Foreign governments have infiltrated Canadian politics, says CSIS director

[Timothy_Fitzpatrick]

The head of Canada's spy agency says foreign governments have infiltrated Canadian politics, CBC News reported Tuesday night.

"We're in fact a bit worried in a couple of provinces that we have an indication that there are political figures who have developed quite an attachment to foreign countries," Richard Fadden, the director of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, told CBC.

Mr. Fadden said Cabinet ministers in two provinces, which he did not name, are under control of foreign governments. He said the politicians haven't hidden their ties to foreign governments, and recently they've been shifting their policy decisions to reflect those relationships.

Mr. Fadden told the CBC that he has discussed with Canada's privy council how best to tell those provincial governments that there may be a problem.

He added several members of municipal governments in British Columbia are also agents of influence for foreign countries, CBC reported.

There is no evidence that any federal politicians have been infiltrated, he said.

"A number of countries take the view that if they can develop influence with people relatively early in their careers they'll follow them through. Before you know it, a country's providing them with money, some sort of covert guidance," Mr. Fadden said in his interview with CBC.

At least five countries, including China and Middle Eastern countries, are recruiting political prospects in universities, said CBC.

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and then...


CSIS head backtracks on allegations of foreign influence over Canadian officials
Petti Fong—Toronto Star

VANCOUVER—B.C.'s Premier Gordon Campbell(a now revealed Bilderberger controlled by Israel) is calling on the head of Canada's spy agency to back up his claims that cabinet ministers and public servants in the province are under the influence of the Chinese government.

The province was named by Canadian Security Intelligence Services director Richard Fadden in an explosive interview with the CBC in which he said the spy agency is tracking a number of public servants in British Columbia.

Fadden also alleged two cabinet ministers are under the influence of foreign governments. He did not say in which province the cabinet ministers had been elected, but did hint that the Chinese government was involved.

But on Wednesday, Fadden backtracked, downplaying the seriousness of his earlier allegations. None of the actions he referred to are illegal, he said in a statement.

"Foreign interference is a common occurrence in many countries around the world and has been for decades," he said.

Campbell on Wednesday said neither he nor the head of the public service in B.C. has ever been approached by CSIS about the suspicions and decried the aspersion on cabinet ministers and public servants.

"It's unprecedented and completely unprofessional," said Campbell. "I was shocked ... If in fact there was any evidence whatsoever that municipal politicians are being influenced by foreign government, I'd like to see it."

The Prime Minister's Office said Wednesday it has no direct information about Fadden's allegations.

Fadden said CSIS has not informed the Privy Council office of the cases he mentioned in the CBC interview.

"At this point, CSIS has not deemed the cases to be of sufficient concern to bring them to the attention of provincial authorities."

Saying the matter was "operational," Fadden declined further comment.

In the early 1990s, the RCMP and CSIS worked on a joint project called Operation Sidewinder that looked into allegations that Hong Kong and Chinese officials paid to gain influence over Canadian consulate staff in Hong Kong.

That investigation was shut down and one of the RCMP officers involved later filed an obstruction-of-justice complaint alleging his superiors tried to cover up the issue.

Fadden's remarks came as China's president Hu Jintao prepared to visit the G20 summit this weekend. It will be the Chinese leader's first visit to Canada since 2005.

China has rebuked Prime Minister Stephen Harper for not visiting the country during his first term in office. Harper visited Beijing in December 2009.

At a press conference in Beijing, Hu Jintao's spokesman made no mention of the allegations made by the Canada's spy agency.

Fadden's comments show remarkably poor judgment on the part of an agency that consistently prefers to operate behind the scenes, said retired political scientist Reg Whitaker, author of a book about privacy and surveillance who has been an observer of the spy agency for decades.

"For CSIS to make unspecified allegations on national television without apparently contacting the provincial government and federal government is something you and I and the general public shouldn't hear about," said Whitaker.

Whitaker was an advisor on the Air India report and said there had been similar suspicions raised about Indo-Canadian politicians with ties to their homeland.

Vancouver mayor Gregor Robertson said he has had no contact with CSIS.

"It's frustrating and unfortunate that local elected officials in BC had aspersions cast upon them without any justification," Robertson said in a statement.

"Both the public and the men and women who serve in local government across our province deserve an explanation."

Alan Lowe, who was the mayor of Victoria from 1999 to 2008 said the notion that China is trying to gain influence over municipal policy is absurd.

Simon Fraser University espionage expert Andre Gerolymatos said the comments by Fadden leave a cloud over the entire public service, politicians and anyone with a Chinese background.

"Every country uses agents of influence. If you're the Volkswagen representative in Canada and you're pushing your product, that makes you an agent of influence. It's a safe and legal term that can mean anything or nothing," said Gerolymatos Wednesday.

He suspects that CSIS went public with its suspicions, on the eve of the 25th anniversary of the Air India bombing which killed 329 people, to show the public that the spy agency was actively seeking out potential security risks in the country.

Gerolymatos said the suggestion raised by Fadden that China and countries in the Middle East are targeting students in university to foster their careers in politics doesn't make sense.

"How can you guess which of these kids are going to be important and make policy decisions?" said Gerolymatos. "And really, to what degree can a municipal politician further the cause of China or Middle East? By fixing their parking tickets?"

In Toronto, Premier Dalton McGuinty said it's up to CSIS and the federal government to "elaborate" on the spy bombshell, but added he assumes Ontario is in the clear because no warnings have been received from Ottawa about any cabinet ministers here.

"We have not been contacted," said McGuinty, who noted the CBC interview with the CSIS boss was taped "some weeks ago" and there has been plenty of time for warnings to be issued.

"So that means, from our perspective, no news is good news."

McGuinty suggested it's odd that CSIS would parcel out such a potentially explosive piece of information with no supporting evidence or details.

With files from Rob Ferguson

(meanwhile, Canadian Prime Minister, who apparently has no to Israel, was celebrating Hanukah with Israel's extremist mystical Rabbis, Chabad Lubavitch.)



Bad Libby Davies, how dare you call Israel's right to exist an occupation!

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[Timothy_Fitzpatrick]

Just who are those compromised Cabinet Ministers?

Traitor #1

Stockwell Day, Minister of International Trade and Minister for the Asia-Pacific Gateway.

President of the Treasury Board and Minister for the Asia-Pacific Gateway.

Stockwell Day, a rabid, fanatical supporter of the state of Israel and Stephen Harper's right hand man

He just also happens to have struck a recent deal with China



Oh, here is Stockwell now, playing what appears to be a friendly game of chess with a fellow Freemason.

[Timothy_Fitzpatrick]

Traitor #2

B.C. Premier Gordon Campbell





This bastard has privatized everything under the sun, exactly according to the Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion. He was also recently revealed as a member of Israel's rich-white-old-man proxy club, the Bilderbergers.

B.C. Premier Gordon Campbell today called comments by CSIS director Richard Fadden that municipal and provincial politicians in B.C. may be under the influence of foreign governments "both unprecedented and completely unprofessional" and demanded a full explanation.

"I think we have to hear what justifications there are for these kinds of doubts being cast and aspersions being cast on people that are trying to serve the public," Campbell said.

"I'm frankly incredulous by it. I expect a full and a detailed and a substantial explanation."

Campbell, a Zionist lackey, also recently announced a deal with the Chinese. Waita go Gordo!

Premier Gordon Campbell attends Bilderberg 2010 meeting
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gordon said "..these kinds of doubts being cast and aspersions being cast on people that are trying to serve the public"

Who do you think he intends by the phrase 'the public'? We know these people redefine words.

'the public' is the phrase used for the whole communist/capitalist/non-free/jewish media/political/lawyer/M.D./professor system, where all are entities are organized as corporations, and are subsidiaries of the parent corporation, usually a 'country' like the UNITED STATES FEDERAL CORPORATION, UK, EU, et al. And all of these are organized under the IMF.

under the system gordon is speaking about, 'the public' has a meaning, and under your system, the people's system, it has a different intention. So he's quite right, within the context of the language he uses, when he says 'the people that are trying to serve the jew (et al)'. You just don't hear it that way; as you have a 'public' education, which gave you the same definitions that 99% of the people you meet on a daily basis agree on. It doesn't mean it's the same as his definitions.

[Timothy_Fitzpatrick]

Good points.