The Chinese Infiltration: [Li Ka-Shing etc,] Still Worrisome/Not Forgotten

NATIONAL SECURITY

Operation Sidewinder: In Canada Spies Are Us

Posted on Wednesday, February 16 at 13:18 by Perturbed

Operation Sidewinder met with a fate that silenced ringing alarm bells. Officially entitled Chinese Intelligence Services and Triads Financial Links in Canada, it was buried. Following orders from persons unknown, CSIS watered down Sidewinder’s worrisome conclusions and replaced it with a revised document called, Echo. CSIS officials maintain that they buried Sidewinder because it relied on nothing more than conspiracy theories--even though www.asianpacificpost.com heralded the news in August 2003 that some 3,500 Chinese spy companies had been identified operating in Canada and the United States. While CSIS claimed that conspiracy caused them to go mum, other intelligence sources are saying that political pressure forced CSIS to abandon the Sidewinder report. Prominent among Sidewinder’s case studies was The Chinese, state-owned China International Trust Investment Company (CITIC), which already has a subsidiary up and running in Canada. CITIC has spent about $500 million to buy a Canadian pulp mill, a petrochemical company, vast real estate and hotels. At the time of the Sidewinder report. CITIC already had connections with one large Canadian corporation." "Chinese tycoons have gained solid influence in municipal politics and development through their ownership of large chunks of real estate and hotel chains in key urban centres like Toronto" "Sidewinder star Li Ka-Shing is also Asia’s most powerful man. He owns large tracts of prime real estate in Canada and octopus-like interests in the nation’s telecommunications, petroleum and banking sectors. Even as he was acquiring Vancouver’s Expo 86 lands, Hong Kong Police were asking CSIS to investigate Li Ka-Shing in Canada, back in 1988. Anne Marie Doyle, then Canadian High Commissioner officially denied that request to Hong Kong." ...... www.canadafreepress.com/2005/cover012605.htm Here is a related article: Welcome to the Peoples’ Republic of China on Canadian soil by Judi McLeod & Brian Thompson, Canadafreepress.com January 22, 2005 Is China’s ownership interest in Alberta oil sands being financed with Canadian tax dollars? Officials with Sinopec Corp.-- a company majority owned by the Chinese government has already been in Alberta for their own look-see--an actual tour of the oil sands. www.canadafreepress.com/2005/cover012205.htm