This group has been running for about six months now and continues to be thought-provoking and very congenial, and no trouble at all to manage. It pretty well runs itself.
We have accumulated over $1000 now since we last donated funds. (I have not tallied lately. The numer on ther dashboard is not exactly what arrives in my account. there is overhead apparently) and it is time to distribute the contributions to a worthy recipient or recipients so I am open to suggestions. I have enabled live chat.
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....