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The liberal progressive West has become something very much the opposite of what liberalism used to be known for. Liberalism used to stand for openness, acceptance, and fighting for the rights of minorities against tyranny and sadistic cultures. Today, instead of fighting against these sadistic cultures of oppression, the liberal progressive minds find themselves actually supporting these very terrorists.
As Melanie Phillips has so eloquently explained, everyone that openly supports terrorists such as Hamas should be confronted head-on with the fact that they are actually supporting kidnapping grandmothers, burning Jewish babies, and torturing of Jews due to their ethnicity. When confronting anti-Israel progressives with these facts, the conversation will usually end. But, it is an important jab that is well with taking.
There are many people who are waking up to the reality that their woke values are truly messed up and confused at best, and disgusting at worst. No young person with a heathy heart wants to support terrorists torturing Jews. But there is no way around it. That is what Hamas support means. Melanie’s clarity is a beacon of clarity in a world that is flailing in the midst of a barrage of confused values.
Melanie, I think, is approaching the conclusion that I arrived at quite recently, that most antisemites are godless people. Godless people include those who don't believe in God, those who believe in a false god, and those who contort the character of God into an image that fits their own morality.
They are not restricted to Hamas or Gaza supporters, they exist all over the world in so many organizations like the WEF, NATO, the UN, the War Industry, Big Pharma, the CIA, and other Deep State gangs.
‘Coordinated and Alarming’: Allegations of Chinese Voter Suppression in 2021 Race That Flipped Toronto Riding to Liberals and Paul Chiang
“There were Chinese officials following Bob Saroya around.” The Bureau investigates claims of voter intimidation in the Toronto-area riding now at the centre of Canada’s election.
Apr 02, 2025
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Paul Chiang campaigned against Erin O’Toole with Justin Trudeau in Markham-Unionville in September 2021.
TORONTO — As Canada’s snap election unfolds under the shadow of foreign interference—following the resignation of a Liberal MP accused of suggesting his Conservative rival could be handed to Chinese officials for a bounty—The Bureau has uncovered new allegations that Chinese agents attempted to intimidate voters and the Conservative incumbent in the same Markham–Unionville riding during the 2021 federal campaign. The revelations raise urgent concerns that similar tactics may be resurfacing in Toronto-area ridings with large communities of immigrants from China and Hong Kong.
Paul Chiang, a former police officer who unseated longtime Conservative representative Bob Saroya to win Markham–Unionville for Team Trudeau in 2021, stepped down as a candidate late Monday after the RCMP confirmed it was reviewing remarks he made to Chinese-language media in January. During that event, Chiang reportedly said Conservative candidate Joe Tay—a Canadian citizen wanted under Hong Kong’s National Security Law—could be taken to the Chinese Consulate in Toronto to claim a bounty.
Tay, a former Hong Kong broadcaster whose independent reporting from Canada has drawn retaliation from Beijing, rejected Chiang’s apology, calling his comments to Chinese-language journalists “the tradecraft of the Chinese Communist Party.” He added: “They are not just aimed at me; they are intended to send a chilling signal to the entire community to force compliance with Beijing’s political goals.” His concerns were echoed by dozens of NGOs and human rights organizations, which condemned Chiang’s remarks as an endorsement of transnational repression.
There is no indication Chiang was aware of the intimidation campaign alleged by senior Conservative sources during the 2021 vote. He has described his January remarks as an ill-considered joke, a serious lapse in judgment, and emphasized that he intended no harm or wrongdoing.
According to multiple senior figures from Erin O’Toole’s 2021 Conservative campaign—who spoke on condition of anonymity due to the sensitivity of intelligence disclosures—O’Toole’s team was briefed by Canadian intelligence that Chinese officials were actively surveilling Saroya during the election. One source recalled being told that “there were Chinese officials following Bob Saroya around,” and that “CSIS literally said repeatedly that this was ‘coordinated and alarming.’”
“Bob lost because the Chinese vote abandoned him,” the source added.
When asked to respond, O’Toole—who stepped down after the 2021 loss—acknowledged awareness of voter intimidation reports but did not say whether CSIS had informed his team about alleged Chinese surveillance targeting Saroya.
“Our candidate Bob Saroya was a hardworking MP who won against the Liberal wave in 2015,” O’Toole wrote. “He won in 2019 as well, but thousands of votes from the Chinese Canadian community stayed home in 2021. We heard reports of intimidation of voters. We also know the Consul General from China took particular interest in the riding and made strange comments to Mr. Saroya ahead of the election. It was always in the top three of the eight or nine ridings that I believe were flipped due to foreign interference. The conduct of Mr. Chiang suggests our serious concerns were warranted.”
A third senior Conservative campaign source confirmed Chinese interference was a concern in multiple ridings. “The concern was related to China… we had candidates that were being intimidated,” the source said.
Speaking specifically to Saroya’s campaign, the source said that in the early stages of the 2021 election, Saroya and a close family member believed they were performing well. “He said he had never had such a good reaction at the doors, and he assumed he was getting the Chinese traditional vote,” they recalled.
But the campaign later learned from CSIS that Saroya was allegedly being followed by suspected Chinese security personnel. Intelligence assessments reportedly indicated that these actors were shadowing Saroya’s canvassing team and visiting the same homes shortly after campaign stops. While The Bureau has not confirmed CSIS’s exact conclusions, the conduct appears consistent with voter suppression tactics—paralleling public warnings issued this week by Canada’s SITE Task Force.
The source added that CSIS interviewed Saroya. “He was convinced he was being tailed at times,” they said. The Bureau has independently confirmed with two sources that Saroya was interviewed by CSIS.
Carney lobbied mayor of Beijing ahead of Liberal leadership race
Mark Carney, accepting leadership of the Liberal Party of CanadaCPAC
Mark Carney, only weeks before seeking the Liberal leadership, lobbied Beijing’s mayor to “deepen cooperation,” according to official Chinese records.
Carney on October 20 lobbied the Beijing mayor as chair of Brookfield Asset Management, according to an official account by the People’s Government of Beijing, disclosed Wednesday by the Epoch Times.
Carney, the longtime economic advisor to former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, sought to explore “growth potential of investing in China” — yet, according to Blacklock's Reporter, cabinet at the time had censured the Chinese Communist Party for unfair trade practices that would “cripple our own industry.”
“Foreign guests expressed strong confidence in the development prospects and growth potential of investing in China,” said the official account from Beijing’s government, which was issued three days after the private talk.
“Carney highlighted Brookfield Asset Management’s keen interest in seizing development opportunities in China, further expanding its business in Beijing and deepening cooperation with relevant partners in areas such as green finance, fund management and infrastructure investment,” said the mayor’s office.
The meeting came only days after the Liberal cabinet on October 1 imposed 100% tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles in retaliation for predatory trade practices.
“The reality is China has an intentional, state-directed policy of over-capacity and over-supply designed to cripple our own industry,” then-Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland said at the time.
“We simply will not allow that to happen to our electric vehicle sector which is showing such promise and in which we have invested.”
Of course Canada needs to be ready for all manner of reactions and we are.”
Carney, selected by the Liberals on March 9 as party leader, and by default replacing Trudeau as prime minister, made no mention of lobbying the Mayor of Beijing.
“You’ve got to understand where China is, where China is going, whether there is any room for partnership in that,” Carney told reporters March 26.
“Look, I am beholden to absolutely no one except the Canadian people. I am here for the Canadian people.”
“Is it your belief we should be increasing our trade with China?” asked a reporter.
“Look, here’s my view on this broader set of issues,” replied Carney.
“We need to diversify our trade as a country. We are over-reliant on the United States. I think it’s a lesson we’ve all learned.”
The Liberal leader then said he considered China an unsuitable substitute for American buyers.
“We want to diversify with like-minded partners,” he said.
“There are partners that we can build deeper ties,” said Carney.
“But the partners in Asia that share our values don’t include China. There’s certain activities we could have with China – we obviously do have a large amount of trade with them – but we have to be very careful, very deliberate, and they need to meet Canadian standards.”
Canada-China investigative journalist for The Bureau Sam Cooper has uncovered evidence Liberal leadership candidate Mark Carney is influenced by an “elite network” of foreign entities.
Carney is the frontrunner of the leadership race, and is an apparent sweetheart of the Liberal party, including government-funded state media, the CBC. If he wins the March 9 vote, he will replace Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and waltz into the Prime Minister’s Office — despite never being elected as a politician in any capacity
Cooper, author of Wilful Blindness, says Carney is tangled up in “a constellation of global influencers deeply tied” to China’s trade and finance arms, particularly the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB),” and the World Economic Forum (WEF).
Beside Carney in that tangled web is Trudeau, which Cooper calls an “undebatable” fact."
The two are “so thoroughly woven together through global forums like the WEF that they are indistinguishable,” said Cooper in an expose published on Substack.
“And while Carney seeks to distance himself from Trudeau’s unpopular record, his closest allies remain the same WEF-linked figures who helped shape Trudeau’s policies.”
Among those named in Cooper’s expose are former Canadian ambassador to China Dominic Barton, Trudeau campaign backers Mark Wiseman and Gerald Butts, former CBC Power & Politics host Evan Solomon and Jin Liqun of AIIB, who is reportedly a senior Chinese Communist Party (CCP) operative and former Red Guard.
The common denominator among these figures is their stated goals: “consolidating financial power across borders to coordinate carbon-reduction policies and progressive social outcomes,” Cooper wrote.
Despite Canadians and people from other Western countries being concerned with issues like mass immigration, energy policy and housing affordability over climate change, Carney has been a global champion of the issue, and continues to push it in his campaign.
In 2020, Carney stepped down from the Bank of England to become the United Nations Special Envoy on Climate Action and Finance.
Now, as LIberal leadership candidate — and frontrunner — Carney champions climate change activism and has embedded it into his energy policies with an “urgency” that demands “high-level solutions.”
“Ones driven by big private capital and partnerships with Chinese institutions like the AIIB,” says Cooper, linking the WEF, of which Carney is a well-known affiliate, to the financial arms of the CCP.
While head of the Bank of England over the course of 10 years, Carney “integrated climate risk into financial stability assessments, positioned himself as a leader in climate-focused central banking and materially deepened the UK’s financial ties with China,” wrote Cooper.
In 2013, Carney signed an agreement between the Bank of England and the People’s Bank of China that would allow banks in England to clear the Chinese currency, Renminbi.
“Helping the internationalization of the Renminbi is a global good, consistent with London’s historic role,” said Carney in a speech at the time.
Jin came into the picture after Carney partnered with Michael Bloomberg and co-founded net-zero initiative GFANZ. The AIIB is an institution owned by the CCP whose “green” infrastructure projects in Asia “matched Carney’s vision for climate finance at scale.” says Cooper.
“The world cannot address climate change without finance,” said Carney in 2022 during a speech announcing the initiative.
“Similarly, the global financial system cannot do its fair share without the leadership of the Asia-Pacific financial institutions. Our new APAC Network … will bring Asian finance to the heart of GFANZ to help solve this global challenge.”
“At a time when our world is facing unprecedented challenges, it is increasingly important to strengthen our linkages across borders, deepen our resolve, and resist the urge to turn inward. I am delighted to join GFANZ and contribute multilateral perspectives to explore the huge potential in net-zero transitions,” added Jin.
Carney and Jin in 2024 also announced a climate financing initiative in Brazil.
However, Canadian and former AIIB employee Bob Pickard, who fled China in 2023 in fear of his safety, told the CBC at the time it was all about making China “look good,” and indicated AIIB is not really concerned about “sustainability,” but rather was looking to infiltrate global initiatives with CCP influence.
“All we’re doing, with our membership in this bank, is making China look good as a country able to do multilateralism. We are effectively supporting the Chinese image campaign to show that they are ready to assume world leadership,” said Pickard.
Pickard told The Bureau in 2023 it gets worse.
“The president of the bank [Jin Liqun] and the president’s office knew that I had concerns about the Communist Party and the invisible power the CCP wielded in the bank,” said Pickard.
“President Jin himself [is] a former Red Guard. [A] troika of people in the president’s office called all the everyday operating shots.”
In addition to Carney’s ties to Beijing and the WEF, Carney is being put through the ringer back in Canada for lying about his involvement in moving Brookfield Asset Management to the US in the face of President Donald Trump’s tariff threat.
Carney after Tuesday night’s leadership debate told reporters he had no involvement in moving Brookfield to New York City.
Carney said he resigned from his role as chair of the company when he announced his candidacy to replace Prime Minister Justin Trudeau as Liberal leader on January 16.
However, paperwork shows Carney orchestrated the move in late 2024 — days after Trump first threatened the tariffs.
“I'll just correct a few factual things,” said Carney on Tuesday.
“I was chair of Brookfield Asset Management. I ceased to be chair on [January] 15, when I announced for leadership.”
Carney added that’s when he “ceased to be chair” of Bloomberg, “ceased to be” United Nations Special Envoy on Climate Action Finance, and “ceased to be a number of other things.”
“So I resigned all my positions because I am all in for Canada, all in for this leadership,” he said.
“Second, the formal decision of the board happened after I ceased to be on the board.”
Yet, the decision took place last year while Carney was on the board, as documents uncovered by the Tories indicate.
“I do not have a connection with Brookfield Asset Management. No longer have a role, obviously, as I resigned in the middle of January,” said Carney.
As Conservative Shadow Minister for Ethics and Accountable Government Michael Barrett pointed out in a press conference Wednesday morning, Mark Carney has repeatedly maintained Brookfield’s decision to move to the US was made after his resignation.
Brookfield Asset ManagementSubmitted
Yet, documents reviewed by the Western Standard state otherwise — including letters to shareholders signed by Carney himself. A note dated December 1, 2024 outlines the details of the move to New York and calls a shareholders’ meeting for January 27. The note was written by Carney.
The letter indicates Carney personally voted for the relocation to the US and encouraged shareholders to do the same.
An article from Global Newswire on October 31, 2024 confirmed Brookfield “has now changed its head office to New York.”
