Richard Fadden
Ottawa’s spymaster, Richard Fadden, director of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, risked his career by declaring in an interview with state-run television that cabinet ministers in two provinces and municipal politicians in British Columbia are “under the control of foreign governments.” Fadden did not specify the two provincial governments. However, B.C. and Alberta, Canada’s two westernmost provinces, have aggressively pursued trade relations with the People’s Republic of China. In his comments to the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Fadden stated:
These politicians haven’t hidden their ties to foreign governments, and recently they’ve been shifting their policy decisions to reflect those relationships. I have discussed this with Canada’s Privy Council, how best to tell those provincial governments, that they may have been comprised. There is no evidence that any federal politicians have been infiltrated.
A number of countries take the view that if they can develop influence with people relatively early in their careers they’ll follow them through. Before you know it, a country’s providing them with money, some sort of covert guidance.
Fadden declined to name the elected officials or hostile countries involved, but when probed further whether the People’s Republic of China was complicit, the CSIS director acknowledged that recent media reports on the PRC’s economic espionage in Canada were not “entirely incorrect.” The CBC report added that “at least five countries, including China and Middle Eastern countries, are recruiting political prospects in universities.”
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Over the decades, the Canadian leftist/socialist/marxist National Democratic Coalition/Party has been in control or has heavily influenced the Canadian western provinces, esp. the port city of Vancouver. This port is where not only legitimate trade with Red China enters North America, but also illegal Chinese immigrants including Red Chinese agents.
Vancouver has also been the main port of entry for Red Chinese opium/heroin since at least the late 1950′s, as has been documented by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and the intelligence services in the Republic of China, Taiwan, esp. in the latter’s “small blue book” series on Red Chinese operations.
Just as the KGB infiltrated, influenced, often controlled, and funded “anti-Vietnam”, “anti-war”, the “anti-Pershing Missiles/Cruise missiles” and “Nuclear Freeze” movements in England and Europe (the leader of the Dutch anti-war movement was caught with Soviet money), so too will we one day find that that NDP in western Canada has been the target of both Soviet and Red Chinese penetration and “influence” operations.
FBI reports and testimonies before Congress have told how the Soviets ran “front” operations in the US that had the support from members of Congress. Why should Canadian leftist politicians be any different both as targets or as agents-of-influence?
We are surrounded. Ronald Reagan was right but he should have included Canada. We are the two countries that are the bastion of freedom and the jackals are circling. But what would you expect. Two major countries, not including England, have save the world from fascists and Nazis. Their only mistake was not allowing Patton to kick the bear in the ass.