Michel Juneau-Katsuya – Contributing Author of Operation Sidewinder Report
This man had tried to alert Canadian political leaders that China is in fact Canada’s biggest security threat the country faces back in the late 1980s. The report’s findings were disregarded by the then Prime Minister Jean Chretien and subsequent dialogue on such fact based research has been squashed by politicians and business leaders ever since.
It is unfortunate that CSIS’s ability to sound warning bells in a country that has the highest amount of foreign ownership in the western world and the highest immigration per capita since 1990 in the western world has been muted to enable short-term profiteers, special interest groups, and ethnic focused identity groups to strategically chew up Canadian sovereignty for their own benefit while leaving the rest in vulnerable peril.
Below is an excerpt from Mr. Juneau-Katsuya’s synopsis back in 2005 on Chinese objectives in Canada:
“Well, what we were looking at specifically, we were looking at the relationship of the Chinese intelligence service with the organized crime, the Chinese organized crime, the Triads, and also the participation and the help of some tycoon and to try to see how China was trying to gain influence. One other thing we’ve noticed as well, which was quite important, is the process of acquiring Canadian companies – and this exercise took place also in England, Canada and Australia – where Chinese companies state-controlled Chinese companies are acquiring national companies, Canadian companies or Australian companies, and the danger in this exercise is that they gain quite a tremendous amount of influence. It’s not necessarily control of the country, but, you though, when you start having billions of dollars you definitely go through the secretary and are not put on hold when you try to reach the premier or some state officials and that was one of our concerns, that the control – the economy control that they were starting to gain under total legitimate acquisition process was starting to be quite important. Why is it is of so much concern for us, is that contrary to other foreign companies that would come and acquire another Canadian company, these companies were state controlled. So basically it’s a foreign government acquiring influence and will eventually influence sort of national policies or regional economic policies that would definitely benefit them eventually.”
With Canada posed to finalize the free trade agreement with China, the ongoing purchases of our natural resources by Chinese state owned companies or private companies that serve Beijing’s strategic geopolitical interests, and a seemingly unlimited supply of wealthy Chinese buying real estate and residency in Canada when will our political leadership start taking these warnings seriously?
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