The former governor general himself has long been friendly toward Beijing.
A public inquiry would be “a clear overlap with the work I have already started doing,” Johnston declares. A commissioner appointed under the Inquiries Act would have powers to order documents and subpoena witnesses to testify truthfully about what Beijing has been up to, but “I do not need the subpoena powers” provided by the Inquiries Act, Johnston advises.
. Canada’s elected representatives should mind their own business, and a public inquiry would disturb the confidence of Canadians in their government’s abilities to detect and defeat the intrusions of a hostile foreign state into the political life of the country. “I have concluded it would not serve a useful purpose to enhance trust,” Johnston concluded. Or in Cong Peiwu’s words, Canada should “immediately stop this self-directed political farce.
The United Front is a bullying and influence-peddling enterprise with a budget that now exceeds that of China’s foreign ministry. Through its control of the Overseas Chinese Affairs Office run out of China’s embassies and consulates, the United Front looms darkly over every aspect of life in Canada’s Chinese diaspora communities, and yet it’s mentioned only once, in passing, in Johnston’s 53-page report.
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