The Public Health Agency of Canada is an agency of the Government of Canada that is responsible for public health,emergency preparedness and response,and infectious and chronic disease control and prevention.
John Reid Morden was a Canadian civil servant who was the director of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service from 1988 to 1992. From 1991 to 1994,Morden served as deputy minister of foreign affairs.
Kwok Chi (Michael) Chan is a Hong Kong Canadian politician in Ontario,Canada. He was a Liberal member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 2007 until 2018. He represented the riding of Markham-Unionville. Chan served as a Cabinet Minister,during his entire tenure in politics in the governments of Dalton McGuinty and Kathleen Wynne. Michael Chan presently serves as the Deputy Mayor of Markham. Chan has also served as a Senior Business Advisor for the law firm Miller Thomson LLP in Vaughan and as a member of the board of governors at Seneca College.
The Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation,commonly called the Trudeau Foundation,is a Canadian charity founded in 2001 named after former Canadian prime minister Pierre Trudeau.
Robert Fife is a Canadian political journalist and author who served as Ottawa bureau chief for The Globe and Mail.
Diplomatic relations between Canada and China officially date back to 1942,when Canada sent an ambassador to the Republic of China. Before then,Canada had been represented by the British ambassador. The Communist victory in the Chinese Civil War and subsequent proclamation of the People's Republic of China in 1949 resulted a break in relations that lasted until 1970,when Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau became one of the first Western leaders to recognize the People's Republic of China.
Yuen Pau Woo is a Canadian politician who has served as a senator from British Columbia (BC) since 2016. He was previously facilitator of the Independent Senators Group (ISG),taking on the role from September 2017 until January 2022. Woo was also the president and CEO of the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada,a Vancouver-based think-tank on Canada–Asia relations,until August 11,2014.
Victor Oh is a retired Canadian politician who served as a Canadian senator from Ontario from January 2013 until his mandatory retirement in June 2024.
Han Peng Dong is a Canadian politician who is serving as the member of parliament (MP) for Don Valley North. Sitting as an independent,Dong was elected to the House of Commons in 2019 as a member of the Liberal Party. He previously served as the member of provincial parliament (MPP) for Trinity—Spadina from 2014 to 2018,with the Ontario Liberal Party. In March 2023,Dong stepped down from the Liberal caucus due to allegations that he advised the Chinese consul general in Toronto against the release of Michael Spavor and Michael Kovrig,and helped the consulate interfere in the 2019 federal election.
François-Philippe Champagne is a Canadian politician who has been Minister of Innovation,Science and Industry since 2021. He was formerly the Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2019 to 2021. He was elected to represent the riding of Saint-Maurice—Champlain in the House of Commons in the 2015 election for the Liberal Party. He became Minister of Innovation,Science and Industry on January 12,2021,after a cabinet reshuffle.
The premiership of Justin Trudeau began on November 4,2015,when the first Cabinet headed by Justin Trudeau was sworn in by Governor General David Johnston. Trudeau was invited to form the 29th Canadian Ministry and become Prime Minister of Canada following the 2015 federal election,where Trudeau led his Liberal Party to win a majority of seats in the House of Commons of Canada,defeating the Conservative government of Prime Minister Stephen Harper. Trudeau's Liberals were reduced to two minority governments in the federal elections of 2019 and 2021,with his party losing the national popular vote twice.
The SNC-Lavalin affair is a political scandal involving attempted political interference with the justice system by the Prime Minister of Canada,Justin Trudeau,and the Prime Minister's Office (PMO). The Parliament of Canada's Ethics Commissioner Mario Dion found that Trudeau improperly influenced then Minister of Justice and Attorney General Jody Wilson-Raybould to intervene in an ongoing criminal case against Quebec-based construction company SNC-Lavalin by offering a deferred prosecution agreement.
Ron Graham is a Canadian author and journalist.
In December 2018,Canadian nationals Michael Spavor and Michael Kovrig were taken into custody in China. It appeared that their detention on December 10 and subsequent indictment under the state secrets law were linked to the arrest of Huawei's chief financial officer,Meng Wanzhou,in Canada on December 1. In English-language media,the pair are frequently and colloquially referred to as the Two Michaels.
The foreign policy of Justin Trudeau is Canada's foreign policy since Justin Trudeau became Prime Minister in November 2015. Mélanie Joly has served as the Minister of Foreign Affairs since October 2021.
The People's Republic of China made attempts to interfere in the 2019 Canadian federal election and 2021 Canadian federal election and threatened Canadian politicians,according to Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) and the Parliament of Canada's Foreign Interference Commission. In late 2022,the Global News television network reported on a suspected attempt by the PRC to infiltrate the Parliament of Canada by funding a network of candidates to run in the 2019 Canadian federal election. In early 2023,The Globe and Mail newspaper published a series of articles reporting that the CSIS,in several classified documents,advised that China's Ministry of State Security (MSS) and United Front Work Department had employed disinformation campaigns and undisclosed donations to support preferred candidates during the 2021 Canadian federal election,with the aim of ensuring that the Liberals would win again,but only with a minority. In February 2023,CSIS concluded that the Chinese government interfered in the 2019 and 2021 elections. In May 2024,an official probe by parliament's Foreign Interference Commission found that China interfered in both elections.
The Trudeau cash-for-access scandal is a political scandal arising from newspaper reports in 2016 that Prime Minister of Canada Justin Trudeau had been attending cash-for-access events at the homes of wealthy Chinese-Canadians in Toronto and Vancouver,generating a political scandal. Attendees at these events,including attendees with connections to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP),would pay up to $1,525 per ticket to meet Trudeau. In response,the Liberal Party of Canada indicated that all party fundraising complied with Elections Canada rules and regulations.
Chinese government interference in Canada consists of espionage,compromise of politicians and government officials,election interference,transnational repression,and control of individuals and companies with ties to the Chinese government or Chinese Communist Party (CCP).
Zhang Bin is a Chinese political strategist and business magnate.
Millennium Golden Eagle International is a Chinese media company led by Zhang Bin.
