If you are wondering why I have not been active lately I am currently sailing around Vancouver Island. Today I'm at a marina in Tofino with reliable Internet after days out of contact. I expect to be more active here next week.
Meantime the site is running itself very well. I notice that membership has stabilized and that income has dried to a trickle but may increase again with renewals unless people decide to become unpaid. We'll see. Making money was never the intent and paying the small monthly fee seems to keep the comments useful and supportive. As always, if you need to, you can contact me in the sidebar but sometimes it takes a while for me to notice.
I have not yet disbursed the funds to CG, but will do so shortly.
“Biggest Transnational Crime Group on Earth”: Why Canada Must Break Free From China
A group of top national security experts is sounding the alarm: Canada’s relationship with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has crossed from economic engagement into a full-blown democratic threat.
At a Dec. 6 forum in Toronto, former RCMP proceeds-of-crime director Garry Clement called the CCP “the biggest transnational organized crime group ever seen,” warning that Beijing is actively infiltrating Canada’s political, business, and cultural institutions. Through the United Front Work Department, the CCP co-opts elites, business leaders, community organizations, and media outlets—while intimidating and surveilling dissidents “on a daily basis.”
Clement also linked Beijing to the fentanyl crisis, saying the CCP could shut down precursor shipments to Canada “if they really wanted to,” but instead allows the flow as a form of “disruptive warfare,” echoing the tactics of the Opium Wars....
