Justin Pierre James Trudeau is a Canadian politician serving as the 23rd and current prime minister of Canada since 2015 and leader of the Liberal Party since 2013. Trudeau is the second-youngest prime minister in Canadian history after Joe Clark;he is also the first to be the child of a previous holder of the post,as the eldest son of Pierre Trudeau.
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.
Kwok Chi (Michael) Chan is a 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 a Senior Business Advisor for the law firm Miller Thomson LLP in Vaughan. Chan also serves as a member of the board of governors at the Seneca College of Applied Arts and Technology.
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.
Canada–China relations,or Sino-Canadian relations,officially date back to 1942,when Canada sent an ambassador to China. Before then,Canada had been represented by the British ambassador. The Communist victory (1949) in the Chinese Civil War caused 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 and academic 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.
Mélanie Joly is a Canadian politician and lawyer who has served as minister of Foreign Affairs since October 2021. A member of the Liberal Party,Joly represents the Montreal-area riding of Ahuntsic-Cartierville in the House of Commons,taking office as a member of Parliament (MP) following the 2015 federal election. She has held a number of portfolios including Canadian heritage,tourism,and La Francophonie. Joly ran for mayor of Montreal in the 2013 Montreal municipal election,placing second behind eventual winner Denis Coderre.
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 amidst 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.
Marco Mendicino is a Canadian politician who has been the Minister of Public Safety since October 26,2021. A member of the Liberal Party,Mendicino represents Eglinton—Lawrence in the House of Commons,sitting as a member of Parliament (MP) since 2015. He was the Minister of Immigration,Refugees and Citizenship from 2019 to 2021.
François-Philippe Champagne is a Canadian politician who has been Minister of Innovation,Science and Industry since 2021. Champagne 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.
Michael Wernick is a Canadian retired public servant who served as the 23rd clerk of the Privy Council for Canada from 2016 to 2019. Following his tenure as clerk,Wernick joined the University of Ottawa,where he was named Jarislowsky chair of public sector management.
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.
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.
Jody Thomas is a Canadian public servant who has been the national security advisor to the prime minister of Canada since 2022. Thomas has held a number of roles in the Public Service of Canada.
In late 2022,Global News reported on a suspected attempt by the People's Republic of China to infiltrate the Parliament of Canada by funding a network of candidates to run in the country’s 2019 federal election. In early 2023,The Globe and Mail published a series of articles,reporting that the Canadian Security Intelligence Service,in several classified documents,advised that China had employed disinformation campaigns and undisclosed donations to support preferred candidates during the 2021 federal election,with the aim of ensuring that the Liberals would win again,but only with a minority.
In 2016,newspaper sources reported that 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 indicated that all party fundraising complied with Elections Canada rules and regulations.
Chinese government overseas influence operations in Canada have allegedly risen to the extent that they represent an alarming security threat to the United States,which has conducted a secret probe of the issue,according to former Canadian and US intelligence officials. These operations consist of espionage,compromise of politicians and government officials,election interference,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.
