Trudeau is the real threat of foreign intervention

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Justin Trudeau and his desperate group of liberals want to distract you.

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They would have you believe that the biggest threat to Canada when it comes to foreign interference is Pierre Poilievre not getting a security clearance to read a classified report on the subject.

This does not mean that China and other countries have been interfering in Canadian democracy for years without the Trudeau government taking any steps to address the issue.

“Why doesn’t the Conservative leader get his security clearance?” Trudeau asked in response to a question from Poilievre on Wednesday.

Poilievre did not ask Trudeau about foreign interference, but rather about the green slush fund and the $400 million in contracts “directed by Liberal appointees to their own companies.” It's a serious case, as one person was found to have witnessed 186 conflicts of interest in a program that was shut down by the Liberals after a scathing audit.

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However, Trudeau did not want to talk about the issue, so he mentioned Poilievre and his security clearance. In fact, the Liberals raised the issue 16 times on Wednesday, while Trudeau himself raised it eight times.

Since then, liberals have been playing to conspiracy theorists in their ranks and online, claiming in statements and videos on social media that Poilievre will not get his security clearance because he cannot pass. It's an unfounded claim (Poilievre has received top-secret clearance in the past) but it's popular among TruAnon's base, which liberals are courting online.

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Poilievre has been clear: He believes receiving the full briefing on the foreign interference report from parliamentarians' Intelligence and National Security Committee would silence him. This is not an unreasonable opinion and is supported by Tom Mulcair, former Opposition Leader and former leader of the federal NDP.

But let's realistically address the issue of foreign interference. If there is a leader who raises an issue, it is Justin Trudeau, not Pierre Poilievre.

Trudeau, as Prime Minister, had access to all the information about foreign interference for years and took no action on it. In September 2019, he learned of concerns raised by the Canadian Security Intelligence Service about one of its candidates receiving help from China to secure his nomination.

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Trudeau did not act on this information. This did not stop Han Dong, who denied knowing anything about China's aid, from presenting himself as a liberal. Trudeau never followed up on the allegations and Dong ran again as a Liberal in 2021.

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We know that no one in the Liberal government thought to tell Conservative MP Michael Chong that he was vulnerable to Chinese interference. Zhong only learned from media reports that Chinese officials in Canada were collecting information about his extended family in Hong Kong and sending it to security officials in Beijing.

In all this time, the Trudeau government has never expelled a Chinese diplomat for foreign interference. The liberals simply received help from Beijing and looked the other way.

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When CSIS asked for a court order to tap the phones and vehicles used by Liberal fundraiser and former Ontario Liberal minister Michael Chan, the Trudeau government did not accept it. It took 54 days for then-Public Safety Secretary Bill Blair to approve the arrest request, although most arrest warrants were signed within 4 to 8 days.

Liberals claim there were no partisan considerations in the delay, but that is simply not credible. This delay seriously hampered the CSIS investigation and may have helped protect key liberals.

While Trudeau and his team claim that Poilievre is the problem and that he cannot pass the background check, the clear difference between the two men is how they react to the problem.

Trudeau is doing everything he can to prevent the public from knowing the whole truth. Poilievre demands that the names of all representatives involved in the foreign intervention be published.

What else do you need to know?

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