Minister, Peter Mackay: On Chinese Spies in Canada

China  Mr. Speaker, Hao Fengjun, a former police officer and Chinese defector, says that China has more than 1,000 spies operating in Canada. Last December, CSIS said that foreign governments were resorting to economic espionage against Canada, and China has been one of the most

June 17th, 2005
House debate

Peter MacKay
Conservative

National Security  Mr. Speaker, documents provided by Hao Fengjun, the former Chinesepoliceman and defector, show Chinese spies in Canada were targeting Jillian Ye, a Falun Gong practitioner and database consultant from Scarborough. There is growing and concrete evidence of a massive Chinese

June 17th, 2005
House debate

Peter MacKay
Conservative

National Security  Mr. Speaker, again, no action, no answers. A thousand Chinese spieshave infiltrated Canada and are targeting sensitive industries. Industrial espionage costs our economy $1 billion per month. The Minister of Foreign Affairs says he takes these allegations very seriously. Can

June 17th, 2005
House debate

Peter MacKay
Conservative

National Security  Mr. Speaker, the foreign affairs minister said that Chinese visitors are meant to respect Canadian laws and that when he learns otherwise he refers them to the appropriate authorities of our country and yet nothing is done. Reports show that the Chinese spies were

June 20th, 2005
House debate

Peter MacKay
Conservative

National Security   can only use theft over $5,000 charges and have done nothing to modernize our laws to protect Canadian corporate interests. With an estimated 1,000Chinese spies operating in Canada, our companies are being targeted and our economies are being hurt. What has the Prime Minister

April 19th, 2007
House debate

Peter MacKay
Conservative

Foreign Affairs   and commitment on this case. Chinese authorities have persistently refused to respond to our concerns with respect to this Canadian citizen. In addition, there are concerns for Mr. Celil's health and his well-being. I immediately called in the Chinesechargé d'affaires this morning to speak

October 18th, 2006
House debate

Peter MacKay
Conservative

Foreign Affairs   the incident, we will follow up further with the Chinese government and we intend to reiterate Canada's strong condemnation of this gross human rights violation. We have called upon the Chinese to conduct a full, independent investigation and punish those responsible, as well as release

June 15th, 2005
House debate

Peter MacKay
Conservative

China   and Vancouver. This action is consistent with a CSIS report that foreign intelligence services manipulate, threaten and exploit expatriates living in Canada. Mr. Hao claims that he has given a Chinese intelligence report about a Falun Gong practitioner in Canada to the Australian authorities

December 14th, 1999
House debate

Peter MacKay
Progressive Conservative

Minimum Sentences   with these kinds of contraband material. Romanticism is certainly lost in this debate, particularly when we hear stories of human smuggling and the slavery of Chinese migrants trying to gain access to Canada. Thousands are brought in, as people are being constantly reminded through the daily

June 22nd, 2007
Bill

Peter MacKay
Conservative

Bill C-61 An Act to amend the Geneva Conventions Act, An Act to incorporate the Canadian Red Cross Society and the Trade-marks Act

, accessions and denunciations received by it with respect to this Protocol. Article 17 — Authentic texts The original of this Protocol, of which the Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish texts are equally authentic, shall be deposited with the depositary, which shall

April 19th, 2007
House debate

Peter MacKay
Conservative

Foreign Affairs   him through consular officials. We have had members of the consul in Urumqi following this case. We continue to represent his interests there to the best of our ability, to make representations through the Chinese government, to have access to Mr. Celil, to provide support

October 3rd, 2006
House debate

Peter MacKay
Conservative

Situation in Sudan  Mr. Chair, I appreciate the Bloc Québécois member's question. She makes a good point. I spoke with the Chinese and Russian ministers of foreign affairs, and I encouraged them to participate in efforts to increase support in the region and to provide monetary and political

September 27th, 2006
Committee meeting

Peter MacKay
Conservative

Foreign Affairs committee   priorities in China that Canada can make a contribution to. I met with the Chinese foreign minister in New York last week, and we raised a number of issues, including our concern for a Canadian citizen, Mr. Celil, who is in jail in China. We have concerns about their justice system. We

September 18th, 2000
House debate

Peter MacKay
Progressive Conservative

Organized Crime   in the public forum. Criminal gangs are present in virtually every province. Organized crime has infiltrated almost every element of society. Most recently, smuggling rings have been appearing with alarming frequency on the west coast. The Chinese snake head gangs or triads are becoming

December 7th, 2004
House debate

Peter MacKay
Conservative

Ukrainian Canadian Restitution Act   of the best countries in the world in which to live. Yet it is something we should never take for granted. As we have seen throughout our history, there have been dark days in this country. There has been reference made to the internment of Japanese and Canadian persons of Chinese descent

Supply  , that protection, or Chinese wall if you will, has been permeated repeatedly by the Prime Minister. I know that time is short and other members want to participate in the debate. The motion is very much intended to simply point out the obvious, that “new” is the last word we would use

June 11th, 2001
House debate

Peter MacKay
Progressive Conservative

Criminal Code   and spreading within Canada, it is certainly recognized that it is a world problem. We have seen references to Russian mafia. Certainly Chinese triads have now set up in Canada. We have references to all sorts of organizations from the Middle East that have been active within our borders

May 29th, 2001
House debate

Peter MacKay
Progressive Conservative

Youth Criminal Justice Act   sentence. That is the type of complexity we are talking about. It reads like Chinese arithmetic. It is something that will be extremely difficult for those working in the justice system to try to administer. This leads me to another major flaw or chasm for the provinces. Due to the new

April 23rd, 2001
House debate

Peter MacKay
Progressive Conservative

Criminal Code   gangs have emerged, such as the traditional Mafiosa-Italian connections, and there are the snakehead organizations, Chinese triads, Oriental groups that are forming gangs and the traditional so-called motorcycle gangs, which are, as I have said, becoming more prevalent. The Minister

February 14th, 2001
House debate

Peter MacKay
Progressive Conservative

Youth Criminal Justice Act   by it. That again is a major failing of the legislation. Its complexity has been compared to the revenue act. One person said it was tougher than Chinese arithmetic. The bill has many cross-references and new sections. There are all sorts of ways to manoeuvre through the bill which will create

February 8th, 2000
House debate

Peter MacKay
Progressive Conservative

Supply   that there was a crisis brewing. A lot of Chinese walls and walls of silence seem to surround the government when it comes to sharing bad news. It certainly does not want to share bad news with the opposition or the Canadian public. This is something that goes to the very root of democracy. This goes

November 30th, 1999
House debate

Peter MacKay
Progressive Conservative

Supply   to the Chinese military. I was about to say Canadian military, and there is some suggestion of that too. We know of the sidewinder investigation that took place and exposed a far-reaching, insidious plot to set up more organized crime in the country. Yet, because of a lack of resources among