this post was submitted on 10 Aug 2023
42 points (95.7% liked)

Canada

7185 readers
240 users here now

What's going on Canada?



Communities


🍁 Meta


πŸ—ΊοΈ Provinces / Territories


πŸ™οΈ Cities / Local Communities


πŸ’ SportsHockey

Football (NFL)

  • List of All Teams: unknown

Football (CFL)

  • List of All Teams: unknown

Baseball

Basketball

Soccer


πŸ’» Universities


πŸ’΅ Finance / Shopping


πŸ—£οΈ Politics


🍁 Social and Culture


Rules

Reminder that the rules for lemmy.ca also apply here. See the sidebar on the homepage:

https://lemmy.ca


founded 3 years ago
MODERATORS
 

A Canadian foreign interference monitoring system has detected an "information operation" targeting Conservative MP Michael Chong, Global Affairs Canada revealed Wednesday.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

So is it pro or anti conservative?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

It's anti democracy.

They'll do whatever they can to influence our democracy to the advantage of anybody that supports China.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

The CSIS documents reveal that the campaign’s primary goals were to ensure that a minority Liberal government was returned in 2021, and to defeat Conservative politicians considered to be unfriendly to Beijing.

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-chinese-election-interference-canada-timeline/?rel=premium

So I'd say decidedly "anti".

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I find it curious, sometimes (not a direct comment on anything here, just reminded my of an observation I often have, when foriegn interference is a topic) how amero-centric we tend to be. If a forign country is going to interfere, nine times out of ten it's going to be about ensuring their own wealth and power. Political party and ideology doesn't matter, it's about who they figure they can sweet talk into a better deal. Am I a little surprised Beijing figures that's the Liberals and not the Conservatives? Yes. But only a little. :P It tracks either way. :P

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm of two minds on this; the Cons would seem to support business at the detriment of the Canadian public, so offshoring would bolster profits of these businesses and therefore desirable to both sides. But Canadian conservatives seem to have a healthy distrust of the CCP, which doesn't seem to be so big of a hot button for the Liberals, especially give the high support they enjoy from immigrants, which are largely Chinese. So it could go both ways. Obviously the CCP have latched on to the Liberals, but I actually think they could make more inroads more easily by greasing the Conservatives financially and by making it easier for Canadian firms to do business in China.

Both parties are schizophrenic when it comes to the Chinese. I think when it comes to getting elected (the primary driver of the LPC), they'll publicly support China, but when they're in power they'll do what they can to keep them down in the interests of Canadians.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I heard something about Harper enabling Chinese businesses taking over Canadian businesses and getting preferred treatment over our natural resources.

I might misremember...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@cyborganism @ikidd

He did when he developed and signed the Canada-China FIPA in 2014, locking us into a one-sided investment agreement for 33 years.

Here's a link to the agreement ... https://www.international.gc.ca/trade-commerce/trade-agreements-accords-commerciaux/agr-acc/china-chine/fipa-apie/index.aspx?lang=eng

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thank you! I read another comment about this before but there weren't any sources.