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Canada’s new Governor General: “I am aware of the fear that an influx of foreigners will transform our social fabric in an undesirable way, but the reality is that our social fabric is changing anyways.” https://t.co/mzkkTzoYMA

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Unknown Speaker says: "I am aware of the fear that an influx of foreigners will transform our social fabric in an undesirable way. But the reality is that our social fabric is changing anyway in this increasingly interconnected world."
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Speaker 0: I am aware of the fear that an influx of foreigners will transform our social fabric in an undesirable way. But the reality is that our social fabric is changing anyway in this increasingly interconnected world.

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The Monk Debate on the global refugee crisis features four panelists with sharply differing views on who should be admitted, under what conditions, and what values should guide Western policy. The opening statements establish the core fault lines: support for the refugee convention and burden sharing versus skepticism about mass migration, security risks, and cultural impacts. Louise Arbour (supporting the resolution, “Give us your tired, your poor…”) argues that the lines written by Emma Lazarus on the Statue of Liberty capture the spirit and the letter of the 1951 Refugee Convention. The international framework obligates asylum for those fleeing political and other forms of persecution, with refugees not to be penalized for illegal entry or stay, and non-refoulement to prevent return to danger. Arbour emphasizes the heavy burden on countries at Europe’s borders and the need for international cooperation and burden sharing. She notes Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, Somalia, and Libya as contexts driving refugee flows, and points to neighboring hosts like Lebanon, Jordan, and Turkey hosting millions (she cites 4,500,000 Syrians) and to external borders of Europe. For Canada, she argues that geography creates a special obligation to provide a generous resettlement program and calls for smart, safe travel routes to undercut smugglers and for resources to meet the challenge. She acknowledges fears about social change but insists that social fabric is changing anyway in an interconnected world, and contends that the greatest threat to Western values is hypocrisy in defending them while acting contrary to them. She anticipates arguments about Muslims and security but rejects the idea that Muslims inherently threaten liberal democracy; she frames the issue as welcoming those who have come from elsewhere and will build an evolving, free Canada. Mark Stein (opposing the resolution), with Nigel Farage as his partner, frames the debate around distinguishing refugees from economic migrants and questions whether the waves reaching Europe reflect genuine asylum needs. Stein argues that many European arrivals are not refugees in the traditional sense, citing demographic distortions (in Europe, notably the predominance of young men among asylum applicants) and the potential threat to Western norms. He uses vivid examples of violent incidents attributed to migrants, including Cologne and broader concerns about sexual violence and public safety, to argue that migrant rights have, in his view, overtaken women’s rights and child protection in Europe. He asserts that liberal democracies are being transformed by a large influx of migrants from cultures with different women's rights norms, and he contends that Europe’s political elites, including Merkel, have broadened refugee definitions beyond classical standards. He advocates stricter processing mechanisms, better screening, and offshore processing to ensure that genuine refugees are identified, while opposing what he characterizes as an open-door policy that risks altering Western life. He also points to Christian and other persecuted groups in the Middle East, urging that those groups deserve protection, but he resists a blanket expansion of refugee status for all migrants. Nigel Farage (closing segment ally of Stein) pushes a similar line, arguing that Western leaders have misdefined refugees, with Merkel’s policy opening doors to large numbers who do not meet traditional refugee criteria. He criticizes the EU’s handling of the refugee influx, particularly the widening of the refugee definition by European Union mechanisms and the Turkey-EU deal, and he underscores security fears by citing the presence of jihadi fighters among asylum seekers and the threat of a “fifth column.” Farage contends that the public debate has been distorted by a belief in universal migrant rights and that there should be a robust processing system, with offshore processing and screening for genuine refugees, while prioritizing Christians and other persecuted minorities in the region. He argues that, in Europe, the combination of high levels of unfiltered migration and perceived threats to social order threatens Western civilization’s core values, calling for a more cautious, lawful approach to admissions. Simon Schama (providing measured counterpoints and bridging insight) emphasizes the humanitarian imperative and the historical role of liberal democracies in absorbing refugees, while warning against demonizing Muslims or treating migrant communities as an existential threat. He notes that 61% of asylum applications were in one dataset, challenging some exactly-referenced figures, and argues that the refugee crisis cannot be reduced to caricatures of “rape epidemics” or monolithic cultural blocs. Schama contends that a genuine pluralist society should engage with Muslim communities to counter extremism, citing examples of imams and scholars who denounce jihadism and defend a peaceful interpretation of faith. He stresses the need for screening and safe integration but cautions against inflating fears, pointing out that the solution requires addressing the root causes of conflict and supporting those who flee persecution. He also references Amnesty International’s report on Turkey’s treatment of Syrian refugees as a factor in reconsidering the EU-Turkey arrangement, and stresses the importance of preserving civil liberties and free speech within welcoming societies. Throughout the debate, the participants repeatedly return to central questions: What counts as a refugee under the 1951 Convention? How should wealthier nations share the burden? How can societies balance humanitarian commitments with security, integration, and the protection of women’s and minority rights? What is the role of Australia’s model versus European approaches? And how should Western democracies adapt their policies to confront both the humanitarian crisis and the threats posed by extremism, while preserving liberal values and the rule of law? The exchange closes with a reminder of the divergent impulses: welcome and protect genuine refugees, or implement stricter processing and integration measures to safeguard social cohesion and security. The audience's stance shifts over the course of the debate, reflecting the high stakes and complexity of the issue.
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Speaker 0: You don't know which of your facts will be demolished. Speaker 1: Russia's current leaders are not simply the political rulers of their nation. They are literally the country's owners. Speaker 0: You don't know which of your arguments will be totally destroyed. Speaker 2: I'm not prepared to sacrifice the African Continent for some free market neoliberal ideology. Speaker 3: And then you gotta come back, and you're now rattled. You're shaken up. Let's save the bleeding heart for somebody else. It's time Speaker 0: to change. And you don't Speaker 3: know what the hell to say, but you gotta say something. Speaker 4: I believe the twenty first century will belong to China because most centuries have belonged to China. Speaker 1: Blaming Barack Obama for the state that the world is in right now is like blaming a Caribbean island for a hurricane. Speaker 5: The lesson of North Korea has been if you're a third rate dysfunctional country that manages to acquire a couple of crude nuclear devices, you remain a third world dysfunctional country with a couple of crude nuclear devices. Speaker 2: Are you seriously saying, mister Trudeau, will you never be able to revoke citizenship from somebody? Is this a harm against this country? Individual in the question is a Canadian. You devalue the citizenship of every Canadian in this country. Thank you. Welcome to the Monk debate on the global refugee crisis. My name is Rudhyar Griffiths, and I have the privilege of organizing this semiannual debate series, and once again serving as your moderator. I want to begin tonight's proceedings by welcoming the North American wide TV audience that is tuning into this debate right now across Canada from coast to coast to coast on CPAC, Canada's public affairs channel, and across the Continental United States on C SPAN. It's the first time the Monk debates really again has been live throughout the continent of North America, and it's terrific to have that viewing audience joining us this evening. A warm hello also to our online audience. They're logging on to this debate right now on our website, www.monkdebates.com. It's great to have you as virtual participants in tonight's proceedings, and terrific to have readers of The Globe and Mail, our print media partner, joining us also online. We've got an online poll going tonight. Be sure to participate. Be sure to be part of our online interactive discussion. And finally, hello to you, the over 3,000 people who once again filled Roy Thompson Hall on a Friday night to capacity for yet another monk debate. All of us associated with the Oreo Foundation, we thank you for your support for the simple idea that this debate series is dedicated to. That's more and better public debate in the public square. So bravo, ladies and gentlemen. Thank you for being part of tonight's conversation. Now our ability, debate in and debate out year after year, to bring some of the world's sharpest minds and brightest thinkers here to the stage at Toronto's Roy Thompson Hall would not be possible without the generosity, the foresight, the creativity of our host tonight. Please join me in a warm appreciation of the Oreo Foundation and its founders, Peter and Melanie Monk. Bravo, guys. Well, the moment we've been waiting for. Let's get our two teams of debaters out here center stage and our debate underway. Our resolution taken from the inscription, the Statue Of Liberty. Be it resolved. Give us your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free. Please welcome our first speaker for the resolution. She's a former Canadian Supreme Court Justice, Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunals for Yugoslavia and Rwanda, and the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, among many other accomplishments. Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome Canada's Louise Arbour. So glad we could do this. Thank you. Now Louise's teammate is an internationally acclaimed historian, cultural commentator, and art critic, please welcome big thinker, Simon Shama. Thank you, Simon. Well, one great team of debaters deserves another. Speaking against the resolution, be it resolved, give us your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, is a renowned columnist, author, and conservative human rights activist, ladies and gentlemen, Mark Stein. Well, Mark's debating partner is the leader of UKIP, the United Kingdom Independence Party, and a member of the European Parliament. He's here tonight from The United Kingdom. Under his leadership, UKIP won almost 4,000,000 votes in the twenty fifteen national election in The U. K. Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome Nigel Farage. Okay. Before our debate begins, I need your help with just some last minute items. One, power up your smartphones. For those of you here, those watching online, we have a hashtag tonight, MonkDebate, MonkDebate. Let's make this the number one trending topic in North America. You can also take part in our rolling poll for those of you, again, watching online. We have a poll, www.monkdebates.com/vote. You can vote and participate in tonight's debate via the web. Now, our countdown clock, an invention we love at the Monk debates. It keeps us on time. It keeps us on schedule. It keeps our debaters on their toes. When you see these clocks reach their final moments, it should be we'll count down to zero. Join me in a round of applause, and that again will let our debaters know that their time is up. And, well, had Henry Kissinger. He didn't think his time was up. He kept talking. Thought he was being so brilliant. But I digress. I don't think any of our debaters will make the same mistake. Now this is a part I enjoy most. We asked all of you, 3,000 of you assembled, to vote on the resolution on your way in. You were asked, you support or oppose the motion be as be it resolved, give us your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to be free. Let's see if we've got those results for you to look at. Okay, 77% agree. 23% disagree. Now, to give a sense of how much this debate is in play, depending on what you hear during the debate, are Speaker 6: you open to changing your vote? Let's see that result. Wow, 79, 21. So this debate is very much in play. Either side can take it. Let's now go to our opening statements. I'd like six minutes on the clock for each of our debaters. Miss Arbour, your six minutes begins now. Thank you. Thank you very much. Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. The words of the motion that I'm here to support were written by a woman, Emma Lazarus, And these words are engraved on a famous statue representing a woman holding a torch and maybe, less noticeably, holding also the tablets of law with a broken chain at her feet. So it should come as no surprise to you that this has considerable appeal to me. But don't let that fool you. This is not a sentimental call for do gooders to unite nor a romantic projection of what the new world is going to be all about. Understood in today's term, it's a moving, poetic way of capturing both the spirit and the letter of the refugee convention. The nineteen fifty one refugee convention was written essentially because and for Europe, and it remains the framework within which a world purporting to be governed by the rule of law must deal with the current refugee crisis in Europe and must also stop turning a blind eye to equally pressing crises elsewhere, in South Sudan, for instance. This is part of the never again that the world screamed loud and clear after the Holocaust and betrayed on so many occasions since then, so today should not be one of those. I want to look at this issue both from a Canadian and from an international perspective. The international framework is very clear. Virtually all the countries that are concerned with the current flow of refugees fleeing war torn countries of Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, Somalia, Libya are parties to the refugee convention, and they are obligated to grant asylum to those fleeing political and other forms of persecution. The protection framework that is set in place by the convention provides that refugees should not be penalized for their illegal entry or stay in a country. The reverse would obviously be a way to completely emasculate the right of asylum. And the principle of non refulma precludes returning refugees to countries where they are at risk. This obviously puts a disproportionate demand on countries that are more easily reachable than others, such as in the case of Syria, the neighboring countries of Lebanon, Jordan, and Turkey, in which there are currently some 4,500,000 Syrian refugees, as well as the countries that are at the external borders of Greece, Italy, and so on. So this leads to another fundamental principle which underpins the refugee convention, that is the need for international cooperation in burden sharing. And I'm cautious here in using the word burden. This brings me to Canada. We often define ourselves by our geography. Once again, on this issue, our geography is relevant. The nature of our borders is such that we are virtually immune from a flow of asylum seekers arriving on our soil by land or sea, Although apparently, the result of the upcoming American elections may change that, but we'll cross that bridge when we get there. I believe that this puts on us a special obligation to provide for a generous resettlement program aiming both at welcoming refugees and at easing the burden on states who are struggling to live up to their international obligations. And I believe with true international cooperation in place, this is eminently feasible. And we should do it the smart way, by ensuring that asylum seekers can travel safely to places of refuge, thereby undercutting the smugglers, and by deploying extraordinary resources to meet this extraordinary challenge. I am aware of the fear that an influx of foreigners will transform our social fabric in an undesirable way. But the reality is that our social fabric is changing anyway in this increasingly interconnected world. We have a choice. We could look to the past and stagnate in isolation, or we can embrace a future in which our children will develop their own culture, fully open to that of others, inspired by the choices that we are making today. The greatest threat to Western values is not an influx of people who may not share them today. It's the hypocrisy of those claiming to protect these values and then repudiating them by their actions. I expect that we're going to hear tonight that Muslims are different, that they pose a unique, novel, and existential threat to our democracies. Not only has this been the ugly response to just about every wave of new immigrants in history, but ironically, it plays right into the hands of the violent jihadist groups that are attacking us. These violent groups have a political, not a religious agenda. They seek to destroy our democracies, not by infiltrating or taking over our institutions, but by letting us slowly self implode in response to the fear that risk turning us against ourselves, thereby destroying the very key features of our open society. We need to be smarter than that, and we need to welcome people who, like all of us, who came at some point from somewhere else, will build an ever evolving, free and strong Canada. Thank you very much. Speaker 2: Time's still on the clock. So, Mark Stein, you're up next. Your six minutes begins now. Speaker 7: Madam Haber described a refugee situation that is not what is happening in Europe at the moment. The great question before us tonight is whether the huddled masses on those teeming shores are really yearning to breathe free, or whether they're simply economic migrants who want to avail themselves of the comforts of advanced societies. As we all would, there are 3,000 people here in Roy Thompson Hall, and it would be nice if everyone in Toronto could be in Roy Thompson Hall. But if everyone in Toronto moves into Roy Thompson Hall, it isn't Roy Thompson Hall anymore. And that's the situation that is faced in Europe today. The people who have entered Europe are not refugees as that term has traditionally been understood, and as Madame Arbour explained in terms of the Geneva Convention. In 2015, in Europe, men represented 77% of the asylum applications. That's an extraordinary population deformation. In most civil wars, this is the demographic that would be back home fighting for their country. It's as if during the American Revolution, General Washington and the rest of the chaps had gone off to France and left Martha and the other women and children back home to fend for themselves. What does it mean to breathe free? Under the Taliban, it's illegal for madam Arbour to feel sunlight on her face. It's literally a crime for her to, quote, breathe free. She can breathe only through a mask approved by the man who in effect owns her. So what happens when you put a man from that kind of society in, say, a Scandinavian town? Northern Europe has enjoyed a culture of mixed public bathing since the nineteenth century, but a benign social activity to Germans and Scandinavians is something entirely different to men from a culture where women are chattels. So female patrons of public baths are now routinely assaulted, and in January, Sweden's national swimming arena was forced for the first time to segregate men and women in the hot tubs. So goodbye to a century old tradition. Migrant rights trump your culture. Our response is, oh, they come from a different culture. They don't know that you're not meant to grope women's breasts. So in Germany, they put up pictograms with a breast and a groping hand and a red x through it. Last month last month, a mere fortnight after acing a training course on how to treat women with respect, a 15 year old Afghan dragged a caterer at a Belgian refugee center into the basement and raped her. Well, we'll fine tune the course on treating women with respect. We'll get better pictograms. But in the meantime, migrant rights trump women's rights. Madame Arbour was the first prosecutor ever to charge rape as a crime against humanity. In 2007, she published an important report on the use of rape in Sudan as a weapon of war. It was a distressing report. She documented 15 individual cases of sexual assault, including rape, and victims as young as 14. If Madame Arbour were to publish a similar report on Germany today, she'd be able to cite more than 500 cases from just one night in just one town, Cologne on New Year's Eve, and victims as young as three, three years old, a three year old raped by a migrant. A seven year old girl was gang raped by five migrants in Hamburg just a few days ago. On Wednesday, a school girl was gang raped on the ferry from Sweden to Finland. Migrant rights now trump children's rights. What a pity Madame Arbour's successor at the UN isn't interested in producing a report on that rape epidemic. The police chief of Vienna has advised women that it's no longer safe to go out unaccompanied. Migrant rights trump the right to freedom of movement. It's easy to shrug, oh, well, it's just a few disabled kids, just anecdotes. So forget the anecdotes and run the numbers. In Europe, with unaccompanied minors, ninety percent are male, which means that in one year, Swedish adolescents now have a more distorted sex differential than China does after thirty years of its totalitarian one child policy. In China, there are 119 boys for every girl. Among Swedish adolescents, just from the last year's importation, it is now 123 boys for every girl. That's a fact, a fact of life, and I hope tonight we'll put aside the sentimentalism that often attends this subject and stick with the facts. Madame Arbour said some things that I agree with. She said recently, why are we always talking about the danger that these people will transform us? They may transform us for the better. So she and I agree that immigration on this scale is transformative. The only difference is that Madame Arbour thinks it's for the better, and I don't. And I'm genuinely curious to know what aspects of Afghan, and Syrian, and Sudanese culture that she would like us to be transformed by. Women's rights, fast track justice whereby gays get thrown off rooftops, polygamy, child rides, clitoridectomies, the bracing commitment to free speech. I would like an answer on that from Madame Arbour tonight. Thank you very much. Speaker 2: Simon Sharma, over to you. Well, I want Speaker 3: to start by saying, oh, Canada, your borders are safe. I can tell you why, because actually, I was asked this morning at Toronto Airport what I was doing here, and I said, well, I've come to talk about refugees and migrants. I was immediately taken off for secondary screening, actually. Yeah. So it's not only dangerous to talk about this, it's dangerous to be known to be talking about it. Look, those lines are written by Emma Lazarus. She was a Sephardi Jewess. She was a wealthy woman in New York, and she wrote them in 1883 after looking at the victims of Russian pogroms who come to America having suffered horrendous atrocities committed against them in Kishinov and Odessa and Elizabeth O'Grat and saw them on on Ward's Island. I shouldn't make a distinction between economic migrants. By the way, your number is wrong. It's not 77%. We know from United Nations agencies and the Pew, it's 61%, and that's a significant. This is an uninterrupted moment. We'll have revival time afterwards. I know radio hosts don't usually like that, but that's the case. She did that because, actually, when you are fleeing from a place of cruelty and atrocity, Your house has been blown up. Your whole possibility of livelihood has been taken away from you. Your children have no food, no medicine. What are you exactly? You're you're terrifyingly running away from catastrophe, and the vast numbers of Syrians who displaced, 4,000,000 of them, internally displaced as those who are escaping the hell of Libya and Somalia and Afghanistan are fleeing exactly the monsters of Islamofascism that Mark accurately describes. They are not their friends. Speaker 2: They are Speaker 3: not their secret co conspirators. They are horrified. They're trying to get away from that from that culture. Now Speaker 2: it it it's fine Speaker 3: to say, well, in those days, and as the, you know, the reason actually why the lines from Emma Lazarus' New Colossus were not immediately put on the Statue Of Liberty, they were only put there in 1903 as a result of the efforts of her friend, Georgina Skyler, was because at that very time, there was a ferocious agitation on the part of something called the Immigration Restriction League and its British equivalent called the League of British Brothers, all of whom said the unwashed, the filthy, those who do not share our language, our religion, our values, are about to destroy the the white race. Madison Grant wrote a book called The Suicide of the White Race. Tom Watson, the populist, described the millions of distressed as the scum, the scum of creation. Nonetheless, The United States, as an honor to its tradition, set out in Krevka's What is an American? In 1782, admitted 5,000,000 of those refugees between 1880 and 1890. And the argument will be made that, well, in those days, democracy was more confident. I agree with you absolutely about that. It was. It was more articulate. It was less defensive. It was more forthright. And besides, people coming from Eastern Europe or Central Europe did not bear democracy the grudge. They didn't want to overthrow it. Yes. They did. Yes. They did. Those teeming millions that Emma Lazarus emotionally described were full of anarchists and communists dedicated to the overthrow of capitalism, but liberal capitalism was strong enough to let them in anyway. And as a result, the American Republic and Great Britain thrived and flourished and prospered, and my own grandparents were among those who had Britain to thank for that more expansive view of what democracy could accommodate. We're talking about a drop in the ocean, really, now. There are 1,000,000,000 of us in Europe and Canada and The United States. We're talking about 20,000 being admitted to Britain. We're talking about a 100,000 refugees in The United States proposed by the president, of whom only 25,000 will come from Syria. The issue is, are they all kind of ravening sexual monsters of Mark Stein's x rated horror with you know, Muslims are not all Salafists. You know they're not all Salafists. Not actually all Salafists are jihadists either. They're our quietest Salafists. Do Salafist jihadists pose a mortal threat? You bet your life they do. There is a real war of that kind going on. But what do we do to actually resist the poison of apocalyptic millenarians? The answer is not to demonize all of Muslims, but actually to engage with them. We say, well, who are we engaging with? There are no Muslims who really want to stand up. That is not true. After the attack, both in Paris and Brussels, a 150 imams, actually, in Europe, got up and made a statement of the abhorrence of the act. There are even Koranic scholars, the greatest of whom is Javed Ahmed Hamidi. If you don't know his work, look it up, who is absolutely dedicated to denouncing jihadism as a perversion of the Koran. And I just want to say that it can't possibly be true that you you can't have a pluralist Muslim adoption of Western norms. In Britain, Nigel, we've lived with that for years and years before jihadism became the monstrosity that it is now. My green rosa is a Kurdish Muslim. You turn on the radio in the morning, and you hear Raisa Iqbal for the BBC. My local news agent tells me when to look at the Jewish Chronicle, and his name is Ahmed. Speaker 2: Ahmed. Speaker 4: Nigel. Well, thank you. Good evening, everybody. If we're gonna discuss the global refugee crisis, we better use the EU as a case study. But we must start by asking ourselves what is a refugee? Now I speak as a family of refugees. We were French Protestants being burned at the stake for our political opinions, something many in Westminster would perhaps like to bring back today, I'm sure. And I come from a country that is I think there is no country in Europe that these lectures about looking after refugees. The Brits have done it better than anybody else. We have done it with Jewish people. We have done it with Ugandan Asians. But what is a refugee? This 1951 convention that we have just talked about earlier. It is a person with a well founded fear of persecution because of their race, religion, political opinions or orientation who are outside their own country and fear returning to it. Now look, I know it is tempting to support this motion. It sounds wonderful. Give us your poor, your weak, your huddled masses and in doing so, we can perhaps feel a sense of our own moral superiority. But just look where that idea has got the EU in the course of the last year. Jean Claude Juncker, the unelected European Commission president who, I have to say, after a good lunch is rather fun to be with, Particularly if I would be with him actually. But Junker has changed the definition of what a refugee is to include people who come from war torn areas and given that the UNHCR say there are currently 59,000,000 people displaced in the world that is quite a big number. But Junker has taken it even broader. He said to be qualified as a European refugee if you come from extreme poverty And that would mean perhaps 3,000,000,000 people could possibly come to Europe. All of this of course was massively compounded by Chancellor Merkel who effectively did say give us your weak and your poor and your huddled masses in what I think has proved to be the worst foreign policy decision in Europe since 1945. Because her moral superiority was, in my view, based on still a level of war guilt that exists in Germany. But she opened up the doors, and a million people came in last year. But virtually none of them would qualify as refugees on any classical definition. And in fact most of them that came were somewhat aggressive young males who when they arrived and got through the border punched the air and chanted rather like football supporters. I remember as a young man watching the BBC and seeing Ugandan Asians landing on the tarmac at Heathrow, humble, thankful, and promising that they would repay the debt Britain had shown them by integrating and becoming part of our society. Sadly, that is not what has happened, And there is nobody on this side of the argument trying to say that Islam is bad or all Muslims are bad. We are not saying that. But what we are saying is that if you allow a very large number of young males to come to European countries, and if they come from a culture where women are at best second class citizens, do not be surprised to see the abominations such as that we saw outside Cologne's train station on New Year's Eve. And do not be surprised that the formerly rather sleepy Swedish city of Malmo has now become the rape capital of Europe. But that is as nothing compared to what the boss of Europol said three weeks ago. He said there are now 5,000 jihadi fighters, every one of them potentially a terrorist, that have got back into Europe through the Greek islands posing as migrants. When ISIS say they will use the migrant routes to destroy the civilisation of Europe, I suggest we start to take them seriously. And the difference between what is going on now and any other either migratory wave or refugee wave in the history of mankind that I can see is that never before have we had a fifth column, albeit a small one thank God, but a fifth column living within our communities that hates us, wants to kill us and wants to overturn our complete way of life. I believe that we in the West should give people refugee status and throughout this whole tragedy of what has gone on in the Middle East and North Africa, not one person in serious level of politics has dared to speak up for the Christians. The Christians in Iraq and the Christians in Syria who are now only 10% of what they were just a few years ago. They qualify for refugee status because they are being persecuted for who they are. We have to oppose this motion. This motion at best is impractical and at worst poses a threat to our entire way of life. I want us to have a proper processing mechanism. I want us to do all the things we have done, as Brits particularly over centuries. I want us to welcome genuine refugees, not the disaster that is engulfing much of Europe today. Thank you. Speaker 2: Very strong, opening statements from the group, so thank you. We're now going to go into timed rebuttals so we can get some quick reaction from each team. Miss Arbour, we'll put two minutes on the clock for you. Give us your reaction to what you've heard from the other side. Speaker 6: Alright. Two issues. First of all, on the definition of refugees. I think in the current climate of warfare, the current state of armed conflict, in my opinion, virtually every civilian in a war theater that is not a combatant qualifies for refugee protection unless he is excluded by the convention as a war criminal. And the reality of it is that the protection of civilians currently in armed conflict is nonexistent. They are targeted by all sides, and therefore, I think for the most part, they qualify for refugee protection. Now, the suggestion that what we see these waves of young men coming into Europe are all economic migrants, frankly, it's hard to believe why these economic migrants would have paid thousands of dollars for the privilege of drowning in the Mediterranean, but that's another issue. Let me just address very briefly, and I hope we'll have an opportunity to return to that, to the issues raised by these newborn feminists there. And I see the clock running, so I reserve my right to flesh out these ideas a little more deeply, but I can assure you that for those of us, feminists, who came, certainly the women of my generation, from a cultural, political environment in this country in which religion dictated most of our rights and privileges, we've managed to start occupying our place in public life, not by pushing and trying to exclude others, and certainly not by espousing as champions people who have that kind of ideology. Thank you. Speaker 2: Okay. I want to hear from the the protein back to back. So, Simon, let's have your rebuttal, and then I'll come on to Mark and Nigel. Speaker 3: Okay. Yeah. I was just struck by how obsessed with sex these two guys are actually. It's a bit sad, really, actually. Again, I just want to make the point that if you really think about actually the places, from Afghanistan, for example, or Libya, or, of course, Syria, where most of the migrants are coming from, actually. It's it's extraordinary to think that they're really just interested in a moment of possible upward social mobility. Those are all desperately brutalized collapsing states from you know, it it it's it to me from which, actually, there seemed to be no possibility of normal life. It's very it it and the notion that first of all, I I dispute those figures about, actually, the the 77%, as I say. And it seems to me, if you are actually a family in terrible distress, and haven't we all seen, as Louise mentioned, dinghies and rubber crafts full of children as well as, you know, with their elder brothers and fathers. So families are desperately trying to make it, often at the cost of their own lives. But supposing, actually, most of the people, you know, who are coming over, more than half are males, And this fits with the fact that more than half of those in displaced horrible camps like Atmar, where there are 58,000 people stuck there in Syria with desperate shortages, no sanitation, shortages of food and medicine. It'd be logical to send your brothers and uncles and the men to see that's that's how it was actually in the eighties eighteen eighties and nineteen nineties. And all of those men arriving weren't arriving with the purpose of upping their their rape score either. Speaker 2: Simon, we're gonna have lots of time in the, cross examination to get into these issues, but I want to come over to the other side and Mark Stein get, your quick reaction to what you've heard. Speaker 7: I I made a decision tonight, that I wasn't I wasn't gonna do funny stuff. I was gonna be deadly serious. And I'm I'm slightly amazed at our colleague's ability to get big laughs on gang rape. Madame Arbour scoffs at the newfound feminists over here. I'm not I'm not much of a feminist, but I draw the line at the at the three year old getting raped and the seven year old getting gang raped in a basement. And when Simon when Simon tells us that, oh, we're funnily enough, we're all obsessed and sick. Maybe we don't get enough action in the Toronto singles bars. Madame Arbour Madame Arbour, as she said, is a feminist of a certain generation. And those feminists were very clear, as Madame Arbour was very clear in Sudan, that rape is not about sex, whatever Simon may say. Rape is about power, which is what Madame Arbour says. And we're not talking we're not talking about the kind of sex I want to have. I ain't into three year old girls. But the 14 year old girl in Sudan. Here's a random example from ten days of German migrant crimes in January. 16 year old boy raped inside Wolfsburg City Hall. 13 year old girl sexually assaulted near a railway station in Elvargen. Three girls sexually assaulted at a swimming pool in Aernsbach. 15 year old girl raped at a railway station in Wuppertal. Attempted gang rape of a 13 year old girl in Gelsenkirchen. I can go on and on. These are all rapes, gang rapes in public places. Trains, streets, parks, and even city hall. And I congratulate you on getting big laughs with that, Simon, and you, Louise. Because if I'd known that, I'd be doing open night, Mike, on gang rape at a comedy club. It isn't funny. It isn't funny. Speaker 2: Okay. We'll be able to get into this later. Your time Speaker 3: is up. It gets to the heart Speaker 2: of the question. You're going have to sit down. Gets to the heart of the question. The moderated cross examination. And gentlemen, this is gonna be harder than the election debate. I thought that was tough, but this this is gonna be Speaker 4: a real challenge. Nigel, you're up next for your rebuttal. Thank you. What Mark has just said is difficult to listen to, and we'd all rather pretend it isn't happening. But sadly, it is happening. Simon, you are in denial. Tell you what is sad. I tell you what is sad. What is sad and you know as an historian is that a hundred years ago, the women went into the factories, earned their first decent pay packets, went to the pub, got the vote. We have lived through a hundred years of female liberation and emancipation and now we have the mayors of towns in Germany and in Sweden and in other parts of Northern Europe telling women not to walk out after dark on their own and in the wake of the Cologne sex attacks, the mayor of Cologne said to those women they really ought to dress differently and behave differently in public. That Simon is what is sad and actually I find the sheer hypocrisy of those of you that have stood up and said you are going to defend female rights when actually you think migrant rights are more important than female rights in our own community. Frankly, shame on you. And Louise, Louise, you are trying to redefine the nineteen fifty one convention on refugee status. But can I just challenge you to something? Maybe, just maybe, you would agree with me that the Australians when they faced a similar problem of people coming in boats in large numbers of sinkings and drownings, maybe the Australians got it right when they said nobody will qualify as a refugee if they come through this route but we will process people offshore genuinely and sincerely, and if they are people who because of their race, religion, or political beliefs qualify as refugees, we in Australia will have them, wouldn't it make more sense, Louise, rather than having an open door to the Greek islands to process people in North Africa and The Middle East. Now Speaker 2: we are going to move on to our moderated portion discussion. We'll get into some of the issues that have been raised to date. It's been a a hot exchange so far, and I I wanna give, Louise and Simon an opportunity to respond to that, latest rebuttals we've heard. And, Louise, because you were mentioned last here by Nigel, let's have you respond first. And maybe specifically to this idea of whether Australia, very different than what's happening in Europe, is is a model that should be considered. Speaker 6: Yeah. Well, Nigel, it will come as no surprise to you that I can't think of much that I would agree with you on tonight. This is not one of them. Australia is hardly a model of compliance with the refugee convention. I mentioned before, one of the key features of the refugee convention, and bear with me for a minute. Let's assume that we have a genuine asylum seeker, as opposed to a gang rapist. Just for the sake of argument, let's just start with a neutral proposition. Somebody's knocking on the door. The refugee convention assumes that this asylum seeker will have to flee his or her territory, probably by non legal means. That's why we have irregular people. They enter either with no documentation or through means because there are no open channels for these people to escape their predicament. The duty on the country of transit or destination is to have a fair and humane process to determine the bona fides of their refugee claim. And Australia exporting that responsibility in the same way actually that The United States, not on refugee issues, but is exporting to Mexico its processing of migrants who come from Latin America. This is not the way to do it. The way to do it is for countries to receive people on the assumption, actually, that they may very well be people fleeing persecution and have a fair process in their country, particularly rich countries, like ours, like Australia, like The US, who have full capacity to do that in a very decent, humane fashion, and unfortunately, that's not the example that Australia has set out. Speaker 4: But how can Greece cope with this? This is the point, isn't it? That actually what Greece I mean, you know, some people have gone to Italy and and, you know, I understand that, but actually, it's Greece that has faced just a vast number of people. There is no particular sign of it stopping. A so called deal, with Turkey has seen routes from Libya opening up again. Surely, point is that of the million people that came through the Greek islands last year and finished up settling in Germany, virtually none of them were properly processed, and not one of them was security screened. And I wonder, under the 1951 definition of refugee status, how many of that million that went to Germany last year would have qualified as refugees? Five percent? Ten per cent maximum? This is what I am saying, this whole debate, we are talking about the global refugee crisis. I do understand there are dreadful things happening in North Africa and The Middle East. What I am talking about is we broaden the definitions of what a refugee is to a level where we cannot accept, European countries will not accept numbers on this basis. 1,800,000 last year, it will be 1,800,000 this year and 1,800,000 next year and the people in the end simply won't accept it. Speaker 6: Nigel, there are 500,000,000 people in Europe. You think Europe doesn't have the it's not the lack of capacity, it's a lack of political will, in large part because the entire public debate is poisoned by the kind of discourse that we've heard about tonight. We're supposed to talk about refugees. We would. We would. Okay. Speaker 4: Actually, would of course, of course, there is room in our hearts for Europe, from all of Europe, to give people refugee status. We just want to know that they are genuine refugees and not people coming to do us harm. That's all we want Speaker 2: to know. I want to bring I want to bring Simon in on this, and then I'll come to you, Mark. Speaker 3: Well, I I actually don't disagree with you about the need for for better screening. I I I don't disagree with that at all. I just want to say, though, to to Mark's fulmination that it's an appalling slander to me to the Muslim religion to imply actually that well, it wasn't Speaker 7: I never I never said the word Muslim in my fulmination. It was a Muslim free fulmination. The assumption Speaker 3: what did you just say? I didn't hear that. I didn't hear that. I didn't hear what you said anyway. But, no, the implication was that if you've got a Muslim immigrant, he, and it's going to be he, is bound to commit a sexual crime sooner or later. That seems to be a monstrous and grotesque falsehood about Muslim communities that have been settled for a long time now in Britain and The United States. Dearborn, Michigan is not full. Dearborn, Michigan Speaker 7: I'll make I will give you a Muslim fulmination then. Muslims are about Muslim men are about one and a half to 2% of the population in Norway. They account for half of all the rape convictions in Oslo. There are differences here. There there are cultural differences. And I think if you think about Speaker 3: it What what is it about Islam that you're saying actually that actually is designed to make men Well, I'm not talking brutal sexual animals. I'm not talking And why then don't you want to deport all Muslims from Europe and the Western society? Speaker 7: Distinguish. I agree. You're a historian. You know as well as I do How many more Muslims, more Muslim men in the first and second world wars fought for king and empire than Canadians. Muslims have a long tradition of loyalty to the crown and service to the crown. They were getting Victoria Crosses for extraordinary courage on the battlefield a hundred years ago today during the great war. You know that. What has changed is that we are no longer importing someone who had been to a Muslim school in India in 1948, 1949 would have received an education not different by that much from a grade schooler in Canada or in I've Scotland Speaker 2: got to or anywhere tell you where you're going with this, because you're losing me. What's the point? Speaker 7: I'm saying I'm not I'm saying I'm just establishing my non Islamophobic bona Okay. You Speaker 2: can sit here. Speaker 7: But there is an issue. Yeah, Speaker 2: yeah. Let's move back onto refugees because this debate is about the refugee crisis. That's our focus tonight. There are other dimensions. We'll continue to get into them. But, Louise, I wanna come to you and pick up a little bit on what Mark and Nigel have been saying, which is certain societies are better at integrating people than others. Traditionally, Canada thinks that it's done a pretty good job. The United States is called the melting pot. European countries often are not very good at integration. Therefore, is this a different kind of crisis? Is this time different? Speaker 3: I think Europe has done and here we might have, I suspect and hope, a bit of agreement. I think Europe has done a pitiful job at forthrightly defending the virtues and moral decencies and political traditions of Western pluralist liberal capitalist democracy. Europe is essentially Oh, great. An organization managing the business cycle and hoping for the best when it comes to shopping for Christmas, and that is an abject surrender. If we are ever going to make any headway against militant apocalyptic Salafism, there has to be something to offer the refugee population, whether they're you know, wherever they come from, whether they're from South South Sahara Africa. And it it's as though that wasn't part of what we need to do. We need to be less defensive, less mute, less muffled. They should be reading Locke and Milton and Mill, And, you know, making that tradition as passionately important and a stake in citizenship is as important as screening and putting up walls and, you know, having decent counterterrorist intelligence. Don't know. Maybe agree. I agree with Speaker 4: you completely. We have been abject, pathetic. We've lain prostrate on the floor. We've allowed people to come in, change large parts of our communities, our cities, and nobody amongst our leadership. And this is not about getting religious in government, but no one's had the guts and the courage to stand up for our Christian culture Speaker 3: because I wanna hear I Speaker 0: happen Speaker 3: to be Jewish. Well There there was nothing Well, we come from. Speaker 0: You know? Speaker 4: Well, well, well, as you well know, as you well know, it is a Judeo Christian culture. And that Speaker 3: is our culture. There there is such a thing as Judeo Christian culture. Speaker 7: As soon as Speaker 3: I start Speaker 4: to talk about real values, you shrink into your shell like everybody else, don't you? We have our Judeo Christian culture. We have been gutless and weak in defending it, and and and but the real problem here is we can talk and we can look back at various migratory waves, various refugee waves, and the problem is this. Nobody Mark isn't suggesting that Islam is a bad religion. I'm certainly not suggesting that, but I am saying that what Wahhabism has done, funded by the Saudi Arabians Great. Has been a cancer within Islam. Absolutely. Agree. And, you know, the 1974 boom in the oil price has led to so much But of what we are all here is the problem, and here is why we are nervous and we are cautious about opening up our doors to untold millions of people from those countries. It is that never before integration may have been difficult, but never before have we had to live with the fifth column, living inside our own communities and our own country that want to kill us, blow us up, and change our way of life. And I am arguing for having a sensible refugee policy, but we must, must, must be able to screen people before they come to settle in our countries. Surely that is just plain common sense. Speaker 2: I am come to Louise on this point and then I go to you Mark. Speaker 6: Well, the first thing, again, we have to be very careful not to exaggerate. I think this is exactly the trap, is to exaggerate the sense of danger and fear that this idea of infiltration can generate. A couple of things. If we had assumed that most Italians coming to this country, for instance, would be members of the Mafia, or most Asians would be members of TRIADS, I've said that a million times, we would have closed the door. There is no basis upon which to suggest that the people who are fleeing the atrocious events in Syria, in Libya, to take these two in Northern Iraq and so on, that these people are missiles that are being sent to infiltrate our communities. You know what? It's going to be a lot easier, and I really believe that it's part of a very sophisticated strategic plan by those who are intent on destroying our democracies to tease us into an irrational response where we will destroy the very values we believe in. We will over securitize, and inevitably, we will use security measures in discriminatory fashion with carding and racial profiling and so on. Slowly, we will destroy our very values out of the sheer fear that they are coming in to do it for us. We're going to do it to ourselves if we cultivate this culture of fear with an overreaction, restriction on freedoms, over securitized, and targeting these vulnerable minorities rather than protecting them and including them. Speaker 2: Well, Speaker 7: we are we are getting to the to the meat of it now, and that the the question is, people talk about European values, British values, Canadian values, without ever defining it. And I think, you know, Simon is right that it's not just about car chase movies and rap songs and all the rest of it. There's something underlying it. I share entirely Louise's fears of the big security state, because I like to write and I like to say what I want. And my writing wound up in front of three human rights commissions in Canada. So I certainly don't want to see the Europeans erect a bigger security state with less free speech than Canada has. I would hate I would hate to see that. But the reality the reality of this situation is that if you look at what happened with the Charlie Hebdo slaughter in Paris a year ago, and then look at the polls of the Muslim communities afterwards, They don't wanna put a bullet in a cartoonist. They don't wanna blow up the Brussels airport, but there is no commitment to traditional western understanding of free speech. And as Simon says, we don't teach them it. We don't assimilate them. You have to have something to assimilate with, and if you don't, you have bicultural societies as you dealt with in Bosnia. Bicultural societies are always fundamentally unstable. Sometimes, more or less benignly so, like Northern Ireland, sometimes genocidally so, as Louise can tell you in Rwanda. But if you don't assimilate these people coming in in Europe, then you will have bicultural societies, and they will tear Europe apart. Speaker 6: Hold on. Mark, I assume it's been a long time since you've lived in Toronto. Is that a fair assumption? Have you seen street signs in languages you can't understand? This is the city we live in. We're not scared. Speaker 7: Don't this is a multi this is I I was born in I was born in Toronto. I've been away for a couple of years. You're from Quebec. You're from Quebec. So you know as well as I do that the differences between Quebec Francophones and Ontario Anglophones are fooling in the scheme of things. Yet, twenty years ago, a majority of your fellow Quebec Francophones voted that they didn't wanna be in the same country as these guys. And you're saying you're saying that somehow Speaker 6: Hear me about that. Speaker 7: You're you're saying that somehow in in in Germany or in Sweden or in or in Mollenby, the Islamic Emirate inside of the Kingdom Of Belgium, 25% of the population of Brussels is Muslim. You're you're trying to tell us that they will be more fundamentally stable and secure than Northern Ireland. Speaker 6: Well, I think the divisions in Belgium, they don't have to wait for anybody coming out of that country to have separatist tendencies. They have very home I lived in Belgium, in Brussels, for five years until recently, so they don't need anybody to come from any Stan to have identity My mom is Flemish. I know about that. Speaker 4: Well England is fairly united, I mean Scotland, not always, I would agree. But England is pretty united, but the point Mark is making is very interesting. We have actually got now within England the growth of a parallel society. 80% of Muslim marriages in Britain are not recognised under UK law. They are conducted under Muslim law, which of course gives the women far fewer rights than they would have under UK law. We now have 83 Sharia courts existing in England. We now have tens of thousands of cases of female genital mutilation taking place every single year in England, which we think of as a country perhaps not with as big a problems as some of the others, and yet there has not yet been one prosecution within our system. So Simon and I have got some degree of agreement on this, that the law has to be equal, applied equally to everybody. We must not be scared of applying the law equally to ethnic minorities. If we are, we're storing up massive problems for the future. But, Louise, I'm sorry. You're trying to compare some of the concerns that we've got on this side of the debate with previous migrations. It is not an exaggeration, the word you used, it is not an exaggeration unless you think the boss of Europol is wrong. Should we be concerned when he tells us there are 5,000 jihadists terrorists that have come into Europe in the last eighteen months through the Greek Islands posing as refugees. Should we be concerned? You bet your life we should be concerned. Only eight of them killed a 130 people in Paris. We have a problem here. Get out of denial, please. Yes. But Speaker 3: The deep problem is that jihadi cells exist. For example, the San Bernardino shooting was a case in point. The main shooter at San Bernardino was an American citizen. His wife had a green card. A very significant number of those who are actually carrying out these appallingly homicidal conspiracies are British and American and French and Belgians. Again, I think we're agreed that there's an appalling degree of criminal negligence, particularly the Belgian authorities, in not noticing when somebody's deported from Turkey to The Netherlands and is known as a terrorist, not actually picking that information up. But if you're going to do something about homegrown Salafist Jihadism, you have to engage with the Muslim community, not demonize it en masse. You actually have to welcome the work of the Quilliam Foundation. Yeah, well I do. You have to start from the assumption, not from the pessimistic assumption that all Muslim immigrants or refugees are necessarily going to constitute a fifth column, but the possibility at least that they can lead active, decent lives of of citizens. I don't disagree with you about the horror of genital mutilation and the onyx killings. Those should be prosecuted Speaker 4: I'm I'm with you on this. We have a problem already within our countries. What I'm urging is we don't have a complete open door to all the huddled masses, so we make a problem that we already have even worse. That's the point. Speaker 3: I know. I I think we need screening, but that's already gone. That's already gone. The EU Turkey agreement is going to return, you know, vast numbers who land in Greece. Although I want to say And Speaker 4: then let 77,000,000 Turks join the EU and have free movement. It's hardly a victory, Speaker 3: is it? No. I'm not I'm just having a victory. Speaker 4: I hate to see Speaker 3: what a defeat looks No. I'm right here, Riley. Speaker 7: Simon's point Simon's point is right here. When you've got second and third generation Belgians and Frenchmen and Germans and Britons and Canadians going off to join ISIS, blowing up Paris, blowing up Brussels, that ought to occasion a certain modesty among us, that we that our skills at assimilation, at inculcating our values are not as awesome and all encompassing as they were in the nineteenth century. And the answer when second and third generation immigrants are blowing up the airport, that suddenly that's the reason to accelerate immigration from the same source is very bizarre. In what sense in what sense are these people Belgian? Speaker 3: Well, you know, in what sense is Raisa Iqbal British? She's fully British. Right? Yes. She's fully British. And she happens to be a British Muslim. Speaker 7: Yes. Right? I've I've worked with for the Speaker 3: British. Can you get than doing, you know, the BBC World Service? Speaker 7: Yeah. I worked with Zena Badawi at Channel four in Britain. I've got no problem with that. But what but but that's my point. Holding a passport does not make you Canadian, and does not make you Belgian, I and does not make you agree. What? Speaker 3: What maybe we both want to see is some way but this is the difference between us, I think, actually. What I I think and Louise want to see is because, as Louise said at the end of her remarks, we're already a globally interconnected world on a shrinking planet. There are those of us who essentially are possibly naively optimistic humanists who think it not impossible to be an orthodox Muslim and a good Canadian or a good Brit, a good Democrat at the same time. And for that, you need to be, you know, involved and engaged to a degree which actually hasn't happened in in exercises of civic education, which make it clear that you can indeed go to a mosque on Friday for Friday prayers and still be a decent democratically participating citizen. If you go to the mosque and the imam happens to preach the destruction of the society that you're living in, bloody well turn him in. Turn him in. Speaker 2: Mike, do you Speaker 3: want to Speaker 7: come back on it? That doesn't happen, unfortunately. And if you look at the Mountie statistics of radicalized mosques, you'll understand that all over this city and Montreal and Calgary and Edmonton and Vancouver, there are any number of radicalized mosques where people just sit on their hands. The thing is that I I go I go back I go back to my point, Simon, that you have to have something to assimilate with. Speaker 2: Yes. Speaker 7: Most of the history you know, the people in British schools haven't a clue about. They they don't have a clue about. It's they don't teach history in North American schools. My kids are in some school where it's called social studies, and they do a little bit of it, and it's always the same thing. It's it's Martin Luther King comes around like the number 23 bus. Speaker 3: I I actually I I actually have a movement to abolish the term. Speaker 7: Well, good to see. I'll sign that for you. Speaker 3: Can I sign you up? Speaker 7: I want to Speaker 2: move on to numbers because that's a big part of this debate. We're seeing countries, not simply in The Middle East, Turkey 2,700,000, Lebanon, a million. You know, Nigel, if you look at Great Britain in terms of legally settled Syrian refugees, almost infinitesimal numbers compared to your European counterparts, What does Britain, what does Canada, what does The United States owe its European allies in terms of trying to take the pressure that you've diagnosed, you and Mark have diagnosed as so acute within their societies right now? What do we owe them? Speaker 4: We have a problem in The United Kingdom with this because we, having never had this before, we now have an open door to half a billion people who are European Union citizens. As a result of that, and generally a pretty weak UK immigration policy, net migration to Britain is running at a third of a million a year. That is if you believe the figures, which I really honestly don't. So we have got our population increasing by a third of a million every year, 10 times the post war average, and it is because of that that David Cameron has said he is only going to accept 20,000 Syrian refugees over the course of this parliament. I am absolutely certain that if The United Kingdom had an Australian style point system for immigration, and we had immigration, net migration running at average post war levels of 30,000 a year, we'd find room for some more genuine refugees. And I hope when we did that, we'd look at the plight of the Christians who are being massacred in in in in Libya, and in Iraq, and Syria, and who from every definition, and you shake your head at me, it fascinates me. From every definition that the United Nations has stood for since 1951, those Christians would, I would have thought, should be guaranteed freedom and security and refugee status in the West. And so I think in Britain and actually now in Germany and Sweden, we are actually becoming very hard hearted because of free movement of people, because of Schengen in the case of those countries, we are actually becoming rather hard hearted to things that 20 ago we would have been happy to accept. Speaker 2: Mark, on The United States, on a population of over 300,000,000, only 1,200 Syrian refugees have been legally and officially admitted into the country. Again, is that The United States shouldering its burden of this crisis? Speaker 7: No. But they don't look at it principally in a humanitarian way. They see it as part of the the big security picture, And it's it's it's a little surreal to be holding this debate in the week following Brussels, which is which is what the question would mean if we discussed it in The United States. Because Louis and Simon, I think, want to detach the general migration question from the terrorism question, and the Americans in particular don't see it that way. We all know. I mean, I was glad to hear that the zealots of Canadian customs turned over Simon at Pearson earlier today. It's good to know there's always someone they don't want to let in the country. And the fast but the fascinating thing is when you look at what mister McCallum is gonna say, he goes, we're we're not Speaker 4: gonna have these. We're not Speaker 7: gonna have the chaps committing the gang rapes. No. We're we're screening we're screening for them. We're screening for them. No Western government, if you have ever been, had the pleasure of undergoing so called secondary interrogation as this suspicious character did earlier today, you will know that no Western government has a clue about who it looks, who it lets in. The person who committed the San Bernardino crime, as you say, had a a green card. That was a pay she basically used the jihadist dating site to put together a terrorist cell. It was an arranged marriage for the purpose of committing terrorism, and she aced something because it's money no object down south. It's not like here where there's just whatever it's called this week, the CBSA. There's just one little agency dealing with it. They've got like 97 agencies south of the border looking at this woman. She aced five separate tests and she still got into the country. We America takes the view it has no idea who any of these people are and better be safe than sorry. Speaker 2: Great. Let's come back now to you, Louise. What does North America, what does Canada and The United States owe in terms of its share of this crisis? Speaker 6: Well, I I think we have to bring this debate a little bit back into less apocalyptic scale. First of all, we and maybe the wording of the motion I said at the beginning was a poetic way of capturing the spirit and the letter of the refugee convention. But I think we've drifted now into the movement of people, in fact, which are for the most part unregulated by international law, international treaty. What we're talking about now, the so called huge crisis that Europe is facing, is very well defined by the refugee convention. We haven't made a dent in talking about the millions of stateless people in the world who don't have a passport. And by the way, Mark, if you have a Canadian passport, you're a Canadian citizen. There's no other thing. Right? So, we haven't made a dent into dealing with statelessness. We haven't made a dent in talking about what are called IDPs, internally displaced persons, of which there are millions in Syria itself, in Sudan. These people are stuck in their own country against a predatory government. We have no framework to deal with them and to help them. What we're talking about are people running away from oppression, and frankly, we have to assume, when you consider immense risk that they're taking to flee, that at least the majority of them are bona fide refugee applicants. And then we have to process it. So we're talking about very small numbers. When we say millions, it's millions wanting, knocking on the door of a billion people if you put Europe, North America, all the world's capacity of the wealthy nations together. The key, I believe, is international cooperation. There's no reason Greece, which was having a lot of financial problems itself, should have been stuck with bearing the largest burden. The European partners and the Western countries generally should have stepped up to the plate, and I think Canada should still do so beyond the already generous signal that we have already sent. We have the luxury, actually in Canada, of doing a full pre screening. They don't row into Canada. They sit in refugee camps where we have months and months through UNHCR to do pre selection processes. With the luxury of these processes in place, we should be doing tons more, But then everybody has to work in that direction and stop the exaggeration, not the non existence of security risk. I'm not saying there is zero risk, but to blow it up to such an extent that we start talking about erecting walls with barbed wires, I think this will be actually a stain and a shame on our generation, if that's our response. Speaker 2: We're coming to the end of our cross examination period, but Simon, want give you the last word in this segment, and then we'll go into closing statements. Speaker 3: Oh, I just want to really echo what Louise said, and I just want to say just a quick piece of information that came out today. A report from Amnesty International, which casts a very long shadow over the Turkey EU agreement, if that's going to happen. The report from International, which is very, very credible, by the way, says that Turkey has been forcibly deporting Syrian refugees, back to the war zones from which they've come, which is a horrific thing to contemplate, if true. The Turks have denied this, but there seems to be a very substantial amount of evidence. It throws the issue back to the place perhaps we should have spent more time on, as Louise suggested, that there is this kind of universe of misery and suffering, especially one in every three displaced persons in these hellish camps in Syria, some in Jordan and Lebanon are children. And we have to really think about their plight rather than obsess quite so much on jihadis and rapists in German cities. Speaker 2: Very good. Okay. It's time now for, closing statements. We are going to proceed in the opposite order of our opening statements. So Nigel, your three minutes will go up on the clock, and you have the stage. Speaker 4: Thank you. You for a very civilized debate. We started off with 77% against our side of the argument which compared to the odds I am against when I am in the European Parliament strikes me as being quite a good start. I have tried tonight to make the point that I do think it is beholden upon people in the West to open their hearts to genuine refugees. People who are in fear of direct persecution, imprisonment, and death because of their race, their religion, their political beliefs, indeed, their sexual orientation. I've tried to make that point, and I've no doubt that America and Canada could do an awful lot more than they are doing. I have no doubt about that when it comes to refugees. But it is Europe that has faced the front line of this over the course of the last eighteen months and what we have done is we have thrown out of the window our classical definition of what a refugee is and we have broadened it to anybody coming from a war torn area or frankly anybody coming from a poor country. What missus Merkel did clearly was irresponsible, damn stupid, and is a price that Germany will have to pay for many years to come. Just opening up your doors and not being able in a modern world where we do have a genuine terrorist threat, and yes, it's about 2% probably of the Muslim communities that are coming into Europe. But if only eight people can cause all that misery, all that misery in Paris and half a dozen what we saw in Brussels, we have to be careful. We have to have security checks. We have to process people offshore and make sure they're genuine refugees. And I've tried this evening to challenge the other side to see whether they would agree with me that the Christians who are being crucified and massacred in The Middle East should qualify for refugee status and I have not had one positive response from the other side on this at all. And this ladies and gentlemen is the point. This motion, you cannot support this motion. It is idealized nonsense. It doesn't make sense. What we need to have is a sensible, proper, common sense refugee policy to help those who are in peril. But just to open up our doors the way Angela Merkel did is bad news for Germany and is bad news for the West, and we need to stand up and stop such nonsense. Oppose the motion, please. Thank you. Speaker 3: I won't say I don't disagree at all, but, you know, with your point about the Christian about the Christian community. Ditto Yazidis and persecuted Shias. As far as the Islamic state is concerned, Shia aren't Muslim at all. So I want to end with the words of a Christian, not mine, Written in 1624, you all know some of them, at least, I'm sure. The dean of Saint Paul's, John Donne, no man is an island entire of itself. Every man is a piece of Speaker 2: the Speaker 3: continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, As well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manna of thy friends were. Any man's death diminishes me because I'm involved in mankind, and therefore, never send to know for whom the bell tolls tolls for thee. Speaker 2: Louise, we're going go to Mark, and you'll get the last word. Mark? Speaker 7: Those of us on the stage and many of the more distinguished persons in the auditorium tonight lead privileged lives. Privileged lives. We jet off to the European Parliament in Strasbourg, to BBC Television Studios, Speaker 2: to Speaker 7: the transnational bureaucracy in Geneva. And it's easy. It's easy from 30,000 feet to think that what's going on below us is swell. We will never have to live in Malenbeek in Brussels or Rosengard in Malmo. We will never have to live in Bradford or Toulouse. We get to go to the nice places. And that should occasion in us a certain modesty when we come up with grand utopian schemes that testify to what Simon called, I think, a naively optimistic humanism. Because down there in Mollenbeak and in Rosengard, they have to live with the consequences of our attitudes, of our naively optimistic humanism. It we we are striking attitudes. Simon talked earlier, I think, about his Kurdish news agent, who's always a very decent chap when he hands him the Jewish Chronicle in in the morning. We all know people we all know people like that. But at the same time, the political class is designing a solution to the great migrations of the world that will only end in tragedy, and I ask you not to vote for it. The more failed states that stay failed, the more failed states there will be. So ultimately, ultimately, it is better for Syrians to be able to live in Syria, for Afghans to be able to live in Afghanistan, for Iraqis to be able to live in Iraq. It is better for there to be more beacons of liberty around the world. I confess, I've never liked the Emma Lazarus poem that is stapled to the bottom of the Statue Of Liberty. The French gave the Americans a fabulous Statue Of Liberty, and the Americans nailed a third rate poem to it and turned it into a celebration of mass migration. Liberty and mass migration have nothing to do with each other, and often often, in fact, the latter can imperil the former, and that is where Simon's naively optimistic humanism may take us. We cannot fix failed states by inviting millions of their people to move in with us. All that ensures is more failed states, more failure, and eventually, one by one, the nations of the West will join them. And then you'll really be yearning to breathe free, and there'll be no way to do it. Please vote against this motion. Speaker 2: Ms. Arbour, you'll have the last word. Speaker 6: Alright. Well, let me say at the outset that I don't see I don't know of any evidence that suggests that Christians from Syria or Druze or Alawites have been excluded from refugee protection. I don't know where this is this is all coming from. I think what at the bottom of, I think, today's debate, I think is showing that what is being portrayed today as unique is that is in fact just another manifestation of the old myths and stereotypes and prejudices that have met virtually every wave of immigration, and it's particularly odious when it targets refugees, not just any other kind of migrants. In fact, Doug Saunders, in his book and in a piece that he wrote in the Globe and Mail, made the point that in fact many of the things that we hear today about Muslim refugees penetrating our western societies with the fifth column intent on destroying it, in fact many of the characteristics that we attribute to them were attributed in sometimes in relatively recent parts of our histories to Catholics, for instance, who were said to be backwards, had a loyalty to Rome more than to their home country, lived in poor crime ridden neighborhoods, were very backwards, anti democratic, authoritarian by disposition. Doesn't that sound also like the yellow peril that we were all going to be transformed into a different society? We will all end up being of a mixed color if we let in these millions of people coming from all over the world. This plays into exactly the same stereotypes and myths that we've heard at every single point in history. The reality is, despite an original knee jerk, at times very hostile reception to newcomers, the history in this country has been a history of immense success of integrating people coming from all kinds of different cultures and religions. And when I talk about integration, it is a two way street. It has changed us, and it will change us in the future. We have to have a very impoverished confidence in our democracy to think that it is so fragile that it cannot sustain the profound differences that will challenge us through our devotion to free speech, freedom of assembly, and pluralism. Thank you. I believe we're okay. Speaker 2: Well, ladies and gentlemen, it was a hard fought debate tonight, and it reminds me of something that our founder, Peter Monk, has said on many occasions. It's one thing to get up and give a speech to have the stage as yours for forty five minutes or an hour. It's something very different, what we've seen tonight. Four big minds, four big thinkers, challenging each other, putting their ideas out there, and contesting this important issue. So please join me in a show of appreciation for a phenomenal debate from Lisa Bettors. Bravo. Very well done. Very well done. Thank you. Bravo. Okay. Let's take a look at where public opinion was at in this hall at the beginning of this evening, because all of you in the audience here are going to have the opportunity on your way out of the hall to vote again. So, let's take a look at where audience was at the beginning of tonight, 77% of you agreeing with the motion, 23% opposed. Then we asked you how many would be open to changing your mind to get a sense of the degree to which this debate was in place, 79% yes. So, it's going to be fascinating to see how all of you decide based on what you've heard tonight, the arguments, pro and con, where you will come down on this debate. I just want to end by again thanking the Auria Foundation for staging these phenomenal debates. They're a great part of Toronto, a great part of Canada, this evening, something that's been available to people from coast to coast in Canada and across the Continental United States. We're going do this all again next autumn, but in the meantime, keep watching, keep learning, keep reading. Thank you for joining us at the Monk Debates.
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Very disturbing stuff. “The military, at that time, was excited about trying to influence how people think. This influence campaign, he said, was aimed at trying to make sure Canadians understood the threat posed by COVID-19 and to boost support for the military…” https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/military-intelligence-gathering-violations-pandemic-9.7152467

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Mark Carney's recent remarks are influenced by a 2015 plan from Pan Gongsheng at the People's Bank of China, which was led by Zhou Xiaochuan, a figure Carney met last fall. At the 2024 Boao Forum, Carney emphasized the urgency for mandatory transition plans and suggested that the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank could play a role in monitoring social integrity, while expressing praise for China. I also noted that Pierre Poilievre appears to be following a strategy similar to Trump's. It's important to stay alert to these developments.

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Mark Carney’s talking points come from a plan created by his associate Pan Gongsheng (whom he recently addressed) at the People’s Bank of China in 2015 called “Establishing China’s Green Financial System.” The Bank was governed by Zhou Xiaochuan, whom Carney met last fall. https://www.cbd.int/financial/privatesector/china-green%20task%20force%20report.pdf

@liberal_party - Liberal Party

Pierre Poilievre is following Trump's playbook.

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Don’t believe me? See for yourself.

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Mark Carney addresses his ally Zhou Xiaochuan at the 2024 Boao Forum (“Asian Davos”). He says “we can't wait another decade for transition plans to become mandatory,” and that the disgraced Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank can “monitor social integrity” as he praises China.

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History demonstrates that financial cooperation evolves in response to economic shocks. The G20's Financial Stability Board (FSB) effectively developed global standards by combining the common objective of financial stability with shared solutions from national authorities. This model of shared objectives, formal authority, and iterative processes should be applied to climate action. The Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero (GFANZ) is working to develop voluntary guidelines that can be formalized by financial authorities, as seen with climate disclosures transitioning from the TCFD to the ISSB. Action plans are crucial, and GFANZ has developed transition finance guidance. The G20 should mandate transition plans and taxonomies for large companies, and blended finance and voluntary carbon markets are vital for emerging economies. Authorities must establish standards for integrity in carbon credits, and multilateral development banks should maximize financing for climate change. The FSB's post-crisis reforms have proven resilient, but excessive self-reliance could increase vulnerabilities. International cooperation is essential for building sustainable supply chains, sharing technologies, and supporting cross-border finance for net zero. Chinese leadership is crucial in transition finance and participation in GFANZ.
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Speaker 0: Governor Pan, Governor Joe, distinguished guests, it's a great pleasure to join the BOWAU Forum to offer a few reflections on the evolution of financial cooperation. History shows that new macroeconomic and financial policy regimes emerge in response to large economic shocks. For example, following the economic disaster of the Great Depression, governments prioritized stability through Keynesian fiscal policies to smooth business cycles, fixed exchange rate regimes to dampen volatility, and capital controls and managed trade to reduce cross border spillovers. Since financial institutions had few international exposures, the need for regulatory and financial cooperation was limited. The oil crises and the great inflations of the 1970s brought monetary policy independence and greater fiscal discipline, creating the foundation for a long period of global integration and economic liberalization. And this exceptionally prosperous period of strong growth and economic convergence across countries was turbocharged by the liberalization of trade and capital flows, by broad adherence to a rules based economic order, and by convergence of economic institutions over time. But from Bank Herdstadt in the 1970s through to the Asian financial crisis in the 1990s and the dot com crash in the 2000s, policymakers were increasingly reminded that financial instability could spill readily across borders. And this recognition of mutual dependence promoted regulatory and financial cooperation in Europe as part of the larger project of European integration, and globally for banks through the Basel Committee. There was, however, limited cooperation amongst prudential supervisors, insurance regulators, and market regulators. And these gaps proved highly damaging when the shocks from the global financial crisis that originated in the G7 reverberated across the world and triggered a global recession. In response, the world began to take financial cooperation seriously. The G20's Financial Stability Board developed a host of prudential and macro prudential measures covering all aspects of finance, from banking to market based finance and financial market infrastructure. The FSB has been effective in developing global standards across all of these critical areas because it combines a common objective, financial stability, with the shared development of solutions by the heads of national authorities, so central banks, securities, regulators, prudential regulators, and of course ministries of finance. The FSB is not a treaty organization so no member is bound by its decisions. However, it's the very process of building consensus that instills ownership and leads to timely implementation. Regular assessments and feedback from financial markets further incentivizes compliance. We need the same form of financial cooperation through shared objectives, formal authority and an informal iterative process and transparency to build the sustainable financial system the world needs for climate action. The Glasgow Financial Lines for Net Zero or GFANS has been working to this end. Under this approach, market practitioners develop voluntary guidelines that are implemented by market leaders and improved through a process of learning by doing. Once these guidelines are sufficiently mature, financial authorities can confidently enshrine them into their frameworks. For example, with climate disclosures, the process began with the launch of the voluntary private sector led TCFD at the Paris COP in 2015. By the Hamburg G20 in 2018, comprehensive voluntary guidelines were delivered under the informal guidance of the FSB. By the Glasgow COP in 2020, '40 countries, including China, were sufficiently confident to launch the ISSB to translate these private guidelines into formal standards. The ISSB accomplished its task in record time. China, as well as being the co host of the ISSB, is amongst the country's leading implementation. While disclosure defines the problem, action plans are needed to solve it. That's why GFANS has developed transition finance guidance that includes scaling climate solutions and going where the emissions are to finance the decarbonisation of heavy emitters. And if that is impossible, the managed phase out of stranded assets. In response, over two fifty GFANS members are setting out their transition plans this year, and more will follow in an echo of the TCFD process. But given the lateness of the planetary hour, we can't wait another decade for transition plans to become mandatory as we did for climate disclosure. The G20 should act now by mandating transition plans and transition taxonomies for large companies and financial institutions, consistent with the G20 ban's approach. Encouragingly, the Singapore Asia taxonomy already includes the coal phase out criteria. The Japanese government has set out guidance. Secretary Yellen's principles for net zero finance are consistent with the GFAN's recommendations. Financing the transition will not be feasible in emerging economies without a high degree of financial cooperation to promote blended finance and voluntary carbon markets. Those voluntary carbon markets can provide hundreds of billions of dollars to retire high emitting assets, prevent new coal generation and provide finance for biodiversity and indigenous peoples. To fulfil these roles, authorities must establish standards for end to end integrity in carbon credits. Authorities can build on valuable work by the ICVCM for supply integrity, the VCMI for demand integrity, and IOSCO for market infrastructure. And the World Bank, the AIIB and the ADB can help monitor social integrity. With respect to blended finance, multilateral development banks should use all of their capacities that means operational, financial and technical to maximize the total financing to address climate change by making greater and more effective use of guarantees, insurance and blended finance. Building on the work of its private sector investment lab, the World Bank recently announced reforms to its guarantee programs to these ends. And I'd suggest that the G20 countries should use all the levers at their disposal, including as providers of catalytic capital to country platforms, as standard setters for new carbon markets and as the major shareholders of multilateral development banks. To conclude, the FSB post crisis reforms have stood the test of time, withstanding a series of crisis that we've all had to endure over the past decade. But those crises have triggered a broad reprioritization of resilience over efficiency to the extent that the global economy is entering a new regime where there are major risks that excessive attempts at self reliance could actually end up increasing vulnerabilities and sharply slow global growth. To combat that risk, we need to cooperate on our most pressing problems, most notably climate change. Defeating this global challenge will require a high degree of international cooperation in the real economy from building sustainable supply chains to sharing cutting edge technologies and supporting record levels cross border finance to drive the net zero revolution. In the spirit of Bow Wow, our priority for financial cooperation should be to work together to develop first voluntary guidelines and then formal standards in order to finance that transition. And this will clearly not be possible without Chinese leadership. I very much welcome the PBOC's leadership on transition finance in the G20 just as it led to the creation of the NGFS of central banks and supervisors. And I would very much welcome greater Chinese participation in GFANS as authorities deem appropriate in order to shape this critical agenda. Thank you very much. Governor Pan.

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Mark Carney with his pal Zhou Xiaochuan from the Bank of China in October 2024. In November, Brookfield would secure a 1.96 billion yuan (US$276 million) loan from the Bank of China to refinance real estate purchases.

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Pay attention. https://wb.beijing.gov.cn/en/center_for_international_exchanges/headlines/202412/t20241224_3972367.html

Annual Conference of Financial Street Forum 2024 Concludes_Headlines_北京市人民政府外事办公室 On the afternoon of October 20, the Annual Conference of Financial Street Forum 2024 concluded in Beijing.Zhou Xiaochuan, Vice Chairman of Boao Forum for Asia.Vice Chairman of BlackRock and Former Chairman of the Governing Board of the Swiss National Bank.The event was also attended by leaders of relevant departments of the Central Government and the Beijing Municipal Government.(Written by Yang Qi). wb.beijing.gov.cn
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Mark Carney is outright lying to the press - here is the photo of him together with members of the Jiangsu Commerce Council of Canada (JCCC). He can’t snake his way out of this one. Article is here: https://www.thejccc.com/newsinfo/8127529.html https://t.co/RtgV0269q4

@MBrant75 - MBrant75

He just denied they ever met. https://t.co/SVVsDsbm3k

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The speaker denies having a meeting with the Jiangsu Commerce Council of Canada, a group they call a "Beijing Group," stating they've never heard of this group and that simply being in the same room as someone and taking a picture does not constitute a meeting. They advise checking sources before publishing such claims. Regarding Liberal candidate Peter Yan, the speaker says he has served his community for decades, including as deputy commissioner of police. They state that in this role, he met with various community groups as part of his job and that they are proud to have him as a candidate, honoring his service.
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Speaker 0: Globe and Mail. My colleagues have a story today about a liberal candidate's relations with China friendly groups and a meeting that you also held with a pro Beijing group. So my question is, why did you meet with this pro Beijing group, Jiangsu Commerce Council of Canada? And is the party okay with the fact that Liberal candidate Peter Yan has been so close with the Chinese consulate and China friendly groups, given the public inquiry into foreign interference, says that this is a tactic China uses to exert influence. Speaker 1: Okay. Well, I'm sorry, but you can't believe everything you read in The Globe and Mail. So in your question, and I guess in the article in question, you said I had a meeting with whatever your term was, Beijing Group. I've never heard of this group. Okay? Never heard of this group. Certainly didn't have a setup meeting with this group. Full stop. So check your sources before you write things like that. Okay? Or your colleagues do. I'm a politician. I go to events where there are hundreds and thousands, you know, thousands over the course of a day of different people there. That is not a meeting. If somebody happens to be in the room, takes a picture with me, that's not a meeting, okay, First point. Secondly, with respect to, mister Young. This is a person who has served his community for decades. The person who's deputy, commissioner of the of the police. Okay? A person in discharge of those responsibilities meets with a variety of community groups in the community because that's his job. That's his responsibility. We're proud to have him as a candidate, and, and, I honor his service including on on today. Thank you.

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In case anyone wants to read the article about the meeting between Mark Carney and the Jiangsu Commerce Council of Canada (JCCC) - here it is. “Mark Carney believes that trade must be diversified and we need to reduce economic dependence on the United States…” https://t.co/9YRJDytQG1

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The articles posted on the account were amplified in a coordinated and inauthentic way by a group of 30 smaller WeChat accounts that boosted the posts. This amplification occurred over the course of four days, keeping narratives about Mr. Carney in algorithmic feeds.

@Dennismolin11 - Dennis Molinaro 牟丹尼

Here we go again. So the PRC is trying to assist Carney. If you think that somehow this influencing campaign stays confined to one community - it doesn't. The point is to mould opinions, have them spread and shared with others after they accept them. https://www.canada.ca/en/privy-council/news/2025/04/information-operation-on-wechat-targeting-the-45th-general-election.html

Information operation on WeChat targeting the 45th General Election The Government of Canada held its third briefing to media regarding the actions that it is taking to protect the 45th General Election from foreign interference. canada.ca
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Site Task Force had detected an interference campaign originating from the People’s Republic of China linked to Chinese Communist Party efforts to spread misinformation to voters. We all know what party they’re favouring. https://t.co/ugKtOJy5lv

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The speaker emphasized the importance of informing Canadians that a social media account is linked to the People's Republic of China and the Chinese Communist Party. Intelligence indicates a concerted effort within the Communist Party to spread and manipulate narratives seen by Canadians. A hallmark of democracy is the ability to have debates during an election period, unfettered by foreign influence. When asked to be more specific about the assessment that this is not likely to impact the ability for a free and fair election, the speaker stated that the activity is contained to a specific social media platform, and Canadians can get information from a variety of sources. The panel felt it was important to share this information because of the level of engagement on the platform and the account's link to the PRC. However, there is no evidence to suggest at the moment that it has any impact on how people may choose to cast their vote.
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Speaker 0: Want to be careful to emphasize the point of sharing this information with Canadians. As Larissa mentioned and in Bridget's remarks, the important part of information that we're sharing with you today is to be clear with Canadians that the account that has made these posts is linked to the People's Republic Of China and to the Chinese Communist Party in particular, and that intelligence has provided that there is a concerted effort behind that entity within the Communist Party to spread and manipulate the narrative that Canadians are seeing. We should all keep in mind that a hallmark of democracy is to be able to have such a debate during an election period. It is for Canadians to have that debate unfettered by the influence of a foreign state. Speaker 1: I'll squeeze in the last question. Palak Mangat, Parliament today. Hi. I'm hoping you can hear me okay. Speaker 2: Yes. Speaker 1: I take your point about this kind of being nuanced judgment, but you said it's not likely sorry. In saying that it's not likely to impact the ability for a free and fair election, can you just be a little bit more specific in what makes you confident in saying that even? And, you know, is there even is there a thought to how this could impact the results of the specific riding or is that just out of sights Bailiwick here? Speaker 2: I think maybe I'd start with so part of it is that it is contained to a very specific social media platform and that Canadians have the ability to get information about their vote from a variety of sources so it's not kind of olithic approach. And so the panel felt that it was important as it's site that we come forward and share this information both because of the level of engagement on this one platform but also as Vanessa had said the link of this particular account to the PRC. That being said, there's no evidence to suggest at the moment that it has any impact on how people may choose to cast their vote.
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Appearing on a list of “overseas propagandists" put out by the CCP is Qifie Zheng (郑棋飞), Canada Fujian Chamber of Commerce director, and Lu Jianwang (卢建旺). Both attended the opening of the overseas Chinese police stations (海外110). Jianwang was later arrested by the FBI. @csiscanada @FBI

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Remember when Toronto was featured in China's 110 overseas police station promo video now banned on WeChat? @BlueBellsForest @AKAfeng37 @RealAndyLeeShow https://t.co/pmw8XFvidY

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The birth of an overseas Chinese police station in Canada, overseen by one of Xi Jinping’s top UFWD officials. The leaders of the stations would go on to campaign with Trudeau and the Liberal Party. The New York station was just busted by the @FBI. Ours are still operating.

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Vincent Ke and Wei Chengyi, accused of assisting in foreign interference, meet with Yang Hui, Director of the Overseas Chinese Affairs Office of Fujian, in 2016. Hui would go on to meet Lu Jianwang, the man arrested by the FBI in New York for operating an overseas police station. https://t.co/xFE7bDSbdQ

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Yes, the “110 Stations” (also known as our Chinese police stations) totally just look like innocent passport offices in this promotion video, and not at all like a military operation. “We will resolutely crack down on illegal and criminal activities involving overseas Chinese.” https://t.co/TtfzkAQix0

@mafan2020 - 🌻码凡🇺🇦🍉

这海外110广而告之的视频现在被微信给禁了 https://t.co/ctD3qvuMm7

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福州公安积极落实习总书记关于保护海外侨胞的指示，推出了海外110报警服务台，旨在为海外福州及侨胞提供更便捷、精准的公安服务。该服务台于1月10日正式启用，设有专席处理海外报警求助。新上线的报警功能包括电话、微信和邮件报警，进一步维护侨胞的合法权益。同时，福州公安在全球五大洲设立了30个侨务服务站，方便侨胞跨境办理事务。福州公安通过实际行动，推动跨境服务的便捷化，成为海外福州侨胞的贴心服务者。 Fuzhou Public Security is actively implementing General Secretary Xi's directives to protect overseas Chinese. The overseas 110 reporting service was launched on January 10, providing convenient and precise police services for overseas Fuzhou residents and expatriates. The service includes dedicated personnel for handling overseas reports and new functions for reporting via phone, WeChat, and email. Additionally, 30 overseas service stations have been established globally to assist expatriates with cross-border matters, enhancing service accessibility.
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RealAndyLeeShow
Posted - November 5, 2024 at 4:53 PM
Saved - November 6, 2024 at 4:50 AM

@RealAndyLeeShow - Andy Lee

I can’t help but notice it appears you’ve been deleting things from your site.

@progresstoronto - Progress Toronto

@RealAndyLeeShow Hi! This post is misinformation. What you’ve posted is untrue. We registered as a third party on Oct 8 & began third party activities on Oct 10. What you’ve linked to was a survey of local residents on their priorities—not a third party activity. See here: https://www.progresstoronto.ca/volunteer-dvw-survey-2024

Volunteer: Talk to Voters in Don Valley West — Progress Toronto We will be knocking on doors (canvassing) in Don Valley West to talk to voters before their by-election on November 4th. progresstoronto.ca
RealAndyLeeShow
Posted - September 30, 2024 at 2:12 PM
Saved - September 30, 2024 at 3:05 PM
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I spoke with 105.9 Yes My Radio about the allegations against Bill Blair regarding the delay in signing off on a surveillance warrant linked to Liberal fundraiser Michael Chan. It's concerning that this station has previously spread misinformation and has ties to Chinese diplomats.

@RealAndyLeeShow - Andy Lee

Bill Blair, accused of delaying the sign off of a surveillance warrant prior to the election on Liberal fundraising kingpin Michael Chan, interviews with 105.9 Yes My Radio - the radio station that spread misinformation about Kenny Chiu that maintains ties with Chinese diplomats. @PIFIEPIE @csiscanada Credit: @xjlisali

@RealAndyLeeShow - Andy Lee

The radio station that spread misinformation about Kenny Chiu’s foreign registry bill, called “105.9 Yes My Radio,” hosts a welcome party for the new Consul General Luo Weidong with Consul General Cheng Hongbo. I know what they did, and I care. Yours truly, drowning guy. @PIFIEPIE@csiscanada @rcmpgrcpolice https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/Mdy616kd1jUbEf5YpC7NKg

RealAndyLeeShow
Posted - March 17, 2023 at 3:18 AM
Saved - September 30, 2024 at 1:43 AM
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Eighty-three percent of donations to Trudeau’s Papineau riding in 2016 came from outside Quebec, with two-thirds from around 50 Chinese donors in just 48 hours. Notably, Rongxiang “Tiger” Yuan, linked to the CCP, made significant donations shortly before being investigated for fentanyl trafficking after attending a Liberal fundraiser. I'm curious to explore Liberal Party donations from that time to see if there's a pattern, especially given that Trudeau's top donors have faced serious allegations, including fraud.

@RealAndyLeeShow - Andy Lee

Eighty-three per cent of donations to Trudeau’s Papineau riding in 2016 came from outside of Quebec. Two thirds came from around 50 Chinese donors and were given in the span of 48 hours between July 6-7th. Elections Canada shows three donations received on July 6, 2016 from Rongxiang “Tiger” Yuan, totalling $4,299.30 - reportedly a former high-ranking officer in the CCP’s People’s Liberation Army. Interesting timing. Credit: Bob Mackin https://thebreaker.news/business/trudeau-and-a-chinese-soldier/

Exclusive: Trudeau privately entertained real estate investor from China's military on the eve of a 2016 housing crisis talk - theBreaker On a 2016 trip to Vancouver, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau held a housing affordability roundtable the morning after a private fundraiser with a Chinese Communist Party military veteran. thebreaker.news

@RealAndyLeeShow - Andy Lee

I would say a lot of people making near-max donations to Justin Trudeau’s Papineau riding association from outside of Quebec - and particularly from British Columbia - before and during the 2015 election is not ordinary at all. See a pattern? It’s rather extraordinary, actually.

@RealAndyLeeShow - Andy Lee

The donation timing makes you wonder if people in Yuan’s inner circle were part of that Papineau block that donated to Trudeau. One of his donations was directed specifically to the riding. If so… it’s not a good look. He was investigated by the RCMP for fentanyl trafficking after attending a Liberal fundraiser with Justin Trudeau on June 16th, 2016. https://globalnews.ca/news/4658161/fentanyl-wealth-compound-british-columbia/

High-roller targeted in RCMP’s probe of alleged ‘transnational drug trafficking’ ring | Globalnews.ca If it was in Colombia or Mexico, the secluded five-acre property on Chadsey Road might pass for the set of a Netflix narcos drama. globalnews.ca

@RealAndyLeeShow - Andy Lee

I’m going to have to look at Liberal Party donations during that period too. See if there’s a pattern.

@RealAndyLeeShow - Andy Lee

Well, I mean there’s already a pattern. Trudeau’s top donors were a bunch of criminals. But I want to see if I can connect who all donated in that 48 hour period, and whether it was perhaps coordinated by members of this group or by Wealth One Bank backers.

@RealAndyLeeShow - Andy Lee

This is nice. One of Trudeau’s top donors, Kuen Kwok, was accused of defrauding immigrants. “In two lawsuits, Yaping Lai alleges that Kuen Yu Kwok, a self-described ‘prominent businessman and director of several companies,’ defrauded her out of more than $200000 in connection with a bid to immigrate to Canada.” https://biv.com/article/2016/08/cancer-agency-spinoff-faces-fraud-allegations

Cancer agency spinoff faces fraud allegations A would-be Chinese immigrant businesswoman is suing a troubled BC Cancer Agency spinoff company after a board member allegedly defrauded her out of more than $200,000 by promising to help fast-track her immigration application under the Provincial Nominee Program. biv.com
RealAndyLeeShow
Posted - July 4, 2024 at 12:39 PM
Saved - July 4, 2024 at 1:14 PM
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An article critical of Rebel News and Ezra Levant ahead of the 2021 election is written by an unidentified author with an IP address in Beijing. The author praises Justin Trudeau and claims to have spoken to Han Dong and an unnamed PMO source who expressed concerns about Rebel's rhetoric. The author, who identifies as a former reporter from China, highlights the disparity in treatment between Xinhua News and Rebel News at PMO press conferences. The article can be read in its entirety, with the author referring to Rebel readers as "morons."

@RealAndyLeeShow - Andy Lee

An article runs a hit on Rebel News and Ezra Levant ahead of the 2021 election. The unidentified author has an IP address in Beijing, praises Justin Trudeau, and claims to have spoken to Han Dong and an unnamed PMO source who said “normal people find Rebel’s rhetoric extreme and dangerous (正常的人都会觉 得Rebel Media的说辞非常偏激,并且危险).” @PIFIEPIE https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/Fwt7wbW7LGwGzkuDYjkEmw

@RealAndyLeeShow - Andy Lee

Who knew getting someone on the line from the PMO was that easy… especially if you are (currently) based in Beijing? https://t.co/PlHbaPRTlR

@RealAndyLeeShow - Andy Lee

The author identifies as a former reporter from China. She says “China's Xinhua News can take part in (PMO) press conferences, but Rebel News and other critics are turned away.” The entire article can be read here. My favourite part is where she calls Rebel readers “morons.” https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/Fwt7wbW7LGwGzkuDYjkEmw

RealAndyLeeShow
Posted - April 30, 2024 at 4:39 PM
Saved - May 1, 2024 at 2:47 AM

@RealAndyLeeShow - Andy Lee - Special Rebel Rapporteur

Quiz time: how many “non-profit organizations” with live fundraisers used to create civil unrest in other countries are being run out of a dumpy office in Arizona? This is one of Samidoun’s (@UBC occupation’s) financial backers. Address: 225 E 26th St, Suite 1 Tucson, AZ 85713 https://t.co/qPA8HT15gV

@RealAndyLeeShow - Andy Lee - Special Rebel Rapporteur

Uh-oh. Looks like Samidoun Network’s online donation fundraiser is down. But you can still support this upstanding terror-loving organization, which has been banned from other countries, by sending cheques to the "Alliance for Global Justice" in Arizona. Seems legit. https://t.co/Kd2Nu2C2cJ

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Posted - March 17, 2023 at 1:31 PM
Saved - April 10, 2024 at 3:57 PM

@RealAndyLeeShow - Andy Lee - Special Rebel Rapporteur

Also on Trudeau’s Papineau donor list is Saree Chan, chair of the Richmond Fei Cui Industrial Group, who was implicated in a criminal drug, gun, and money-laundering ring when the property she held title to was used as a stash house. Real salt-of-the-earth people. Read this story: https://vancouversun.com/news/national/huge-b-c-money-laundering-investigation-pivots-to-drugs-and-guns/wcm/a51575d0-21c7-45ad-a5ed-e2afca0de0d4/amp/

Huge B.C. money-laundering investigation pivots to drugs and guns In December 2015, a new leg of the RCMP’s E-Pirate money-laundering investigation delved into Metro Vancouver’s underworld of fentanyl labs, gun sales and violent dial-a-dope gangs. This is the story of the offshoot investigation, code-named Prophet. vancouversun.com

@RealAndyLeeShow - Andy Lee - Special Rebel Rapporteur

Eighty-three per cent of donations to Trudeau’s Papineau riding in 2016 came from outside of Quebec. Two thirds came from around 50 Chinese donors and were given in the span of 48 hours between July 6-7th. Elections Canada shows three donations received on July 6, 2016 from Rongxiang “Tiger” Yuan, totalling $4,299.30 - reportedly a former high-ranking officer in the CCP’s People’s Liberation Army. Interesting timing. Credit: Bob Mackin https://thebreaker.news/business/trudeau-and-a-chinese-soldier/

Exclusive: Trudeau privately entertained real estate investor from China's military on the eve of a 2016 housing crisis talk - theBreaker On a 2016 trip to Vancouver, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau held a housing affordability roundtable the morning after a private fundraiser with a Chinese Communist Party military veteran. thebreaker.news
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Posted - March 17, 2023 at 3:18 AM
Saved - April 10, 2024 at 5:17 AM
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In 2016, 83% of donations to Trudeau's Papineau riding came from outside Quebec. Around 50 Chinese donors contributed two-thirds of the donations within a 48-hour period. On July 6, 2016, Rongxiang "Tiger" Yuan, a former high-ranking officer in the CCP's People's Liberation Army, made three donations totaling $4,299.30. The timing of these donations is noteworthy. Credit: Bob Mackin.

@RealAndyLeeShow - Andy Lee - Special Rebel Rapporteur

Eighty-three per cent of donations to Trudeau’s Papineau riding in 2016 came from outside of Quebec. Two thirds came from around 50 Chinese donors and were given in the span of 48 hours between July 6-7th. Elections Canada shows three donations received on July 6, 2016 from Rongxiang “Tiger” Yuan, totalling $4,299.30 - reportedly a former high-ranking officer in the CCP’s People’s Liberation Army. Interesting timing. Credit: Bob Mackin https://thebreaker.news/business/trudeau-and-a-chinese-soldier/

Exclusive: Trudeau privately entertained real estate investor from China's military on the eve of a 2016 housing crisis talk - theBreaker On a 2016 trip to Vancouver, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau held a housing affordability roundtable the morning after a private fundraiser with a Chinese Communist Party military veteran. thebreaker.news

@RealAndyLeeShow - Andy Lee - Special Rebel Rapporteur

I would say a lot of people making near-max donations to Justin Trudeau’s Papineau riding association from outside of Quebec - and particularly from British Columbia - before and during the 2015 election is not ordinary at all. See a pattern? It’s rather extraordinary, actually. https://t.co/5kIXIxQfoL

RealAndyLeeShow
Posted - March 13, 2024 at 3:39 AM
Saved - March 13, 2024 at 1:40 PM
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A series of posts reveal the funding and organization behind the Palestinian protests in Canada. The Palestinian Youth Movement (PYM) is a transnational grassroots movement involved in organizing the protests. Collaborators include SJP Carleton, Labour for Palestine Ottawa, and INSAF uOttawa. These organizations raise funds, some of which are donated to Islamic Relief Canada. Islamic Relief Canada has faced allegations of anti-Semitism and receives federal grants. The BDS movement is also involved, promoting boycotts of Jewish businesses. PYM runs various fundraisers and offers scholarships. The WESPAC Foundation, based in New York, supports PYM and has connections to the PFLP, a designated terrorist group. The executive director of WESPAC, Nada Khader, was a former UN employee. These international organizations fuel protests that have resulted in anti-Semitic behavior and disorder. The protests lack transparency and receive government funding. They intimidate and harm Jewish communities and businesses.

@RealAndyLeeShow - Andy Lee - Special Rebel Rapporteur

They won’t do it, so I will. Who is funding some of the massive “grassroots” Palestinian protests in Canada? They are planning on shutting down Ottawa tomorrow. I’ll tell you exactly who is organizing and funding it. A thread: 1/

@p00rpete - PeterPitterPatter

This stuff is super well organized... it would be nice if some of the journalists who lied about the trucker Convoy spent some time figuring out who's funding these protests

@RealAndyLeeShow - Andy Lee - Special Rebel Rapporteur

This event poster for the protest in Ottawa tomorrow was shared by the Palestinian Youth Movement (PYM) on their Instagram. It calls for a “global day of action” to “stop the world for Gaza.” What is the Palestinian Youth Movement? 2/

@RealAndyLeeShow - Andy Lee - Special Rebel Rapporteur

They describe themselves as a “transnational, independent, and grassroots movement of Palestinian and Arab youth struggling for the liberation of our homeland.” They also run a backup account at “palyouthmvmt.” Transnational. OK. 3/

@RealAndyLeeShow - Andy Lee - Special Rebel Rapporteur

The collaborators tagged into the event with PYM are SJP Carleton, Labour for Palestine Ottawa, and INSAF uOttawa. Let’s have a look at them first. 4/

@RealAndyLeeShow - Andy Lee - Special Rebel Rapporteur

SJP (Students for Justice in Palestine) Carleton raise funds in conjunction with other organizations which are donated to Islamic Relief Canada. They also have another fundraiser on their site where you can donate to various causes or sign petitions. 5/

@RealAndyLeeShow - Andy Lee - Special Rebel Rapporteur

If Islamic Relief Canada sounds familiar, that’s because they launched a defamation lawsuit to fight against “misinformation.” They won the lawsuit, claiming that allegations were “unfounded.” Islamic Relief Canada also receives millions from taxpayers in federal grants. 6/

@RealAndyLeeShow - Andy Lee - Special Rebel Rapporteur

NGO Monitor has this to say about them, as an affiliate of Islamic Relief Worldwide (IRW): - The US State Department cut ties with IRW due to “anti-Semitism exhibited repeatedly by IRW’s leadership.” - Islamic Relief Canada states it works “alongside the Ministry of Health” in Gaza. This is a Hamas entity. https://www.ngo-monitor.org/reports/canadian-government-matching-humanitarian-funds/ 7/

Canadian Government Matching Humanitarian Funds: NGO Partners with Terror Links » ngomonitor On October 27, the Canadian government announced it would match donations, up to $10 million, for the Humanitarian Coalition’s Gaza Humanitarian Emergency Appeal. ngo-monitor.org

@RealAndyLeeShow - Andy Lee - Special Rebel Rapporteur

Let’s move onto Labour for Palestine Ottawa. It’s a “pan-Canadian network of labour activists in solidarity with Palestinian workers and communities in their struggle for liberation.” 8/ https://t.co/MSfKNrzhDY

@RealAndyLeeShow - Andy Lee - Special Rebel Rapporteur

They feature standoffs with law enforcement prominently on their Instagram, claiming that bylaw officers and the police are “harassing” their community. 9/ https://t.co/C7Lgr14mbP

@RealAndyLeeShow - Andy Lee - Special Rebel Rapporteur

Naturally, they have another fundraiser going. You can e-transfer funds to them and their “Community Defence Fund” which will go towards tickets, legal defence, charges that may occur, and “other costs identified by PYM, IJV, and L4P” to “grow” the Palestine solidarity movement. 10/

@RealAndyLeeShow - Andy Lee - Special Rebel Rapporteur

What is the “Palestine solidarity movement?” Click on the link provided, and it takes you straight to the BDS website. BDS stands for “Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions.” BDS was of course responsible for the recent boycotts and harassment of Jewish businesses in Canada. 11/ https://t.co/VubVHHO5TJ

@RealAndyLeeShow - Andy Lee - Special Rebel Rapporteur

BDS maintains a “list of shame” on their site, dedicated to identifying Jewish businesses to boycott. Cafe Landwer is listed as a target. Diners were harassed and intimidated at the cafe. Other companies on the list have been vandalized, prompting hate crime investigations. 12/ https://t.co/HVHyDle88X

@RealAndyLeeShow - Andy Lee - Special Rebel Rapporteur

And of course… there is another fundraiser on the BDS Movement website, which is “essential to keep this movement growing.” You can donate once or monthly… in USD. The plot thickens. I thought these were domestic grassroots protests? 13/ https://t.co/RcNp7NWwty

@RealAndyLeeShow - Andy Lee - Special Rebel Rapporteur

Let’s circle back to the ringleader. The Palestinian Youth Movement (PYM). I think we should all learn more about the organization that is spearheading massive demonstrations in our country. 14/ https://t.co/0md5NUh1Ww

@RealAndyLeeShow - Andy Lee - Special Rebel Rapporteur

There are numerous actions available on the PYM website. You can sign petitions, purchase tickets to events, pay someone’s bail, submit complaints, try to get your charges dropped… you name it. And of course… there is another fundraiser. 15/ https://t.co/wzS6JNihbf

@RealAndyLeeShow - Andy Lee - Special Rebel Rapporteur

And what a glorious fundraiser it is. Look at that cash. If that doesn’t suit you, you can always pick up a bit of PYM merch instead. Your choice! 16/ https://t.co/ZghYdrqr0d

@RealAndyLeeShow - Andy Lee - Special Rebel Rapporteur

If you have any trouble, or maybe want to enquire about a scholarship (which yes, they provide), or would like to get involved, you have an entire organized “National Executive Board” you can direct questions to. I have a few. 17/ https://t.co/hJvK5Y3nB1

@RealAndyLeeShow - Andy Lee - Special Rebel Rapporteur

They post special fundraisers on their Instagram, where your money will be matched by a mysterious “generous community member.” They apparently have no paid staff despite being able to organize scholarships, and promise it all goes back into “building liberation movements.” 18/ https://t.co/F4BZU0KcoM

@RealAndyLeeShow - Andy Lee - Special Rebel Rapporteur

To promote the fundraisers, they post videos of the community being “harassed” by law enforcement (ticketed for bylaw violations). They then direct you to donate to their “Community Defence Fund”, which pumps the money right back into PYM’s general donation fund. 19/ https://t.co/zUXB2MrqNO

@RealAndyLeeShow - Andy Lee - Special Rebel Rapporteur

They call Ottawa Police Service (OPS) the “KKK” and liken them to the IOF (Israeli Occupation Forces). Nothing like some of white supremacy vibes to get the anger and the money flowing. It’s followed by instructions of ways to “support.” 20/ https://t.co/9BLXEphiOs

@RealAndyLeeShow - Andy Lee - Special Rebel Rapporteur

How do you support PYM? Well, you can donate online. Again, all donations are in USD. Or, you can donate to something called the “WESPAC Foundation” by mailing a cheque to them in New York. Please indicate PYM - Ottawa March in the memo line! 21/ https://t.co/r9yklWuc0Y

@RealAndyLeeShow - Andy Lee - Special Rebel Rapporteur

I wanted to know more about this organization. All about it. So, I found some information on it. They promote the leaders of the designated terrorist group the PFLP (Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine). They also seem to celebrate throwing Molotov cocktails. 22/ https://t.co/Zzb4Eh7lA7

@RealAndyLeeShow - Andy Lee - Special Rebel Rapporteur

I also found an interview with one of the leaders of the PYM, Kaleem Hawa, which gave me some insight into their thought-processes, motivations and goals. “Liberation necessarily engenders resistance in all forms.” All forms. Like say, sexual torture. 23/ https://t.co/cNwLPL7R9c

@RealAndyLeeShow - Andy Lee - Special Rebel Rapporteur

Kaleem goes on to state that every major political formation in Palestine is engaged in armed resistance, and that it’s naive to think a ceasefire will mean that “Palestinians are relinquishing their commitment to resistance.” I thought everyone wanted a peaceful solution? 24/ https://t.co/S0vD0Thy4s

@RealAndyLeeShow - Andy Lee - Special Rebel Rapporteur

So, so far we have an international organization receiving donations from Canada in New York that supports to a degree the leaders of the PFLP (who are terrorists), resistance in “all forms,” who don’t seem to think that a ceasefire is going to do the trick. What is WESPAC? 25/ https://t.co/2fvCOUazhi

@RealAndyLeeShow - Andy Lee - Special Rebel Rapporteur

According to its site, it is a foundation that has been “a leading force for progressive social change.” They want to end racism, militarism, have a more peaceful world, and all that good stuff. 26/ https://t.co/lwu3qTjWOg

@RealAndyLeeShow - Andy Lee - Special Rebel Rapporteur

The about section of WESPAC on its site is written by Executive Director Nada Khader. She’s listed on a smattering of other sites like the American Friends of Combatants for Peace (combatants for peace?), and the War Resistors League. More fundraisers, more merch. 27/ https://t.co/GXJjeNNSn2

@RealAndyLeeShow - Andy Lee - Special Rebel Rapporteur

She’s something else as well. She was formerly a consultant for the U.N. Development Program in the Gaza Strip. A former United Nations employee fuelling protests internationally that have resulted in anti-Semitic behaviour, disorder and chaos. Why am I not surprised? 28/ https://t.co/oGFiLjuJnX

@RealAndyLeeShow - Andy Lee - Special Rebel Rapporteur

Naturally, she rallies for aid for UNRWA despite their alleged involvement in the gruesome October 7th attacks, and fundraises for the organization as well through WESPAC amidst calls to halt funding to UNRWA due to their involvement with Hamas. 29/ https://t.co/Y27qp0oVWw

@RealAndyLeeShow - Andy Lee - Special Rebel Rapporteur

I could go on here, but I think we’ve seen enough. In short, international organizations are mobilizing affiliates in Canada and around the world and funding these “grassroots” protests under the guise of social justice and wanting a “ceasefire,” causing civil unrest while their partners endorse terrorism. They are powered by a web of intertwined domestic and foreign NGOs and non-profits with poor transparency. Fundraising is extensive and difficult to track. They receive government funding from taxpayers. Their mobs intimidate, harass and harm Jewish communities and their businesses. They don’t respect law and order, and they use confrontations to grow their audiences and their cash flows. And tomorrow, as smoke bombs fill the air amidst chants for “Intifada,”they will shut down our capital. Again. Fin. 30/

@RealAndyLeeShow - Andy Lee - Special Rebel Rapporteur

Adding in a mega thread from the talented @RukhsanaSukhan.

@RukhsanaSukhan - Bad Hijabi 🇨🇦🍁

/131 Wespac Foundation 🧵🪡

RealAndyLeeShow
Posted - March 2, 2024 at 11:20 AM
Saved - March 3, 2024 at 1:35 AM
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In the Winnipeg lab story, scientists received shipments labeled as "kitchen utensils" from China, which turned out to contain mouse protein. This incident raises concerns about trust in the system, with some blaming the government for the lack of transparency. Additionally, receiving unexpected biohazardous substances instead of anticipated items can be quite surprising.

@RealAndyLeeShow - Andy Lee - Special Rebel Rapporteur

My favourite part of the Winnipeg lab story has got to be the part where the scientists received shipments in vials from colleagues in China labelled “kitchen utensils” and no one knew what substance was in them so they had to test them and found out they contained mouse protein. https://t.co/0s56cLc3pQ

@jasonjamesbnn - Jason James

Trudeau says his cover-up of the Winnipeg lab leaks to China is a conspiracy theory that undermines trust in the system. No, Justin. These are facts and it's your government that caused Canadians to stop trusting the system. You broke it. https://t.co/YuGIOxt1mr

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Our government is committed to ensuring the safety of our research institutions amidst growing threats. We are investigating issues at the Winnipeg Labs and taking necessary actions. Unfortunately, the Conservative party is using this serious matter for political gain, spreading conspiracy theories and hindering progress. Responsible debates are welcome, but weaponizing national security is not the way to go. It's disappointing to see certain members suddenly vocal on security issues while remaining silent on other important matters. This behavior is not fitting for an official opposition.
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Speaker 0: Our security systems, our our intelligence and security agencies, flag problems at the Winnipeg Labs, that were followed up on. We know as a country that increasingly, countries like China and others are trying to either influence or get secrets out of our country. And that's why we have to continue to be extraordinarily vigilant about how we're, making sure we're doing everything necessary to keep people safe, to keep our research institutions safe. As a government, we've taken many, many initiatives, and I've, tasked our national security and intelligence adviser, to look even deeper at this Winnipeg's lab situation and make recommendations on how we can move forward appropriately. This is, something that people would expect governments to take seriously and expect all parliamentarians to take seriously. Unfortunately, throughout this process, we have seen the conservative party, specifically Pierre Poliyev, choosing to spew conspiracy theories and drum up political attacks, partisan attacks, on an issue that quite frankly should be bringing Canadians and parliamentarians together to try and solve this. The quickness with which they're looking for partisan advantage is not just undermining Canadians' trust in the system, but interfering with the ability of parliament to deal with this. One of the reasons it has taken so long to get this report into parliament is because of the choice that conservatives made to try and extract any amount of political advantage by drumming up a level of of partisanship and toxicity that is not serving Canadians. There's lots of opportunity to have responsible political debates about how we're moving forward as a country and what needs to be fixed, what's being done well, what needs to be done better. Absolutely. That's part of the give and take in our democracy. But the choice to weaponize national security in a way that is rife with conspiracy theories, and partisan attacks is a choice that I don't think is worthy of the kind of responsible leadership that Canadians deserve. I will also add that, hearing, 2 particular conservative members, Michael Chong and James Bezan, suddenly being front and center on issues of security and international impact after having been complete ghosts over the past number of months on anything to do with standing up for Ukraine, for example, or even on the matter of, their colleague, Lesleyn Lewis, calling for a withdrawal from the United Nations of Canada, they won't say a thing. But when it comes to making partisan attacks out of an issue that should be taken seriously by all parliamentarians is not worthy of an official opposition.

@RealAndyLeeShow - Andy Lee - Special Rebel Rapporteur

Imagine waiting for your package to arrive in the Winnipeg NML and thinking your new set of tongs or that fancy Bunsen burner you’ve always wanted has FINALLY arrived, and BAM - you’ve got a shipment of unknown biohazard goop from China on your hands.

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Posted - February 29, 2024 at 2:01 AM
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@RealAndyLeeShow - Andy Lee - Special Rebel Rapporteur

Holy smokes get with the program. These pathogen transfers were in the works before the Institute of Virology in Wuhan was accredited as a BSL-4 laboratory. https://t.co/gJ9OyRayBL

@stphnmaher - Stephen Maher

Shocking incompetence. And why are we only learning this now?

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Posted - February 23, 2024 at 12:45 PM
Saved - February 29, 2024 at 8:03 PM

@RealAndyLeeShow - Andy Lee - Special Rebel Rapporteur

This is Chen Wei (陈薇), a scientist at the Academy of Military Sciences, who we collaborated with and sent deadly virus samples to via the National Microbiology Lab in Winnipeg. She was awarded the title of Major General by Xi Jinping in 2015. She’s called “the People’s Hero.” https://t.co/cKdP6vIE1d

@acoyne - Andrew Coyne 🇺🇦🇮🇱

“One high-profile Chinese researcher, Feihu Yan of the People’s Liberation Army’s Academy of Military Medical Sciences, worked for a period at the Winnipeg lab. Dr Qiu also collaborated on Ebola research w/Maj-Gen Chen Wei, the Chinese military’s top epidemiologist & virologist.”

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Posted - February 29, 2024 at 6:34 PM
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@RealAndyLeeShow - Andy Lee - Special Rebel Rapporteur

We sent deadly pathogens from the Winnipeg NML to this woman at the Chinese Academy of Sciences who was partnered with Dr. Xiangguo Qiu - Major General Chen Wei of the People’s Liberation Army - who specializes in biodefense and bioterrorism. And we hardly asked any questions. https://t.co/y7n2AWswya

@cbcwatcher - cbcwatcher

Poilieve quotes passages from the Winnipeg virology lab documents Trudeau fought so hard to cover-up... Boom! 💥 https://t.co/IdoSjSyULN

Video Transcript AI Summary
Government documents reveal that Dr. Chu, head of the special pathogens unit at the Winnipeg lab, poses a serious threat to Canada's security. She has been in contact with foreign entities, including conducting joint research with a top virologist from the People's Liberation Army in China. This raises concerns about the potential theft of dangerous materials and espionage activities that could harm Canada's economic security.
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Speaker 0: Government documents, the Trudeau government's own documents. It says here on page 142, Winnipeg lab scientist doctor Chu is head of the special pathogens unit, the top person in that job. According to documents on page 242, quote, represents a serious and credible danger to the government of Canada as a whole and, in particular, at facilities considered high security due to the potential for theft of dangerous materials attractive to terrorists and foreign entities that conduct espionage to infiltrate and damage the economic security of Canada, end quote. It states further on page 239, investigators assess that doctor Chu communicated with foreign entities during her trips to China. The evidence obtained from interviews and from information collected from the electronic content of her devices reveal that this is indeed the case. As a subject matter expert with access to sensitive information and dangerous materials, Doctor. Chiu presents a realistic and credible threat to Canada's economic security when conducting repeated and clandestine meetings with foreign entities, end quote. Then it says doctor Chu conducted joint research with the major general Chen Wei of the People's Liberation Army who, according to page 236, is a noted top virologist at the Academy of Military Medical Scientists and is China's chief biologic biological defense expert engaged in research related to biosafety, biodefense and bioterrorism.
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Posted - February 29, 2024 at 6:35 AM
Saved - February 29, 2024 at 2:09 PM

@RealAndyLeeShow - Andy Lee - Special Rebel Rapporteur

I'm reading emails from PHAC about the Ebola shipment from Winnipeg to China. I'm shocked. They don't know how to pack it. They don't know what forms to use. They don't know the shipment route. NOBODY asks why China wants it. One email actually just says "Fingers crossed!" https://t.co/ROAWZRpzTS

@RealAndyLeeShow - Andy Lee - Special Rebel Rapporteur

I love how casual these conversations are between Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) employees: "Where's the deadly Ebola virus being shipped to again guys?" "Oh, to the Chinese Academy of Science? In Wuhan, you say? Cool, cool. No problem. Keep us in the loop." https://t.co/LWtQbEztpO

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Posted - February 20, 2024 at 9:18 AM
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@RealAndyLeeShow - Andy Lee - Special Rebel Rapporteur

Just imagine how terrifying these moments were. When you were trying to avoid being snatched and arrested for exercising your Charter rights. This is Canada as a protestor under the rule of Justin Trudeau during the illegal invocation of the Emergencies Act. https://t.co/gSe9e5SFg1

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Posted - February 9, 2024 at 9:42 PM
Saved - February 10, 2024 at 3:51 AM
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The Canadian Climate Institute received $30,000,000 from the government but has no charity work. They claimed over $200,000 for office supplies, yet their office is tiny. It's unclear where the money is going.

@RealAndyLeeShow - Andy Lee - Special Rebel Rapporteur

We found another headquarters for the Canadian Climate Institute, registered at 192 Spadina Ave., Suite 316, in Toronto. This “charity” received $30,000,000 from the federal government, yet CRA filings show zero dollars allocated to charity work. It’s exactly as we expected. 🎥 credit: @KloetMichelle. Give her a hand everyone.

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The speaker asks about the cost of the spaces, which is confirmed to be $1600 per month. They agree that this price is reasonable and mention the size of the space being similar to Hampton.
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Speaker 0: How much would these spaces be? 1600 per month. That sounds about right? Yeah. Size of Hampton. Yeah. Of course.

@RealAndyLeeShow - Andy Lee - Special Rebel Rapporteur

“Yes? Is this the federal government of Canada? Yes. This is the Canadian Climate Institute. You can just mail our $30,000,000 cheque to this location. Bobcaygeon. That's right. No, no - it's not a cottage. It's a chalet. Thank you for your donation.” https://t.co/TpxykGBCx3

@RealAndyLeeShow - Andy Lee - Special Rebel Rapporteur

Oh, and the Canadian Climate Institute deducted over $200,000 for office supplies on its last CRA filing. Ummm, the office is the size of a bathroom, and there’s like three chairs, two desks and a bookshelf in there.

@RealAndyLeeShow - Andy Lee - Special Rebel Rapporteur

Corporate record search says they have another office at 192 Spadina. Right beside “Shroom City.” They better have an office, since they claimed over $200,000 in office supply expenses last year. 🤪 https://t.co/lzrNSB74sb

@RealAndyLeeShow - Andy Lee - Special Rebel Rapporteur

So…. Where does the money go, exactly? It’s not going to its office space obviously. 🤣

@RealAndyLeeShow - Andy Lee - Special Rebel Rapporteur

How can a registered “charity”receiving federal funding from taxpayers (the Canadian Climate Institute) have no - like, as in zero - expenditures going towards charitable activities? I have questions. https://t.co/Kd8oZj5QXS

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Posted - January 29, 2024 at 6:27 PM
Saved - January 30, 2024 at 1:48 AM

@RealAndyLeeShow - Andy Lee - Special Rebel Rapporteur

In Ottawa? That was the following day. We had a dancing drum circle. The beat was obviously a secret code instructing extremist white supremacists to carry out an insurrection. Everybody knows that! https://t.co/vnFw7aJGtp

@HeadSpaceSpace1 - Gordon Johnson

@RealAndyLeeShow What day did the terrorism start? 🤔

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Posted - January 29, 2024 at 9:55 PM
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The Office of the Procurement Ombudsman's report reveals that the individuals responsible for the ArriveCAN application breach lacked the necessary security requirements when they were awarded the contract. Check out the report for more details.

@RealAndyLeeShow - Andy Lee - Special Rebel Rapporteur

In other exciting ArriveCAN news, the Office of the Procurement Ombudsman has released a report concluding that the two fellows working out of their riverfront cottage on the application who ran off with millions did not (gasp!) have the proper security requirements when the contract was awarded. https://opo-boa.gc.ca/praapp-prorev/2024/epa-ppr-01-2024-eng.html Credit: @ritikadutt

@RealAndyLeeShow - Andy Lee - Special Rebel Rapporteur

Liberals gave a $2.35 million ArriveCAN contract requesting 11 employees to two fellows who employed no one and operated out of their home. The contract grew to $9 million, the guys made millions subcontracting the work out, and this is exactly what is wrong with this government. https://t.co/wB9ZdklwRB

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Posted - January 29, 2024 at 4:56 PM
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@RealAndyLeeShow - Andy Lee - Special Rebel Rapporteur

WeChat posts shared ahead of the 2021 election warn that Conservative Kenny Chiu has introduced foreign registry legislation that will be used to “suppress the Chinese community.” @PIFIEPIE https://t.co/Mwgh2dHGzp

@NyaPfanner - Nya Pfannerstill

Canada’s Foreign Affairs knew that Election Interference was being coordinated in WeChat, but since no one would answer the phone, (and that the intereference helped Liberals), they didn’t do anything about it From @mindingottawa https://t.co/ubgnvVzws4

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Posted - January 27, 2024 at 9:38 PM
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Chinese-Canadians and pro-Beijing associations allegedly influenced the 2021 election by defeating Conservatives Alice Wong and Kenny Chiu, according to a WeChat article from the "Overseas Chinese News Network." The article highlights victory posts on WeChat celebrating Richmond turning "red." @RmdKenny.

@RealAndyLeeShow - Andy Lee - Special Rebel Rapporteur

A WeChat article brags about Chinese-Canadians and pro-Beijing associations altering the outcome of the 2021 election by defeating Conservatives Alice Wong and Kenny Chiu. It talks of a flood of victory posts on WeChat about turning Richmond “red”. The source is 侨报网等 - the “Overseas Chinese News Network.” @RmdKenny

@yuenpauwoo - Yuen Pau Woo

The @globeandmail continues to propagate election denialism and insult Richmond voters by uncritically accepting Mr Chiu’s claim about social media disinformation https://policyoptions.irpp.org/magazines/january-2022/election-disinformation-claims-and-kenny-chius-richmond-riding/

Election disinformation claims and Kenny Chiu’s Richmond riding Social media posts on Kenny Chiu’s foreign influence bill were legitimate debate, not disinformation. policyoptions.irpp.org
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Posted - November 22, 2022 at 10:21 PM
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@RealAndyLeeShow - Andy Lee - Special Rebel Rapporteur

These notes I understand are written by Alex Jagric and also mention Justin Trudeau’s National Security Advisor, Jody Thomas. So, she was also aware that CSIS had stated the legal threshold for the EA was not met: “Violence not met.” Can’t imagine why all this was redacted? https://t.co/Vi0pxJFjAY

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Posted - December 29, 2022 at 3:40 AM
Saved - January 25, 2024 at 1:42 AM

@RealAndyLeeShow - Andy Lee - Special Rebel Rapporteur

Liberals gave a $2.35 million ArriveCAN contract requesting 11 employees to two fellows who employed no one and operated out of their home. The contract grew to $9 million, the guys made millions subcontracting the work out, and this is exactly what is wrong with this government. https://t.co/wB9ZdklwRB

@RealAndyLeeShow - Andy Lee - Special Rebel Rapporteur

One of the five contractors working on the ArriveCAN app won a non-competitive contract worth $14,000,000. The company has four employees, little history, their own website doesn’t work, and the business mailing address listed leads to a lakefront cottage. Nothing to see here. https://t.co/HgTURnruF4

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Posted - December 6, 2022 at 4:57 PM
Saved - January 16, 2024 at 10:32 PM

@RealAndyLeeShow - Andy Lee - Special Rebel Rapporteur

This is super. The Auditor General reports that government paid $1.6 billion in COVID benefits to people who quit their jobs, $4.6 million to double-dippers, $6.1 million to jailbirds, $3.3 million to foreign citizens, $2.2 million to children, and $1.2 million to dead people.

@RealAndyLeeShow - Andy Lee - Special Rebel Rapporteur

A report by the Auditor General has found that the government’s lax approach to doling out COVID-19 payments resulted in $4.6 billion in overpayments being made to ineligible recipients, and that at least $27.4 billion more payments should be investigated. https://www.oag-bvg.gc.ca/internet/English/parl_oag_202212_10_e_44176.html

Report 10—Specific COVID-19 Benefits oag-bvg.gc.ca
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Posted - January 10, 2024 at 1:43 AM
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reSee.it AI Summary
Rebel News has provided me with a platform to publish and legal protection. Together, we have published more on foreign influence than corporate media. The focus is on various issues, including foreign interference, Chinese candidates, nuclear technology, and connections with Liberal MPs. There is a call for action, such as implementing a foreign agent registry law and protecting whistleblowers. The posts emphasize the importance of freedom of the press and highlight the work done by Rebel News.

@RealAndyLeeShow - Andy Lee - Special Rebel Rapporteur

Rebel News picked me up and gave me a place to publish, and legal protection to do it safely without fear of reprisal. Since then, together, we’ve likely published more original work on foreign influence than our entire corporate media combined. They’re fearless heroes. Read. 1/

@BenMulroney - Ben Mulroney

Look, this is pretty simple stuff: one's personal opinions about Rebel News don't matter. You either believe in freedom of the press or you don't. https://nationalpost.com/news/politics/election-2021/judge-to-rule-today-whether-rebel-news-may-be-accredited-to-cover-the-leaders-debates

Rebel News wins court battle to cover leaders’ debates, will accredit 11 journalists 'Today we scored one for liberty,' said founder Ezra Levant of the ruling nationalpost.com

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@RealAndyLeeShow - Andy Lee - Special Rebel Rapporteur

In a heated mayoral race, one Chinese candidate with a mysterious background and ties to Justin Trudeau is being overlooked: Edward Xiaohua Gong. My latest on our ongoing foreign interference saga: https://www.rebelnews.com/in_a_heated_mayoral_race_one_chinese_candidate_with_a_mysterious_background_and_ties_to_justin_trudeau_is_being_overlooked

In a heated mayoral race, one Chinese candidate with a mysterious background and ties to Justin Trudeau is being overlooked A Chinese immigrant who came to Canada in 2002, Gong, a businessman who established Edward International Group, is also the owner and founder of Markham-based Chinese-language media outlets Canada National Television (CNTV) and Canadian National Chinese Television. rebelnews.com

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@RealAndyLeeShow - Andy Lee - Special Rebel Rapporteur

My latest. SNC-Lavalin sold off our nuclear technology to state-owned China National Nuclear Corporation in 2016. They used it to build technology superior to our own, and SNC continues to deal with the company, despite it being sanctioned by the U.S. in 2020. Why China Wins:

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@RealAndyLeeShow - Andy Lee - Special Rebel Rapporteur

My latest in news that shocks no one anymore: Chinese diplomat who was expelled from Canada for making threats met with community association promoted by Liberal MPs. Its head just helped organize a recent protest against a foreign agent registry. Had enough yet?

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@RealAndyLeeShow - Andy Lee - Special Rebel Rapporteur

My latest: Why is a non-profit organization that was founded by Senator Woo and is funded by taxpayers using Senate resources to amplify messaging against a proposed foreign agent registry?

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@RealAndyLeeShow - Andy Lee - Special Rebel Rapporteur

My latest in news that shocks nobody: Expelled diplomat at the centre of Chinese interference scandal who threatened a Conservative parliamentarian frequented events with Liberal MPs.

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@RealAndyLeeShow - Andy Lee - Special Rebel Rapporteur

My latest in nothing-to-see-here: The owner of a “Canadian” media outlet based out of Beijing threw her support behind Justin Trudeau’s 2015 election campaign. She also coincidentally meets with the United Front Work Department in China in her spare time.

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@RealAndyLeeShow - Andy Lee - Special Rebel Rapporteur

My latest. We don’t need to attack David Johnston’s character or integrity. All we need to attack is his report, because it lacks merit, and is based on an incomplete intelligence review. Its findings should be rejected.

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@RealAndyLeeShow - Andy Lee - Special Rebel Rapporteur

David Johnston addressed and dismissed every media allegation in his report except for one - the Globe’s claim that money was funnelled to the Trudeau Foundation from the PRC in 2014. No more “rapporteuring,” thanks. A public inquiry dating back to 2013 is needed. My latest:

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@RealAndyLeeShow - Andy Lee - Special Rebel Rapporteur

My latest: GAC recently revealed that Michael Chong has been targeted online once again. I traced the campaign back to the People’s Daily- the official press of the Central Committee of the Communist Party. Why is the People’s Daily permitted to run an overseas bureau in Canada?

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My latest: Ousted Chinese diplomat who reportedly threatened the family of Michael Chong seen with leaders of the controversial pro-Beijing association now under investigation for being an 'overseas Chinese police station.’

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@RealAndyLeeShow - Andy Lee - Special Rebel Rapporteur

My latest: Xixi Li once met with Justin Trudeau and also claimed there were “no connections” between her centres which are under RCMP investigation and the Chinese Communist Party. A meet she attended in China shows that’s not true. Why is everybody lying about what they know?

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@RealAndyLeeShow - Andy Lee - Special Rebel Rapporteur

My latest on our foreign interference saga: Justin Trudeau’s six second pause tells us everything we need to know about why he doesn’t want a foreign agent registry law in Canada.

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@RealAndyLeeShow - Andy Lee - Special Rebel Rapporteur

My latest: Guilbeault is a perfect fit for the China Council (CCICED), because it is funded by the same people that bankroll Extinction Rebellion - the enviro-radicals that superglue themselves to roads. They have one thing in common: a desire to destroy our fossil fuel industry.

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@RealAndyLeeShow - Andy Lee - Special Rebel Rapporteur

My latest: After commenting during a committee that a public inquiry into foreign interference would be too “expensive” to pursue, an Inquiry of Ministry has found that $5 million was allocated to the now-resigned “Special Rapporteur’s” legal team, led by a Liberal Party donor.

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@RealAndyLeeShow - Andy Lee - Special Rebel Rapporteur

My latest on the Han Dong saga:

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@RealAndyLeeShow - Andy Lee - Special Rebel Rapporteur

My latest in appalling news: Long-time Liberal supporter and Justin Trudeau campaign worker that frequently met with the United Front Work Department in China also connected with our Chinese Ambassador Cong Peiwu; conference was held discussing how to "resolutely smash any Taiwan independence attempts.” @csiscanada

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@RealAndyLeeShow - Andy Lee - Special Rebel Rapporteur

My latest - The China Democracy Fund, led by a Canadian book publisher, is raising funds to protect journalists who are being threatened into silence using "lawfare." Senator Oh recently stated he would start fundraising efforts to sue journalists that "smear Chinese people."

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@RealAndyLeeShow - Andy Lee - Special Rebel Rapporteur

"As soon as possible." My latest on our foreign interference saga. Ethics committee urges the federal government to take immediate action to enact a foreign agent registration law. Justin Trudeau's government has been unable to explain the delays behind the implementation of one: It's "complex."

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@RealAndyLeeShow - Andy Lee - Special Rebel Rapporteur

My latest: the federal government is coming for our whistleblowers in the name of protecting our democracy. “Acting outside the rule of law makes illicit disclosures fundamentally anti-democratic."

@RealAndyLeeShow - Andy Lee - Special Rebel Rapporteur

If you are still pretending, after reading, that Rebel News is not a serious news outlet putting out serious work that is shining a light on stories that matter but aren’t covered anywhere else, and that they aren’t changing our country for the better, you’re part of the problem.

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Posted - January 6, 2024 at 2:37 AM
Saved - January 6, 2024 at 3:47 AM
reSee.it AI Summary
A small, wealthy elite controls the world, making decisions that benefit themselves and their supporters. We must acknowledge this reality and discuss it openly. The powerful fear social media and the internet because they level the playing field, allowing anyone to challenge them. Bad governments are falling, and people are reclaiming their power. Knowledge is power, and we should resist being governed. We rule governments.

@RealAndyLeeShow - Andy Lee - Special Rebel Rapporteur

There is a concentration of people in control of our world who run in relatively small, elite pockets of our population, whose power is largely dependant upon their personal wealth and/or capacity to influence. This tiny concentration make the bulk of the decisions for the other 99% of the population not privy to their inner circles, and those decisions oft benefit those people in power and enrich supporters and the ladder-climbers surrounding them that are chasing status - far more than the population they have control over. Saying this aloud had ought not be controversial. It is not a conspiracy, and should be shouted from our rooftops and discussed in civilian meetings. Powerful, controlling people will always try to maintain control. We need to take it from them. This is why they hate social media and the free press and the internet and want to control all of those things. They equalize any financial handicaps, they allow us to share and organize, and those who have everything have to face off against those who have nothing on their wits alone. They are losing, and badly. Anyone can achieve an equal if not greater politico-social status sans cronyism now and challenge them on a more level playing field, and they are crumbling under scrutiny. Bad governments are falling, and the people are resuming their rightful places as the supreme rulers of their countries. As the rightful order of things is restored, and the concentration of power is removed from the 1% and placed back into the hands of the 99%, more and more people will choose resistance over compliance. Knowledge is power. Consume it. We should always remain ungovernable. Governments do not rule us. We rule governments.

@diana_c2021 - Diana C #NoDigitalID #NoCBDC

@RealAndyLeeShow @David_Mulroney We live in the matrix. Red pill ‘em all, Andy. Go girl.

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Posted - December 31, 2023 at 6:29 AM
Saved - January 1, 2024 at 12:11 AM

@RealAndyLeeShow - Andy Lee - Special Rebel Rapporteur

Maybe you should. You might learn something. Here’s the first story I ever published. It’s about how taxpayers gave an undisclosed amount of subsidies to a company sanctioned in the States for military collaboration with China’s PLA. The company was then ordered out of Canada. https://niagaraindependent.ca/the-curious-case-of-china-mobile/

The curious case of China Mobile Citizens need not apply. How a sanctioned Chinese telecom giant came to collect from Canadian taxpayers. Photo credit: Bloomberg News/Qilai Shen   Time was of the essence, they said. The Canadian Emergency Wage Subsidy (CEWS) program, a pandemic support originally estimated to cost $48 billion, is arguably one of the largest corporate government support programs […] niagaraindependent.ca

@SteveRickettsSP - Steve Ricketts

@logistics_out @BEllisPolicy @RealAndyLeeShow trust me, i would never read anything Andy Lee writes

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Posted - December 17, 2023 at 4:58 PM
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@RealAndyLeeShow - Andy Lee - Special Rebel Rapporteur

That would be the ICAN Capital that Michael Chan signed agreements with as Immigration Minister to build infrastructure in Nanjing. The business address of “ICAN Capital” is located at a mansion in Richmond Hill which hosts multiple business entities, according to records.

@7Trg6 - 7LOV.vs.TRG6

President of the JCCC & Ican Capital, Chairman Jiang Rui (James) "As a member of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, he will also actively participate in leading foreign investment to come in and achieve win-win development." https://www.sohu.com/a/630726805_121448078

2023江苏省两会|省政协海外代表姜睿：积极引导外资企业走进来_加拿大_发展_未来 扬子晚报网1月16日讯（记者 季宇轩）“五年累计吸引外资1270亿美元，世界500强企业有392家在苏投资。”省政协海外代表，加拿大江苏国际商会会长、加拿大Ican Capital 公司董事长姜睿称，在省政府… sohu.com
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Posted - March 14, 2023 at 3:39 PM
Saved - December 18, 2023 at 4:08 PM
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One of Trudeau's top donors, Kuen Kwok, is accused of defrauding immigrants. Lawsuits claim he defrauded someone out of over $200,000 in connection with a bid to immigrate to Canada.

@RealAndyLeeShow - Andy Lee - Special Rebel Rapporteur

This is nice. One of Trudeau’s top donors, Kuen Kwok, was accused of defrauding immigrants. “In two lawsuits, Yaping Lai alleges that Kuen Yu Kwok, a self-described ‘prominent businessman and director of several companies,’ defrauded her out of more than $200000 in connection with a bid to immigrate to Canada.” https://biv.com/article/2016/08/cancer-agency-spinoff-faces-fraud-allegations

Cancer agency spinoff faces fraud allegations A would-be Chinese immigrant businesswoman is suing a troubled BC Cancer Agency spinoff company after a board member allegedly defrauded her out of more than $200,000 by promising to help fast-track her immigration application under the Provincial Nominee Program. biv.com

@RealAndyLeeShow - Andy Lee - Special Rebel Rapporteur

I would say a lot of people making near-max donations to Justin Trudeau’s Papineau riding association from outside of Quebec - and particularly from British Columbia - before and during the 2015 election is not ordinary at all. See a pattern? It’s rather extraordinary, actually. https://t.co/5kIXIxQfoL

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Posted - December 16, 2023 at 1:56 PM
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@RealAndyLeeShow - Andy Lee - Special Rebel Rapporteur

Former York police sergeant and Liberal Paul Chiang mingles with Weng Guoning at a Fujian Commerce Association of Canada event with disgraced MPP Vincent Ke and Chinese diplomats. Guoning is suspected of running overseas police stations and meets United Front officials in China. https://t.co/5pELjQPDPe

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Posted - December 13, 2023 at 7:44 AM
Saved - December 13, 2023 at 9:30 AM

@RealAndyLeeShow - Andy Lee - Special Rebel Rapporteur

Law enforcement came to my house and there is something wrong.

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Posted - December 12, 2023 at 2:39 PM
Saved - December 13, 2023 at 4:35 AM

@RealAndyLeeShow - Andy Lee - Special Rebel Rapporteur

Unnamed police officers attend the celebration of the 70th Anniversary of the Founding of the People's Republic of China with Consul General Han Tao. Caption: The event showed the motherland cares for the safety of its overseas sons and daughters in the safe zone. Trust no one. https://t.co/1DZQMyp2aW

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Posted - December 12, 2023 at 10:11 PM
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@RealAndyLeeShow - Andy Lee - Special Rebel Rapporteur

Canada under Justin Trudeau’s rule sides with Iran, Russia, Syria, Libya, and North Korea in a United Nations vote against condemning Hamas. Like any country led by a dictatorship-admiring prime minister would.

@HillelNeuer - Hillel Neuer

Justin Trudeau joins the jackals. Britain, Netherlands, Germany & 30 others refused to support a text that failed to condemn Hamas and calls into question Israel's right to defend itself. But you, @JustinTrudeau, you voted for it—with Iran, Russia, Syria, Libya & North Korea.

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Posted - December 11, 2023 at 2:13 PM
Saved - December 11, 2023 at 2:48 PM

@RealAndyLeeShow - Andy Lee - Special Rebel Rapporteur

Former Liberal MP Han Dong appears in a 2021 video alongside Huawei shortly after two Canadian citizens were released after being held captive by the Chinese government, during a period when the federal government was stalling on banning the company from its 5G network.

@M_Johnston1 - Margaret McCuaig-Johnston

This is also what China is doing to get around our university national security reviews — Huawei is setting up a research group with UofA’s profs just outside the university, with commercialisation in parallel to that research group. https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/article-ai-openmind-huawei/

Top AI researcher launches new Alberta lab with Huawei funds after Ottawa restrictions Richard Sutton, a professor at the University of Alberta, is launching the Openmind Research Institute based in Edmonton with $4.8-million in funding from Huawei Canada theglobeandmail.com
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Posted - December 24, 2022 at 3:41 PM
Saved - December 10, 2023 at 2:00 AM
reSee.it AI Summary
The $4.5 million CBSA contract with Dalian/Coradix for the ArriveCAN app predates the pandemic. The government amended the contract twice, increasing it to $16.7 million. Thirteen employees' pay was redacted. The app's purpose was questioned, as it allowed the government to collect data under broad Privacy Act exemptions. The Liberals used the pandemic as an excuse to implement the app with minimal oversight, claiming it was for public safety. This conduct is concerning.

@RealAndyLeeShow - Andy Lee - Special Rebel Rapporteur

Included in an access to information request released on contractors working on the ArriveCAN application is a $4.5 million CBSA contract with Dalian/Coradix which was dated August 8, 2019. That contract predates the pandemic. Still think ArriveCAN was “all about your health?”

@RealAndyLeeShow - Andy Lee - Special Rebel Rapporteur

This is the contract from the government of Canada’s website. It appears a border application was perhaps already in the works before the pandemic hit. Is that why the Liberals fought so hard against scrapping it? https://buyandsell.gc.ca/procurement-data/contract-history/47419-206529-001-EL

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@RealAndyLeeShow - Andy Lee - Special Rebel Rapporteur

Of course, I never thought it was about your health. I always thought it was a method for the government to collect and use your data under broad Privacy Act exemptions built into the ArriveCAN application.

@RealAndyLeeShow - Andy Lee - Special Rebel Rapporteur

@LayThemBare @JCCFCanada Privacy Act exemptions for the ArriveCAN application, and the circumstances under which your data can be used by the government and other institutions. It’s not about your health, folks.

@RealAndyLeeShow - Andy Lee - Special Rebel Rapporteur

Right before the ArriveCAN app was launched in April of 2020, the government contract to Dalian/Coradix was amended. The new contract awarded was for $10.8 million - more than double the amount of the original contract. https://t.co/HJUzHvNCte

@RealAndyLeeShow - Andy Lee - Special Rebel Rapporteur

That number then continued to balloon. The government ArriveCAN app contract with Dalian/Coradix was further amended and increased to almost $16.8 million only two short months later - an increase of almost $5.9 million. https://t.co/ZWi2xkS4GY

@RealAndyLeeShow - Andy Lee - Special Rebel Rapporteur

What were we getting for our taxpayer money out of this $16.8 million ArriveCAN app contract with Dalian/Coradix? Thirteen employees whose pay was redacted and remains unknown. https://t.co/KkcullZymC

@RealAndyLeeShow - Andy Lee - Special Rebel Rapporteur

The ArriveCAN app government contract with Dalian/Coradix was also amended - despite having already grown by about 4 times its original amount in just under a year - to include “travel and living expenses.” Standard taxpayer-funded fare for remote software developers, right? https://t.co/T566qJbayl

@RealAndyLeeShow - Andy Lee - Special Rebel Rapporteur

For everyone who is asking how I know this contract was for the ArriveCAN app - it was included as disclosure from CBSA as a part of the “pre-existing contracts used as the basis for agreements to design, develop, and deploy the ArriveCAN.” It was always in the works. https://t.co/5cUK8xnJhI

@RealAndyLeeShow - Andy Lee - Special Rebel Rapporteur

Apologies - a correction! That should read $16.7 million. I’m on double-duty cooking a turkey right now. Hopefully Santa will bring me Twitter Blue for Christmas so I can edit, but I already had to cancel my Disney Plus subscription, so it’s not looking very good at the moment.😂 https://t.co/U0THgy1eeE

@RealAndyLeeShow - Andy Lee - Special Rebel Rapporteur

In any event, Liberals used the pandemic as an excuse to force an application they planned to create all along - one with serious privacy concerns - on Canadians with minimal oversight, and insisted it was to “keep us safe.” Deplorable conduct. Merry Christmas, tweeplekinds.🎄

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Posted - December 8, 2023 at 4:04 PM
Saved - December 9, 2023 at 9:29 PM

@RealAndyLeeShow - Andy Lee - Special Rebel Rapporteur

Ben Chin was also the key PMO contact for lobbyists with Zijin Mining - the Chinese state company that was permitted to acquire Canadian mining assets without being subjected to national security reviews. Busy guy. https://t.co/EfAdvZHGBs

@scoopercooper - Sam Cooper

Missing in the picture is Ben Chin, then Christy Clark top aide at the table for this 2015ish PLA deal and junkets to deal with fraudulent Chinese real estate companies, now PMJT senior office aide.

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Posted - December 8, 2023 at 10:01 PM
Saved - December 9, 2023 at 12:20 AM

@RealAndyLeeShow - Andy Lee - Special Rebel Rapporteur

Not only that - Michael Chan agreed to collaborate on technology with the United Front’s “Thousand Talents Plan" (千人计划) to create the “Xuanwu Innovation Base for Chinese Professionals in Canada.” Xuanwu is the military district of Nanjing, home to the PLA’s navy division.

@VTmxk - VivienTmxk

@RealAndyLeeShow Reminder: Michael Chan (陈国治) was in collaboration with Teng Tao (滕涛), the Minister of the United Front Work Department in Xuanwu District, Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, back in 2012. https://cpac-canada.ca/%e4%b8%ad%e5%9b%bd%e5%8d%97%e4%ba%ac%e7%8e%84%e6%ad%a6-cpac%e6%8b%9b%e5%95%86%e5%bc%95%e6%89%8d%e6%88%98%e7%95%a5%e5%90%88%e4%bd%9c%e5%8d%8f%e8%ae%ae%e7%ad%be%e8%ae%a2%e4%bb%aa%e5%bc%8f%e5%9c%86/

中国南京玄武-CPAC招商引才战略合作协议签订仪式圆满成功！ - CPAC      日前，加拿大中国专业人士协会（CPAC）与中国南京玄武区政府携手，于本月20日在列治文山钓鱼台国宴举行 “中国南京玄武-加拿大中国专业人士协会招商引才战略合作协议签订仪式”。 本次双方的友好合作及结盟得到加拿大枫叶能源公司的大力支持并取得圆满成功！ 加拿大中国专业人士协会是以鼓励加拿大及中国各行业专业人士在不同领域中的交流与联系，促进合作机会，加强两地专业人士之间的相互了解为宗旨的海外社团，也是目前实施海外高层次人才引进计划（简称“千人计划”）的主要窗口单位。南京市玄武区是南京的中心城区，南京军区总部机关和南京市委、市政府所在地，科教发达、人文荟萃，经济社会发展处于全市全省前列。双方经协商达成共建“加拿大中国专业人士南京玄武创业创新基地”的意向，开展高层次人才引进与高科技项目落地工作。双方还将于2013年合作举办“加拿大中国专业人士协会负责人座谈会”等活动。 会议由CPAC总经理姚平主持，出任双方签约大使的分别为：CPAC前会长暨常务顾问沈浩先生、南京玄武区区委常委、统战部部长滕涛先生。出席签约仪式的重要嘉宾有：省议员（列治文山）莫伟力先生、安省旅游文化厅厅长陈国治特别代表、省议员（万锦市）Elaine Chan、中国驻多伦多总领事馆杨少军参赞、孙永俭领事、枫叶能源董事局主席Doug Lash、枫叶能源执行董事姜睿、枫叶能源汤友志博士、Miller Thomson LLP律师Andy Chan等。 图片说明： 后排 左起六：南京玄武区区委书记储永宏 左起五：万锦市省议员Elaine Chan 左起四：列治文山省议员莫伟力 前排 左：加拿大中国专业人士协会前会长暨常务顾问沈浩 右：南京玄武区区委常委、统战部部长滕涛   cpac-canada.ca
RealAndyLeeShow
Posted - December 6, 2023 at 10:03 PM
Saved - December 7, 2023 at 9:11 PM

@RealAndyLeeShow - Andy Lee - Special Rebel Rapporteur

Worth it.

@RebelNewsOnline - Rebel News

"Mr. Speaker, I will not apologize to that Prime Minister when he continues to lie!" Conservative MP Damien Kurek is removed from the House of Commons for refusing to apologize for calling Justin Trudeau a liar. http://TrudeauMustResign.com

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Speaker 0: Battle River Crowfoot, Tony Lauren. Speaker 1: Farmers want the carbon tax axed. The PM's promise of an independent senate is a farce. He bullied his senators to gut bill c234. The PM lied and his minions continue to act out of order. Speaker 0: Order! Retract and apologize for using that word. Speaker 1: I won't apologize to that broadcaster. Speaker 0: Apologize or leave. Speaker 1: It's the truth. Speaker 0: Leave now. Speaker 1: Fine, I'll leave.
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Speaker 0: The out of the river for Battle River Crowfoot. Hey, Tony Lauren. Getting very old. Speaker 1: Mister speaker, I know for a fact that farmers are asking that minister to axe the carbon tax. That PM promised that the senate would be independent, but the actions this past week proved that that is a complete farce. We know he bullied his ask senators. The PM himself was on the phone over the weekend telling them they had to gut bill c234. The prime minister lied and his minions continue act too act Order. Ask Speaker 0: Order. Order. Ask. The honorable member who got here the same time I did knows full well that you can't use that word. I would say the honorable member should retract that ask and apologize. The honorable member of Battle River Carl Swift. Speaker 1: Mister speaker, I will not apologize to that broadcaster when he invaded the line of our act Understand it. Speaker 0: I'm asking the honorable member to apologize ask for the 2nd time and retract that word. The honorable member knows full well, you cannot use that word in this chamber. So this is the last, this is the last opportunity. You all remember a Battle River Crowfoot? Will you be retracting that? It's the truth. Speaker 1: Hello? It's the truth. Miss He's gone. I will not apologize to the prime minister, mister speaker. Speaker 0: Mister Curek, Would you mind leaving us today? So let me fill let me fill this. I have to name you for the disregarding ask Authority of the chair. Pursuant to the authority granted by me, standing order 11, I order you to withdraw from the house from any participation by video conference for the remainder act of this sitting day that he did, he did leave.
Trudeau Must Resign! A Federal Court judge has ruled that Justin Trudeau's invocation of the Emergencies Act was unconstitutional and unreasonable – repudiating what was arguably the most important decision Trudeau has made during his entire administration! rebelnews.com
RealAndyLeeShow
Posted - January 11, 2023 at 1:26 AM
Saved - December 7, 2023 at 2:00 PM
reSee.it AI Summary
Taxpayers paid over $15 million to the Bank of China, Diplomatic Service Bureau, and Service of Foreign Establishments for temporary staffing solutions for Global Affairs Canada. This amount exceeds what other government departments spent on similar services. The involvement of a state-owned entity like the Bank of China raises questions. It's unclear why they are contracted for staffing government foreign affairs offices. This raises concerns about transparency and the need for a more conventional government approach.

@RealAndyLeeShow - Andy Lee - Special Rebel Rapporteur

Can someone explain to me why taxpayers collectively paid the Bank of China, the Diplomatic Service Bureau in Shanghai, and the Service of Foreign Establishments in Guangdong over $15 million last year for consulting for temporary staffing solutions for Global Affairs Canada?

@RealAndyLeeShow - Andy Lee - Special Rebel Rapporteur

That is more for temporary help services than all other government departments put together, excluding the Department of Defence. What is the Bank of China providing us taxpayers with exactly? And yes. I’m literally just reading public account statements. https://www.tpsgc-pwgsc.gc.ca/recgen/cpc-pac/2022/vol3/ds3/index-eng.html#wds3en_tbl_r193

Volume III, Section 3: Professional and special services—Public Accounts of Canada 2022—Receiver General for Canada—PSPC—Canada.ca the page presents supplementary details on Professional and special services tpsgc-pwgsc.gc.ca

@RealAndyLeeShow - Andy Lee - Special Rebel Rapporteur

I get that it’s Global Affairs Canada, but, I mean, there’s only two countries listed. What is going on? The Bank of China is a state-owned entity. Just for context - that’s more than the Department of Health spent on research services in the same year. https://t.co/eBuegvgPqN

@RealAndyLeeShow - Andy Lee - Special Rebel Rapporteur

This is what “Temporary Help Services” is defined as by the Government of Canada, by the way. I’m a little fuzzy on the part where Chinese state-owned enterprises enter the supply arrangement procurement plot here? https://t.co/5mlSS3L3bD

@RealAndyLeeShow - Andy Lee - Special Rebel Rapporteur

Who contracts out the Bank of China to staff their government foreign affairs offices? For real? Why can’t we just have a normal government that does normal things? “I pay Chinese state-owned banks to staff my foreign affairs department” said no normal government basically ever.

RealAndyLeeShow
Posted - November 11, 2023 at 3:57 PM
Saved - December 7, 2023 at 5:50 AM

@RealAndyLeeShow - Andy Lee - Special Rebel Rapporteur

Well, technically, they are all just different names for the same thing, according to thirteen pages of SEC filings (US Securities and Exchange Commission), and that is a massive temporary staffing agency based out of the States that offshores and has terrible reviews.

@Martyupnorth_2 - Martyupnorth®- Unacceptable Fact Checker 🍎

Andy Lee has uncovered 9 ghost contractor, who together have received nearly $100,000,000 in bogus federal Liberal government contracts. And no one else is investigating this.

RealAndyLeeShow
Posted - November 29, 2023 at 12:24 PM
Saved - November 29, 2023 at 3:54 PM

@RealAndyLeeShow - Andy Lee - Special Rebel Rapporteur

Why the hell are federal departments using and extracting Canadians’ data using Cellebrite spyware? It’s notorious for data harvesting used to facilitate human rights abuses and the political persecution of dissidents, journalists, and activists worldwide. @EthicsCanada @hrw

@cbcwatcher - cbcwatcher

"Spyware normally associated with the intelligence world is being used by 13 federal departments and agencies, according to contracts obtained under access to information legislation and shared with Radio-Canada." https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/spyware-being-used-by-13-federal-departments-documents-show-1.7041255

Spyware being used by 13 federal departments, documents show | CBC News Spyware normally associated with the intelligence world is being used by 13 federal departments and agencies, Radio-Canada has learned, but none of them are conducting privacy assessments despite a government directive.  cbc.ca
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Posted - November 25, 2023 at 2:55 PM
Saved - November 25, 2023 at 8:15 PM

@RealAndyLeeShow - Andy Lee - Special Rebel Rapporteur

A senior Canadian politician running to lead a provincial political party clandestinely met officials inside a Chinese Consulate in 2022, subsequently becoming China’s preferred candidate, and winning campaign support from Consulate proxies, CSIS alleges. https://www.thebureau.news/p/exclusive-csis-report-says-china

Exclusive: CSIS report says China infiltrated Provincial and Federal Party leadership races in 2022 Canadian Mayoral candidate got clandestine financial support from community leaders mobilized by Chinese Consulate in 2022 and 2018: "Intelligence Assessment" thebureau.news
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Posted - November 19, 2023 at 4:00 PM
Saved - November 19, 2023 at 5:41 PM

@RealAndyLeeShow - Andy Lee - Special Rebel Rapporteur

The chairman of Sinocan in Canada attends the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference meeting of overseas Chinese with wanted fugitive Lu Qiang (鹿强 )in 2021. Qiang ran an illegal bio lab. Canadian and Chinese flags are displayed in the background. https://www.sinocansupply.com/2021/02/11/%E6%88%91%E5%8F%B8%E8%91%A3%E4%BA%8B%E9%95%BF%E9%A9%AC%E5%90%9B%E5%BC%BA%E4%BD%9C%E4%B8%BA%E5%8D%8E%E4%BA%BA%E5%8D%8E%E4%BE%A8%E5%88%97%E5%B8%AD%E4%B8%8A%E6%B5%B7%E5%B8%82/?lang=zh-hans

我司董事长马君强作为华人华侨列席上海市政协会议 - Sinocan Supply Inc. 距离阻隔不了大家对上海发展的殷殷关切之意。1月29日北京时间20时，上海市政协十三届四次会议华侨华人代表视频会议准时开始。 sinocansupply.com

@TheChiefNerd - Chief Nerd

“A black market Chinese biolab in Reedley, California, located about 25 miles southeast of Fresno, received more than $1.3 million in unexplained payments from banks in China while in operation, according to U.S. lawmakers. The illegal biolab had thousands of vials and other containers, some labeled with potentially deadly infectious agents on site, including HIV and Ebola, according to officials.”

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