July 2 2025

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?

• I Am Wasp says:

  October 26, 2014 

  Open Letter To Thomas Mulcair, Leader Of The NDP Canada

  To thomas.mulcair

  I and many others, I’m sure, are receiving emails from your party urging us to become involved in accepting and promoting the NDP programs, policies, and ideals. While I have been a loyal NDP voter for many years now, I must confess I’m losing faith in the NDP too. The reason for this change of heart can be directly attributed to the fact that your, among other Canadian political parties are too cowardly to acknowledge the biggest political elephant in the room that this country has ever encountered.

  That elephant to which I refer, is immigration.

  It is my opinion that if the NDP are serious about forming the government of Canada, then they would rise to their feet and take a stand against the insane immigration policies of this country as they are practiced today. If you really wanted to win this next election that is.

  I cannot believe that you could possibly be that out of touch with reality so as not to realize that the majority of Canadians are fed up to the teeth with the destruction of Canada brought about by the massive injection of third world and Asian immigrants into our country. Canadians have already become akin to second class citizens in their own homeland.

  Do you not ever monitor social media, blogs, and other such forums in regards to public opinion on issues such as immigration?

  If you were to do so, I imagine the hair on the back of your neck would stand up with the realization of just how angry…no… more than angry…. furious, Canadians are with you, (the politicians of Canada). You, who are supposed to represent us, and yet so blatantly disregard and refuse to acknowledge the absolute right of Canadians to determine and preserve the culture, flavour and ethnicity of our own country! No government has the right to change the ethnic face of Canada, without the express consent of Canadians, and yet you do!

  Do you realize that excessive immigration drives wages down to the poverty level and even lower?
  Of course you do.

  Do you realize that excessive immigration is completely and utterly destroying the social fabric of our country?
  Of course you do.

  Do you realize that Canadian students are finding it more and more difficult to get a seat in a suitable university due to the massive numbers of foreign students now usurping the space in our educational institutions?
  Of course you do.

  Do you realize that it is becoming more and more commonplace for companies in Canada to require that potential employees speak not one of the official languages such as English or French, but any one of a number of foreign languages including Mandarin, Tagalog, Punjabi, and Farsi in order to be eligible for employment?
  Of course you do.

  Do you realize that as opposed to 3 or 4 ethnic ghettos, (now referred to as enclaves) of twenty years ago, Canada now has upwards of 265 ethnic ghettos where immigrants have become totally independent of Canadian culture, language and values by purposely isolating themselves from Canada, the country they “chose” to migrate to?
  Of course you do.

  Do you realize that many of these ethnic enclaves now produce their own news media, including radio, television and newspaper each in their own particular language, thus totally removing themselves from any “outside” Canadian influence?
  Of course you do.

  Do you realize that many hundreds of thousands of “immigrants” maintain their old country citizenship in addition to their Canadian citizenship, so they may park their families in Canada to take advantage of Canadian social services and other benefits such as medical, while the breadwinner returns to work in his/her home country and thus escape Canadian taxation?
  Of course you do.

  Do you realize that students, single mothers, and impoverished seniors are unable to obtain employment at even the basic and most menial levels, because these positions also have been absorbed by the excessive numbers of immigrants who will and do work for even less remuneration than the minimum wage requirements of the above mentioned group ?
  Of course you do.

  Do you realize that, overall, immigration costs Canadians approximately 23.5 billion dollars a year over and above that which it contributes to the Canadian economy?
  Of course you do.

  Do you realize that immigrants who are employed in Canada, take out some 22 billion dollars each and every year to send back to their home countries on top of the 23.5 billion dollars a year they already cost the Canadian economy?
  Of course you do.

  Do you realize that the the politician who has the foresight and wisdom to present as a main plank in his/her platform, a moratorium on all immigration until the results of a Canadian referendum on the matter can be held, and the results incorporated into law, will be recognized by hundreds of thousands, no, millions of citizens as a true Canadian hero, and a man deserving and worthy of the title Prime Minister of Canada?

  Perhaps you didn’t.
  
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  Brian McAdam, a former foreign service bureaucrat who ran Canada's immigration office in Hong Kong from 1968 to 1971, and again from 1989 to 1993, was one of the key figures whose suspicions about the PRC's infiltration of Canada led to the Sidewinder investigations. He says that in the eighties, as the Chinese takeover of Hong Kong in 1997 began to draw near, the Communists in Beijing struck a deal with the powerful Hong Kong triads--criminal organizations specializing in the international smuggling of drugs, weapons and humans. The government and the gangs would work together to exploit the West for mutual advantage. One of the primary strategies was to curry favour and influence with political leaders through large campaign donations. "They are very good at talent spotting," McAdam says, noting that Chinese agents were donating to Bill Clinton's campaigns while he was still governor of Arkansas.

  

  
  In fact, the same sort of so-called conspiracy theories that characterized Sidewinder were unearthed in an American investigation into Chinese influence peddling and intelligence gathering in that country. In 1999, the Chinagate scandal rocked the Clinton presidency, when it emerged that the president had accepted large campaign contributions throughout the nineties directly or indirectly from Chinese intelligence agents. What followed, under Clinton, was a U.S. foreign policy adjusted in a way that made it easier for the Communists to get their hands on leading military technology. Defence contractors were permitted to work closely with the PLA to help advance its missile capabilities. What the Chinese couldn't get legally, they stole through a series of front companies based in the U.S. and Canada.

  Detailed in an investigation headed by U.S. Representative Christopher Cox, the 1999 scandal was partly overshadowed by the disclosure of then president Bill Clinton's affair with White House intern Monica Lewinsky, and few took notice, especially here in Canada. But many of the same figures that were identified in the Cox report were the same ones fingered by Sidewinder. Both look into the connections of Li Ka-shing, who, in addition to his Husky holdings, has invested millions in Canadian properties, banks and telecom firms. Also making appearances in both the U.S. and Canadian reports are Macau gambling magnate Stanley Ho, COSCO and CITIC, which was caught making illegal contributions to Clinton's campaign.

  

  
  Al Santoli, director of the Asia America Initiative and a former national security advisor in the U.S. Congress, says the Sidewinder report made a big impact in the States. "It got people to look at what was developing here in the U.S.," he says. "It was something that was systematic. It had a pattern to it. And because of the deft knowledge of the authors--and a few other reports that were coming out at that time--it drew an expanded light on what was going on," Santoli says, adding that the Canadian intelligence underlined the extent to which political systems and electoral processes were being subverted. "Sidewinder put it in a contextual pattern and that was very important."

  
  

  

  
  

  
  

  Had CSIS had its way, those details might never have come to light.  The agency's unorthodox attempts to suppress the report eventually resulted in an investigation in 2003 by Canada's Security Intelligence Review Committee, the public body that oversees CSIS. Shortly afterward, the investigation was quietly abandoned.

  Coincidentally, there were several members of the SIRC board who themselves were linked to some of the names that popped up in the Sidewinder report. Former Ontario premier Bob Rae also sat on the SIRC board. Rae's brother, John, is an executive and director at Power Corp. (with its stake in CITIC). The SIRC board was headed by Paule Gauthier, who up until her first appointment to SIRC, in 1995, had spent 25 years as the corporate secretary of Power Communications, a Power subsidiary. Power Corp's links to CITIC are mentioned in the Sidewinder report, under "Case Studies."

  The influence the Chinese nationals named in Sidewinder managed to procure in Canada remains huge; the probe was originally intended to be a starting point to stimulate further investigation. What is known is that Li Ka-shing has been a supporter of Martin's, with Husky donating $10,000 to the prime minister's leadership campaign in 2003 and another $10,000 from Li-controlled firm Concord Pacific Group Inc. (Li, who is one of the most powerful men in Asia, has said the accusations that he is working for the Communists are nonsense.) According to documents obtained through the Access to Information Act, Martin had several meetings with Li Ka-shing during a 1995 trip to Hong Kong when he was still finance minister. The substance of those meetings however, remains a mystery, as nearly every detail in the minutes of the meeting relating to Li has been blacked out by the government, with notes indicating that the information was highly sensitive and pertained to national security. In other words, Li, a foreign national, was privy to a meeting where things were discussed that are now considered too sensitive for Canadian citizens to hear. Meanwhile Li, whose companies make up an estimated 15 per cent of the capitalization of the Hong Kong stock exchange, is known, in intelligence documents, to work closely with the Chinese government. According to the Sidewinder report: "On 23 May, 1982, Li Ka-shing and [Triad boss] Henry Fok met with [PRC leaders] Deng Xiaoping and Zhao Ziyang in Beijing to discuss the future of the peninsula. Their task would be to advise and educate the Chinese authorities on the basic rules of capitalism. In return, Beijing would give them privileged access to the Chinese economic basin."

  Martin's predecessor, Jean Chr?tien, who was prime minister at the time Sidewinder was ordered suppressed, has links to Li as well. While on one of his few hiatuses from politics, between 1986 and 1990, Chr?tien sat on the board of Gordon Capital--a company run by Li Ka-shing's son, Richard Li--and personally brokered deals between Gordon Capital and Power Corp. The investment bank became the focus of mini-scandal in 1995, when Gordon won the federal contract to take Petro-Canada public, shocking the Bay Street business community, which expected the multimillion-dollar deal would go to a larger, more experienced Canadian firm.

  At the time Martin was with Power Corp., he got his start working for Maurice Strong. Strong, the former head of PetroCanada, who remains a senior adviser to Martin today and is a member of the Privy Council, never lost his enthusiasm for the Chinese commercial market. A multimillionaire--though he is an avowed socialist, his personal motto being, "Think like a socialist, act like a capitalist"--Strong, an honorary director of the Canada China Business Council, has family ties to the Communist state. According to a story told to Elaine Dewar in the Strong biography, Cloak of Green, Strong's cousin was the famous American Marxist writer Anna Louise Strong. After she eventually moved to China, becoming a member of the Comintern, Anna was held in such high esteem by the Maoists that when she died, in 1970, her funeral was personally arranged by former Chinese premier and communist hero Chou En-lai.

  
  

  

  

  
  Today, Maurice--who some wags have not coincidentally dubbed "Chairman Mo"--also spends much of his time in Beijing, where he keeps an office. That is, when he's not working alongside Secretary General Kofi Annan at the UN, as his special adviser and personal envoy. (In April, Strong stepped aside as the UN special envoy to North Korea after the investigators into the Iraqi oil-for-food scandal revealed he had ties to a Korean accused of bribing UN officials.) He has also been hired as a business consultant to the government of the Chinese province of Anhui. Currently, Strong is working with Anhui to help develop its Chery automobile industry, and has also been hired by former New Brunswick sports car impresario Malcolm Bricklin, who plans to export the Chery to North American markets.

  But perhaps Strong's most lasting legacy will be the Kyoto Accord, which is considered to be largely his brainchild, emerging from recommendation from the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, which Strong chaired. And the Chinese should be grateful for it. The accord, while binding the hands of western countries like Canada, by forcing them to lower greenhouse gas emissions, turns out to be a windfall for the Communists. China, the world's worst polluter, thanks to its massive coal burning industries, is not only exempt from achieving any Kyoto targets, it is permitted to sell so-called offset credits, that is, gas allowances it doesn't use, to regulated nations, such as Canada, for millions, perhaps billions of dollars. Canada can also gain greenhouse credits through a process called "joint implementation," whereby Ottawa pays to construct power plants in countries like China that are more efficient than existing infrastructure. In the $10-billion Kyoto plan unveiled in April, the Liberals specified that Canada will both utilize offset credits and joint implementation strategies to meet its Kyoto targets. Meanwhile, companies in China unbound by emissions limits, such as CITIC's electrical generation and manufacturing interests, can only expect to gain more competitive advantage over their North American peers.

  While western governments such as Canada's have been taking pains to act as multilaterally as they can, by signing on to agreements such as Kyoto, political observers point out that China plays by a different set of rules. Even if Beijing had sold off all of its carbon emissions credits, it's unlikely it would ever feel obliged to limit its own carbon emissions and risk stifling its thundering economic growth. After all, the Communists routinely flout all sorts of international agreements, from human rights codes to trade rules. "China has proven that despite all the promises it made when it joined the World Trade Organization and everything else, it has no intention whatsoever in being a good international corporate citizen," says the American Foreign Policy Council's Santioli.

  If anything, the country that Ottawa seems so eager to do business with is becoming more menacing every year. William Hawkins, senior fellow in National Security Studies at Washington's U.S. Business and Industry Council Education Foundation, visited China last November on a fact-finding tour. He stayed in a CITIC-owned hotel in Zhuhai where the company was promoting a nearby air show, displaying large models of its fighter jets in the lobby. Hawkins remembers the chilling sight of hotel porters dressed like the jet fighter's ground crew and the women behind the front desk decked out like fighter pilots. "So far, Chinese reform has moved from communism to fascism," says Hawkins. "You still have the party running things, but you've just changed the economic system. It's directed capitalism, national capitalism." While the Cold War was fought with the understanding that the Soviet economic system was unworkable, and would eventually collapse on itself, "a China with a booming economy is going to be a much bigger challenge than Communist Russia was," says Hawkins. "China is using its gains from trade to build and finance the next great world power whose ambitions and values are different from ours."

  

  
  

  John Thompson, director of the Toronto-based MacKenzie Institute, a security think-tank, says China "scares the hell" out of him--more so, even, than Arab terrorists. "After the jihadists they are the big security threat," says Thompson. "The jihadists are noisy and in our face, but in the long run they are not our real threat. They can be an inconvenience, but if they ever really goad us sufficiently we'll be sorry about what we did to them, but they won't be around. China is the emerging security threat. They are going to give us as severe a challenge as the Nazis and the Fascists in the 1940s."

  

  Washington seems to be taking the signals coming from China--from its huge military buildup to its rocket launches--as that the Communists are jockeying to become the world's first superpower, and are warning allies to stop abetting the enemy. In April, the U.S. Department of Defence banned Israel from participating in a massive air force project after Israel agreed to help the Chinese army upgrade its unmanned drones. A few weeks earlier, U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice spoke out against a plan by European countries to lift a 15-year ban on arms sales to China, warning that the weapons may one day be used against America. "It is the United States--not Europe--that has defended the Pacific," Rice told a news conference. "The European Union should do nothing to contribute to a circumstance in which Chinese military modernization draws on European technology or even the political decision to suggest that it could draw on European technology."

  Rice's comments came just days before she paid a visit to the Red state. While there, she made a point of attending a service at one of the officially atheist nation's few legal churches, as a sign of protest against the Communists' suppression of religious freedoms. It's that kind of public pro-democratic gesture, the sort that Paul Martin scrupulously avoided on his Beijing visit, that optimists like Norm Altenhof hope will pressure the Chinese to reform their fascist state. In the meantime, Martin and those who surround him seem to prefer that things in China stay just the way they are.

  
  
  

  Canada Gutted a '97 Report That Recommended a Border Strike Force Targeting PRC Triads. Now Washington Wants Action.

  Feb 11, 2025
  
  Recommendations and findings from the 1997 Sidewinder report return to the spotlight in the wake of Washington’s call for action over border security.
  
  By The Bureau
  
  

  
  

  Summary

  Author of the controversial 1997 Sidewinder report, a joint CSIS and RCMP study that found evidence of Canadian politicians under Chinese influence, has come forward with new details about the report’s alleged suppression.

  Project Sidewinder claimed Beijing agents were funneling money into Canadian political parties and that communist spies had infiltrated Canadian assets and institutions. Now, with new allegations of China’s electoral interference in Canada, the Sidewinder report is once again in the spotlight.

  Michel Juneau-Katsuya, the former CSIS intelligence officer who authored the report, claims a senior CSIS official ordered the destruction of key documents and the suppression of the explosive Sidewinder draft, which had the backing of a senior RCMP officer.

  Juneau-Katsuya recounts creating three identical binders documenting the report’s findings. One was given to a senior CSIS official who ordered its destruction. The second copy went to the RCMP. Juneau-Katsuya kept the third until it was confiscated by his agency before he could submit it to SIRC, an independent intelligence watchdog charged with overseeing and reviewing the operations of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS).

  SIRC documents reveal that an RCMP Chief Superintendent supported the forceful June 1997 Sidewinder draft, which named Hong Kong tycoons and flagged major firms. However, CSIS leadership disputed its findings and destroyed related documentation.

  Juneau-Katsuya’s account of events is corroborated by retired RCMP officer Garry Clement, whose intelligence gathering in Hong Kong findings (in tandem with  former Canadian diplomat Brian McAdam) prompted the Sidewinder review.

  Ultimately, CSIS rejected the report’s key findings, including the creation of a multi-agency task force to counter China’s state-backed criminal influence. The Chief Superintendent who supported the original draft, revealed as Richard Proulx by both Juneau-Katsuya and Clement, objected to alterations made to the rewritten Sidewinder report, changes which significantly misrepresented the information uncovered.

  More than two decades later, U.S. President Donald Trump’s threats over Canada’s failure to curb fentanyl trafficking and transnational smuggling have brought the long-forgotten Canadian intelligence back under scrutiny, as well as the kind of organized crime strike force that Sidewinder originally proposed and that Washington is now pressuring Ottawa to implement.
  
  *Everything about Sidewinder was leading to Jean Chretien so he had the report
   trashed, totally censored.
  
  

  *Sidewinder
  Secret
  RCMP-CSIS Joint Review Committee
  	Chinese Intelligence Services  and Triads Financial Links in Canada Draft Submitted  to the RCMP-CSIS  Joint Review Committee 24 June 1997

  
  https://www.primetimecrime.com/Articles/RobertRead/Sidewinder%20page%20
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  https://www.scribd.com/document/34328956/Chinese-Intelligence-Services-and-Triads-Financial-Links-in-Canada