Written by: Yves Engler The foreign interference panic sweeping Canadian media and politics reflects US power and racism. The frenzy has already led to dangerous new legislation. The Canadian institutions most strongly connected to the US are leading the China interference scare. The Canadian Secu
Central figures promoting the China interference scandal are funded by the US. One of the most quoted individuals decrying Chinese interference in Canada, Mehmet Tohti, has worked for various US-sponsored Uyghur groups, notably the Uyghur Rights Advocacy Project (URAP), which was funded by the US’ National Endowment Fund for Democracy for their “advocacy” in Canada. Tohti’s URAP also played an important role in pushing Parliament to adopt a resolution calling China’s treatment of Uygurs a genocide, which pushed the Trudeau government towards more conflictual relations with Beijing.
This doesn’t sound like a bad thing to me? The article seems to indicate this is proof that US funding got the Canadian government to do something bad, but it sounds like quite the opposite, unless I’m misunderstanding…
This doesn’t sound like a bad thing to me? The article seems to indicate this is proof that US funding got the Canadian government to do something bad, but it sounds like quite the opposite, unless I’m misunderstanding…