Canada’s visa application centre in Beijing run by Chinese police

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/world/article-canadas-visa-application-centre-in-beijing-run-by-chinese-police/

February 8, 2021

"Chinese police own a company that collects details of people applying for visas to Canada and numerous other countries, giving Beijing security services a direct stake in the processing of private information provided by people planning travel outside China.

Beijing Shuangxiong Foreign Service Company, which operates the Canadian visa-application centre in the Chinese capital, is owned by the Beijing Municipal Public Security Bureau, a Globe and Mail investigation has found. And at least some of the people working inside the centre are members of the Communist Party, recruited from a school that trains the next generation of party elite…."

Canada’s visa application centre in Beijing run by Chinese police

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/world/article-canadas-visa-application-centre-in-beijing-run-by-chinese-police/

February 8, 2021

"Chinese police own a company that collects details of people applying for visas to Canada and numerous other countries, giving Beijing security services a direct stake in the processing of private information provided by people planning travel outside China.

Beijing Shuangxiong Foreign Service Company, which operates the Canadian visa-application centre in the Chinese capital, is owned by the Beijing Municipal Public Security Bureau, a Globe and Mail investigation has found. And at least some of the people working inside the centre are members of the Communist Party, recruited from a school that trains the next generation of party elite…."

Libs want public 'distracted'

Dan Albas - Feb 11, 2021 / 6:00 am |

https://www.castanet.net/news/Dan-in-Ottawa/324721/Libs-want-public-distracted

"One of these released documents, an email, was quite alarming. A section of this email read:

“The rationale here is to present a new metric to distract somewhat from unattractive delivery numbers being reported. Hajdu goes into QP with these numbers, updated weekly, so we’re in safe territory”

This email related to challenges the federal Government was encountering at the time with the procurement of personal protective equipment (PPE). What's alarming is that knowing that media reports were not flattering, the response of the Liberal government was to deliberately manipulate the data to create a distraction…

…Global News has also obtained documents that they reported as:

“Senior political staffers from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s office and the office of another federal Liberal cabinet minister privately discussed how to withhold information from Canadians about the government’s response to the COVID-19 crisis last June, newly released emails show.”"

Emails reveal even some Liberals having trouble trusting Trudeau's pandemic plan

https://thepostmillennial.com/emails-reveal-even-some-liberals-having-trouble-trusting-trudeaus-pandemic-plan

February 11, 2021

"…according to Blacklock's Reporter…Liberal MP Dr. Marcus Powlowski wrote … "It is hard to have faith we are addressing the issue of procuring ventilators as soon as we have to, because I spoke to the owners of the two companies that actually make things in Canada," he wrote in a March 22 email to the Deputy Government House Leader.

"I am sorry if the party may be pissed off I actually talked to companies but I have reason to doubt preparedness," the email continued. "We should have moved on this over a month ago. Over the weekend nothing has happened. Sorry, pandemics don't take the weekend off."

"What can the relevant ministries tell me to reassure the health care workers that we are doing everything we can to get those masks?" he wrote on June 7.

The next day, Powlowski wrote: "Is there no one mass producing N95 masks yet in Canada?"

Dr. Powlowski, who served as a former consultant to the World Health Organization, also writes that the amount of red tape in the process had made things so non-transparent that it had become ineffective. …"

Liberals Are Trying to Price Independent Media Out of the Market

https://thenationaltelegraph.com/national/liberals-are-trying-to-price-independent-media-out-of-the-market

" … The inherent issue with what Guilbeault and the Liberals are doing is that the supposed group of “media entities” calling on them to act may not have the best interests of the whole industry in mind, especially for independent media. Two of the main backers of potential legislation is the media advocacy group Friends of Canadian Broadcasting (FCB), and News Media Canada (NMC), who are both on their face seemingly representative of the entire media industry. … The issues with NMC are less apparent right away, but by simply looking at the media companies that the members of the board are from it becomes obvious how that NMC is a Big Media group. … Effectively the Liberals and media “advocacy” groups could very well be boxing out smaller more niche publications in favour of mainstream publications like the CBC, or National Post that most users of Google News and Apple News would expect to be available. The Rebel, True North, Spencer Fernando, The National Telegraph, and Canadaland likely would not make the cut…"

They're eating their own…

Liberal MP says it is “hard to have faith” in government’s COVID-19 response

https://tnc.news/2021/02/15/liberal-mp-says-it-is-hard-to-have-faith-in-governments-covid-19-response/

"Liberal MP Marcus Powlowski complained that it is “hard to have faith” in the Trudeau government’s COVID-19 response. According to emails obtained by Blacklocks Reporter, the MP for Thunder Bay-Rainy River complained to staff and colleagues that the federal response to COVID-19 has been secretive, bureaucratic and haphazard. … Powlowski also wrote to the House Leader’s office on March 22, questioning the competence of the pandemic response. …"

Hotel California's got nothing on Trudeau…

Over 5,000 Canadians sent to secret COVID-19 facilities since pandemic began

By True North Wire -February 16, 2021

https://tnc.news/2021/02/16/over-5000-canadians-sent-to-secret-covid-19-facilities-since-pandemic-began/

"Over 5,000 Canadians have been forced into secretive holding facilities to isolate them since the pandemic began. According to records obtained by the National Post as of Jan. 24, 3,111 have been detained in government approved hotels in Ontario, 790 in Quebec and 719 in British Columbia, with hundreds more between the other provinces. … Last week, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau dismissed concerns about forced quarantines, claiming that people are not being detained. “I think it’s extremely important to make a clear distinction that these aren’t detentions; these are medically based isolations,” Trudeau said during his COVID-19 update press conference. …"

From the department of selective outrage…

Trudeau says genocide designation “extremely loaded” when it comes to Uyghurs

By True North Wire -February 16, 2021

https://tnc.news/2021/02/16/trudeau-says-genocide-designation-extremely-loaded-when-it-comes-to-uyghurs/

"Prime Minister Justin Trudeau refused to label China’s mass-internment of the Uyghurs a genocide on Tuesday. Trudeau called the designation “extremely loaded” and that it should be properly justified before being applied to the situation … The prime minister has been facing increased pressure from the official opposition and Uyghur rights groups to take a harder stance on China’s ongoing human rights abuses. … In 2019, following the tabling of a report into the disappearances of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls, Trudeau accepted the finding that the incidents amounted to an act of “genocide.” "