The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - June 17, 2024


Former Liberal says Trudeau is serving ＂his Beijing Masters＂

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foreign interference in Canada
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Wyatt Claypool
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King Vaughn Gang Tan Justin Trudeau Adam Vaughn Speaker Michael Chan Kevin Vong Doug Ford Danforth North Jagmeet Singh Majid Johari Honourable Handong Spadina York Sikh
Parliament is full of traitors after 8 years of Justin Trudeau Justin Trudeau's polling hits an embarassing Low!

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Justin Trudeau and his Liberal Party are really taking this new foreign interference scandal on the chin. I think they assumed by starting up this NISACOP committee to study foreign interference, that there might be some findings of Liberal MPs or Senators who were involved with foreign governments that the Liberals could then expel and pretend that they had solved all the problems. But I don t think Justin Trudeau expected the sheer scale of how many Liberal MPs and Senators might be involved withforeign governments. And now, it s obviously finding far more people implicated than he assumed.

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00:00:00.000 Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his Liberal Party are really taking this new foreign interference scandal on the chin.
00:00:07.100 I think they assumed by starting up this NISACOP committee to study foreign interference
00:00:12.160 that there might be some findings of Liberal MPs or Senators who were involved with foreign governments
00:00:18.440 that the Liberals could then expel and pretend that they had solved all the problems,
00:00:22.060 but I don't even think Justin Trudeau expected the sheer scale of how many Liberal MPs and Senators
00:00:28.720 might be involved with foreign governments.
00:00:32.180 I think he just assumed that maybe they'll find something out about Handong and they'll prevent him from rejoining caucus,
00:00:37.860 or Majo Jahari will be seen to be involved with the Iranian regime and then they can kick him out,
00:00:43.200 but it looks like it could implicate dozens of Liberal MPs,
00:00:46.740 and this has been an absolute worst-case scenario media firestorm for the Liberals,
00:00:52.460 setting up opposition MPs for great attacks on the Liberals that they have no equivalent scandals
00:00:58.520 to swing back at.
00:00:59.820 That's kind of been the story with the Liberals the entire time.
00:01:02.780 Usually what governments will do when they are caught in a bad scenario,
00:01:06.740 they are caught with their hand in the cookie jar,
00:01:08.580 is that at the very least they can find somebody from another party in the past who has done something similar.
00:01:14.260 The problem in Canada right now is the Liberals are setting new precedents for how corrupt you can be,
00:01:19.360 so that they can't point and say, well, a Conservative did it too,
00:01:22.300 well, an NDP MP did it too,
00:01:23.900 because nobody's done stuff like they've done before.
00:01:27.220 And now I want to jump you over to this amazing clip of former Liberal MP Kevin Vong,
00:01:33.660 now sitting as an independent,
00:01:35.500 going after Justin Trudeau's government for basically kowtowing to what Vong calls Justin Trudeau's Beijing masters.
00:01:44.100 I think this is a great clip,
00:01:45.260 and this man, Kevin, does deserve to join the Conservative caucus.
00:01:49.160 He's been great on foreign interference issues.
00:01:51.140 The Honourable Member from Spadina, Fort York.
00:01:54.020 Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister once said that he thought ENSECOP was well-suited to examine foreign interference
00:01:59.320 in Canada's democracy and democratic institutions.
00:02:02.760 But apparently, not anymore.
00:02:04.880 Why the change?
00:02:06.080 Was it an ENSECOP report that shed some redacted light on the willing involvement of Liberals guilty
00:02:11.700 of seeking political and financial benefit?
00:02:14.660 Does the Prime Minister still feel that, quote,
00:02:16.740 Canadians need to have faith in their institutions and deserve answers and transparency, end quote.
00:02:22.780 Or has this party's Beijing masters called for a reversal?
00:02:25.960 And this is a great point for him to be making,
00:02:31.440 because Trudeau was the one who called for the ENSECOP committee to be made in the first place,
00:02:35.840 with some pressure, obviously, from the Conservatives and the NDP.
00:02:39.240 But he thought he could get this thing to go away.
00:02:41.400 And now, it's obviously finding far more people implicated than he assumed.
00:02:45.860 And now, this response from the Liberals really proves just how in the corner they are,
00:02:51.340 because now they're going to say, well, at least we made the committee in the first place.
00:02:55.500 That's unprecedented for a government to do.
00:02:58.120 Well, it's unprecedented to need the investigation in the first place.
00:03:01.700 But here is a Liberal hack to respond to this question instead of the Prime Minister himself.
00:03:06.680 The Honorable Minister for Public Safety.
00:03:08.640 Mr. Speaker, our colleague should be careful before he simply makes up stuff in question period
00:03:14.580 and asserts things that he knows are absolutely false.
00:03:18.120 He knows very well, Mr. Speaker, that our government created for the first time ever
00:03:22.320 a committee of parliamentarians to oversee the work of our security agencies.
00:03:26.880 We think it's important for parliamentarians.
00:03:28.680 No, it's only because it was needed because of what you guys were doing.
00:03:32.480 That's like saying we're the first ones to institute a committee to oversee the illicit drug use of members of parliamentarians.
00:03:38.640 It's like, well, why do you need that now?
00:03:41.820 It's almost like a new problem arose that you guys had to pretend to be tackling and now you're regretting it.
00:03:48.700 ...governmentarians from every political party and the other place to do this important work.
00:03:53.560 We've acted on their recommendations.
00:03:55.120 We thank them for this important contribution to the fight against foreign interference
00:03:59.420 and to a series of other measures important for assuring the national security of all Canadians.
00:04:04.660 Just an absolute limp response.
00:04:08.900 They have nothing.
00:04:09.840 They didn't touch on anything Kevin had said.
00:04:12.720 And Kevin himself is a victim, in my opinion, of foreign interference.
00:04:17.440 So he was the liberal candidate for the riding of Toronto Spadina, Port York.
00:04:21.780 I don't hit him for the fact that he ran as a liberal.
00:04:25.320 You're in the most downtown riding ever.
00:04:27.160 So if you're going to run for a party, I'd rather an anti-communist try and sneak in through a liberal riding as a liberal MP.
00:04:34.140 But it seems like what happened in the background is liberal MP Handong, the MP for Danforth North, he right now sits as, or like Don Valley North, sorry.
00:04:46.860 He right now sits as an independent because his connections with the Chinese government were so clear.
00:04:51.880 He was talking with the Chinese embassy or Chinese ambassadors in order to negotiate not releasing the two Michaels from custody in China too early.
00:05:01.160 It was completely nuts what kind of stuff he was obviously engaged in.
00:05:04.760 And it looks like the report has found even more out about him.
00:05:07.820 That's why Jagmeet Singh, after having read some of the report, basically said soon after his comments about the report,
00:05:14.260 he kind of made a slight comment about how Handong probably shouldn't be let back in the liberal caucus.
00:05:19.380 But Kevin Vaughn occupies the federal seat that is over top of the old provincial parliament seat that Handong used to be in.
00:05:28.720 He was a provincial liberal who then lost his re-election bid, I believe, in 2014 or so.
00:05:35.260 The election before Doug Ford, or I think it was right when Doug Ford came in, he lost his seat.
00:05:39.900 And then Handong needed to find a new riding to run in. 0.99
00:05:42.740 But Adam Vaughn was the MP for Spadina for York at the time.
00:05:48.220 So then Handong went up to Don Valley North where there was another Chinese liberal MP occupying the riding.
00:05:55.140 His name was Gang Tan.
00:05:56.680 And they had an open nomination to see who was going to become the MP for that area.
00:06:01.140 Gang Tan had to run in a nomination to get re-nominated.
00:06:03.960 But somehow in the middle of that nomination, there was a fake sexual assault or fake sex scandal launched against Gang Tan that embarrassed him, that forced him to drop out.
00:06:15.660 Gang Tan famously was actually born in mainland China, but had moved obviously to Canada and become an MP.
00:06:22.000 He was actually decently pro-Taiwan and was willing to go on Taiwanese diplomatic trips until people like Handong and his other friend Michael Chen had basically threatened Handong or Gang Tan into not going.
00:06:38.480 The names get a bit confusing for me.
00:06:40.100 So Gang Tan was threatened to not go on this Taiwan trip by Handong and Michael Chen.
00:06:45.780 And then they somehow had launched, I'm assuming it was them just based on the convenience of it, a fake sex scandal to get Gang Tan out of the nomination so Handong could win it. 0.57
00:06:57.080 And then Kevin Vaughn, when Adam Vaughn leaves the riding of Spadina Fort York, sorry so many of the names are very similar, because it was on short notice that Adam said, I'm not running again, they made Kevin Vaughn the appointed candidate for Spadina Fort York.
00:07:10.280 And then, because this is Handong's old stomping ground, well, somehow there was a random sex scandal also launched against Kevin a week before the federal election that prompted Justin Trudeau to come out and say that he will never sit as a liberal MP in an attempt to keep Kevin from being able to win his election.
00:07:30.480 It was too late to remove him as the liberal candidate, so he barely still won.
00:07:35.160 But it's odd how in this area that used to be Handong's old stomping ground, that fake sex scandals were used both against Kevin Vaughn and Gang Tan in order to get them out of the way. 0.58
00:07:47.700 Obviously, Kevin was probably targeted because somebody found out that he is a lifelong anti-communist.
00:07:55.300 One of his parents is from South Vietnam and his other parent is Chinese and they're all very anti-communist.
00:08:01.500 And so they probably didn't want a potential whistleblower accidentally getting into the liberal government and being able to point out Chinese government connections that many of the MPs had.
00:08:10.780 We've had this in other cases where liberal MPs who were Sikh started calling out all of the pro-Kalistani cabinet ministers and other MPs and was kicked out of caucus.
00:08:21.300 And it seems like from the Chinese side of things, the same thing happened to Kevin Vaughn.
00:08:25.520 They didn't want a man who was anti-communist being in the government and poking around, just as they didn't want an anti-Kalistani in the government poking around and finding corrupt connections on that front.
00:08:36.520 And so hopefully this hasn't been too rambling of an explanation, but this is also why I think Kevin Vaughn should be re-added to the Conservative Caucus or I guess cross the floor into the Conservative Caucus.
00:08:47.600 He is a strong anti-communist.
00:08:49.520 He can win ridings in downtown Toronto.
00:08:51.600 No other Conservative could probably win.
00:08:53.920 And I think it would be rewarding Chinese interference to prevent Kevin Vaughn from being able to run in a competent party and be able to win re-election.
00:09:02.140 People like him need to be around, and I think this clip today proves why.
00:09:06.340 He is a dog with a bone on this issue, and we need more people to be aggressively anti-foreign interference in the Parliament.
00:09:13.940 Not just using it as an issue to thrash the Liberals with, but take on the issue in a serious manner in order to make the country safer in the long run.
00:09:22.720 Anyways, that should be it for me today, guys.
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