.....

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-erin-otoole-says-csis-outlined-voter-suppression-and-misinformation/?

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Global News BC: NDP’s Jenny Kwan says CSIS revealed China is targeting her https://globalnews.ca/news/9730556/jenny-kwan-csis-chinese-interference/ #globalnews #britishcolumbia #news #jennykwanchineseinterference #electioninterference #2019federalelection #2021federalelection #Chineseinterference #foreigninterference #ElectionIntegrity #jennykwantargeted #DavidJohnston #MichaelChong #ErinO'Toole #JennyKwan #Politics #Canada #World #CSIS #NDP

Angus Reid Institute - Election Interference: Canadians tilt towards calling for a public inquiry; majority call government response ‘evasive’

"New data from the non-profit Angus Reid Institute finds Canadians leaning towards the view that the “special rapporteur” erred in judgment."

https://angusreid.org/justin-trudeau-david-johnston-china-election-interference-public-inquiry-poilievre/

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Terry Glavin for The National Post - David Johnston escapes inquiry into his own China dealings

"When he was awarded an honorary doctorate from Nanjing University in 2012, Johnston had already made more than a dozen visits to China. As president of the University of Waterloo, Johnston oversaw the establishment of one of China’s propaganda-and-espionage Confucius Institutes. He has met Xi Jinping several times..."

https://nationalpost.com/opinion/terry-glavin-david-johnston-escapes-inquiry-into-his-own-china-dealings

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Sean Speer: The unavoidable implication of the Johnston report: Canada is broken

"A government that can permit years of foreign interference in its democracy because it cannot figure out its email log-in is hardly one to trust to re-engineer the economy or much else for that matter."

https://thehub.ca/2023-05-24/sean-speer-the-unavoidable-implication-of-the-johnston-report-canada-truly-is-broken//

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The Tyee: Jenny Kwan’s Case for an Inquiry into China Election Interference Claims (in News) https://thetyee.ca/News/2023/03/30/Jenny-Kwan-Inquiry-China-Election-Interference/ #bcnews #TheTyee - via @tyee@mstdn.ca #CanadianSecurityIntelligenceService #ConservativeMPMichaelChong #PrimeMinisterJustinTrudeau #ForwardTogetherVancouver #VancouverEastMPJennyKwan #LouisHuangpediatrician #FriendshipCityprogram #VancouverMayorKenSim #Power&PoliticsCBC #Anti-Asianracism #Kaohsiung,Taiwan #DavidJohnston

“Johnston was appointed governor general in 2010 by then-Prime Minister Stephen Harper. He held that role until 2017.” #Rapporteur #Cdnpoli #DavidJohnston #Elections

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/david-johnston-special-rapporteur-election-interference-1.6779988

Melted & fused Compact Cassettes belonging to #volcanologist David Johnston, found by his colleagues after he was killed in the eruption of Mount Saint Helens (1980) as seen in the documentary Fire of Love (2022).

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