Nov 24 2020 — Robert Fife and Steven Chase — Globe and Mail — ohn McCallum, the former Liberal cabinet minister and ambassador to China, says he doesn’t believe it would be useful for Ottawa to set up a registry that tracks the work Canadians do for foreign states. The United States and Australia have passed laws that are designed to monitor foreign influence in domestic affairs, arising out […]
Nov 23 2020 — Robert Fife and Steven Chase — Globe and Mail — The Canadian government has no plans to lead the way amid growing calls for an international boycott of the 2022 Olympics in China. Foreign Affairs Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne told the House of Commons special committee on Canada-China relations Monday that a decision on a boycott should be left to private sports bodies participating in the […]
Nov 23 2020 — Robert Fife and Steven Chase — Globe and Mail — Telus Corp. plans to move entirely away from Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. as a supplier of gear for superfast 5G mobile networks. It says instead that it will rely solely on telecom manufacturers from Western countries, as well as South Korea, because it expects Ottawa will eventually restrict the use of the Chinese company’s equipment […]
Nov 20 2020 — Robert Fife and Steven Chase — Globe and Mail — A former RCMP officer, who has refused to testify at the Vancouver extradition hearing of the chief financial officer of Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd., is now working as a senior security executive at a casino in the Chinese-ruled gambling mecca of Macau. Retired staff sergeant Ben Chang played an essential role in the detention of […]
Nov 13 2020 — Robert Fife and Steven Chase — Globe and Mail — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has condemned China for using covert agents to threaten and intimidate members of Canada’s Chinese community in an effort to silence dissent and criticism of President Xi Jinping. Mr. Trudeau said on Friday that China has stepped up this activity in recent years, and it is unacceptable in a democratic society. […]
Nov 10 2020 — Robert Fife and Steven Chase — Globe and Mail — The Canadian Security Intelligence Service says Beijing routinely uses undercover state security officials and “trusted agents,” or proxies, to target members of Canada’s Chinese community in an effort to silence critics of President Xi Jinping, including threats of retribution against their families back in China. The federal spy agency says these illegal activities in Canada […]
Oct 28 2020 — Robert Fife and Steven Chase — Globe and Mail — A group of Chinese-Canadian associations are marking the 70th anniversary of the Korean War by publicly condemning the United States and its allies, including Canada, as aggressors and imperialists while lauding China for fighting alongside North Korea. More than 26,000 Canadians in the army, navy and air force served in the United Nation-authorized military campaign […]
Oct 26 2020 — Robert Fife and Steven Chase — Globe and Mail — Conservative Party Leader Erin O’Toole is calling on the Canadian government to urgently adopt special measures that provide a safe haven for Hong Kong residents facing persecution under a harsh national security law imposed by China on the former British colony. Mr. O’Toole said Canada must also be prepared to support the 300,000 Canadians living […]
Oct 19 2020 — Robert Fife and Steven Chase — Globe and Mail — Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland is denouncing China’s ambassador to Canada for threatening Canadians living in Hong Kong as Beijing staunchly defends its outspoken diplomat and accuses Ottawa of promoting “anti-China voices.” Ms. Freeland told the House of Commons on Monday she was “well aware of the character of Communist authoritarian regimes” as she chided […]
Oct 16 2020 — Robert Fife and Steven Chase — Globe and Mail — A federal scientist has accused the Department of Fisheries and Oceans of underplaying the threat of open-net fish farms to Pacific salmon and too often acting in the interests of British Columbia’s profitable fish farming industry. Fish farming in ocean waters off Canada’s West Coast remains controversial as fishermen grapple with the drop in wild […]
Oct 13 2020 — Robert Fife and Steven Chase — Globe and Mail — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says Canada intends to work with allies to challenge China’s “coercive diplomacy” and warned that its use of arbitrary arrests, repression in Hong Kong and detention camps for Muslim minorities is “not a particularly productive path.” In marking the 50th anniversary of relations between Canada and the People’s Republic of China, […]
Oct 9 2020 — Robert Fife and Steven Chase — Globe and Mail — British MPs said on Thursday they found “clear evidence of collusion” between Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. and Beijing, and suggested the U.K. government may need to remove all Huawei equipment from mobile networks earlier than planned. “It is clear that Huawei is strongly linked to the Chinese state and the Chinese Communist Party, despite its […]
Oct 6 2020 — Robert Fife and Steven Chase — Globe and Mail — Canada has begun accepting Hong Kong pro-democracy activists as refugees, a sign that this country is opening its doors to those fleeing Beijing’s crackdown on civil rights in the former British colony. In a Sept. 1 letter, the Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada notified a married couple from Hong Kong, both in their early […]
Oct 5 2020 — Robert Fife and Steven Chase — Globe and Mail — Canada’s cybersecurity watchdog is refusing to say whether it found the same security and software defects in telecommunications equipment from China’s Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. that Britain’s cyberspy agency identified last week. The British government’s National Cyber Security Centre, which oversees the vetting of Huawei gear and includes officials from Britain’s GCHQ signals intelligence agency, […]
Sep 18 2020 — Robert Fife and Steven Chase — Globe and Mail — More than 100 former diplomats have asked Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to intervene in the extradition case of high-profile Chinese tech executive Meng Wanzhou and allow her to return home. In a Sept. 15 letter, the ex-foreign service officers call on the Prime Minister to negotiate a swap of Ms. Meng, the chief financial officer […]