UFWD - United Front Work Department – is it the Fifth Column?

The second, more pernicious effect is to raise fears of an ethnic Chinese fifth column in democratic countries.

https://thediplomat.com/2019/09/fifth-column-fears-the-chinese-influence-campaign-in-the-united-states/

Canada - How the PRC infiltrates and Interferes

The United Front Work Department (UFWD) of the Chinese Communist Party is the most important and effective propaganda as well as a coercive tool for the PRC (People's Republic of China) to convert foreign nationals into CCP supporters and collaborators. It achieves such goals through rewards (e.g. money, sex, red-carpet treatments, privileges and sense of contribution or significance) and punishments (e.g., blackmailing, threats, and the withdrawal of funding or opportunities and denying access).

https://www.askpoliticiansccp.org/infiltration

Indeed, ambassadors seems to be a particularly common target for China’s influence operations. In January, John McCallum, Canada’s ambassador to China, was fired after having suggested to media that Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou should be released. McCallum was reportedly under Chinese influence. And Mikael Lindström, Sweden’s ambassador to China from 2006 to 2010, is today working as an adviser for the controversial Chinese telecom company Huawei, which is currently bidding for the expansion of Sweden’s 5G network.

https://thediplomat.com/2019/03/how-china-used-the-swedish-ambassador-to-threaten-angela-gui/

https://www.thestar.com/vancouver/2019/01/29/john-mccallum-fell-victim-to-beijings-influence-campaign-say-former-ambassadors.html

More about UFWD

https://jamestown.org/program/united-front-work-department-magic-weapon-home-abroad/

https://international.thenewslens.com/article/75278

>>10368492 - It is evident that this scandal is a conflict of interest as well as money laundering/pay to play. Trudeau's wife, mother and brother have all been paid by this charity.

WE.Org

https://www.we.org/en-CA/our-work/we-villages/countries-we-work-in/china