What disturbs me is that when this report was released, the Tories asked 0 questions about it in QP. Only when it was clear the media was going to chew on this for a few more days did they get interested in “naming names”.
This has me thinking about what’s been happening in the CPC post election. The first effort to oust O’Toole was led by the United Front-connected Chinese Canadian Conservative Association (many once grass-roots Chinese Canadian community and business groups have been Astro-turfed by the United Front). The second attempt, they were in the background but let the convoyists lead the charge.
During the leadership, Beijing-friendly Patrick Brown was disqualified for unspecified hanky-panky. Jean Charest worked for Huawei. Then after Poillievre won, we heard nothing from the CPC about taking a harder line on Beijing until Global and the Globe and Mail started publishing their foreign interference stories. Even then, PP was only half-heartedly going after the government on this, or when he did, it was comically over the top. When the report revealed CPC related CCP shenanigans, PP wouldn’t address and the media wouldn’t press him. But if some obscure CPC MP from Fort Bumfucknowhere, SK said he was pro-life, the media reported on it for a month.
I hope I’m wrong that the CPC has their own reasons for burying this if they win the next election. But what I’m seeing so far isn’t giving me confidence.