Canadian leftist Prime Minister Mark Carney reacted with indignation on Thursday when he faced why he had photos of tasks with the leaders of a Chinese influence operation in Toronto, claiming that he did not know what the group was.
The Jiangsu Commerce Council of Canada (JCCC), a great Chinese influence of the organization in the Canadian economy, boasted in early April of a “in depth” meeting with Carney and praised the roles or claim, claim, business “in green energy, electronic commerce and other sectors.
A reporter representation the Globe and mail The newspaper asked Carney about the meeting on Thursday, which led Carney to insist: “I have never heard of this group … full stop.” The JCCC published photos that show their leaders shaking hands with Carney as proof of their commitment to the prime minister.
Carney insisted in response to the photos that meet “hundreds and thousands” of people, arguing that it cannot be a hero’s response to know who he is.
The JCCC scandal is the last one in a burst of revelations that show that Carney, through his career before becoming prime minister, built extensive relations with several weapons of the Chinese Communist Party. Carney never had a public office of hero or nominated for any political position before being appointed prime minister in March, the result of his very unpopular predecessor Justin Trudeau renouncing. He served as president of the Bank of Canada and the Bank of England, advised Trudeau about his disastrous response from Coronavirus Wuhan, and more recently worked for Brookfield Asset Management, a finance firm.
As part of his work with Brookfield, Carney visited Beijing in October when Chinese state media said he gave him “further expand their business in Beijing.” Brookfield also recently obtained a Chinese bank loan for a value of $ 276 million.
The JCCC controversy is based on a publication that the defense group published on its website in early April that seems to have eliminated the leg after Globe and mail He missed him on Thursday. However, it is still visible in Internet files.
The Chinese text position, entitled “A financial giant is in charge of the Maple Leaf country,” said the president of JCCC, Xu Xiaoguang, and the honorary president Jiang Rui, held a “in depth meeting” with Carney in which the prime minister said that “it was necessary to actively expand commercial relations with countries such as countries of South America, the United Kingdom and the United Kingdom from the region “to the United States”.
Supposedly, Carney “praised the pioneering role of the Chinese business community in emerging fields such as clean technology, digital trade and financial technology.”
The report also repeatedly praised Carney, stating that Heyed “both international prestige and local affection” and expressing the hope of being able to advance in Canada for “response to climate change, development of the Arctic and free trade channel.”
“I have never heard of this group, okay?” Carney snapped at journalists on Thursday. “I have never heard of this group. I certainly did not have a configuration meeting with this group.
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Carnya despised the Globe and mailA newspaper with a left tendency, and urged journalists to “verify their sources before writing”, ignoring the fact that the source was an article published by the group with photos of Carney in the event that said it never happened. He then turned to argue that, even if he met with the people in question, it was unfair to wait for he knew who he is.
“I go to events where there are hundreds and thousands – You know, thousands – On the course of a day, or different people there, “Carney explained.” That is not a meeting. If someone is in the room, take a photo with me, that is not a meeting, okay? “
The Liberal Party revealed that they had pressed to the JCCC to eliminate their Internet article, which they seem to have done at the end of Friday.
He Globe and mail He informed that the JCCC has direct ties with the Department of Labor of the United Front of China, an agency responsible for disseminating communist propaganda worldwide, increasing China’s influence on foreign governments, changing foreign attitudes.
The Select Committee of the Chamber of Representatives of the United States Chamber on Strategic Competition between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party described United Front Work Group as “a unique combination of influence and interference activities, as well as intelligence operations that the CP [Chinese Communist Party] Uses to shape its political environment, even to influence the policy of other countries towards RPC [People’s Republic of China] and to obtain access to advanced foreign technology. “
Jiang, the JCCC “Honorary President”, according to reports, spoke at a United Front event in 2019, the Globe and mail Presented, the initiative of the road and the road of the Belt and Road road of the promotion of China in which China offers predators to poor countries.
The presence of Carney in surrounding JCCC follows the revelation this week due to Canada’s security and intelligence threats to the elections (site) of the task force that the Chinese government was behind a series of Chinese networks and networks of Networks of Descaty Star Networks and “Durs Minillo” networks capable of facing the US president Donald Trump. The site, a government agency, refused strangely to describe the positions as favorable for Carney and insisted that they did not seem to have had an impact on him on the on the on the on the on the on the on the on the on the on the on the on the on the on the on the on the on the on the on the on the on the or on the intent attem In Chand Inn.
Carney is a current leading survey to maintain the prime minister in the April 28 elections. The average of CBCS surveys, until Friday, shows Carney with 43.9 percent of the votes compared to 37.5 percent for its main rival, the leader of the Pierre Poilievre Conservative Party. Poilievre was as high as 20 points on the liberals in January before Carney was crowned Prime Minister.
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