in an open letter to Canada’s Minister of Public Safety and the Foreign Influence Commissioner, NDP MP Jenny Kwan is demanding officials verify findings of a new report on the global proliferation of illegal Chinese police stations.
“These allegations warrant immediate attention,” Kwan wrote in response to the Nov. 6 report called A Formula for Repression – China’s Global Grid for Community Control.
“The Canadian government has an obligation to verify the report’s findings, determine whether these operations are active in Canada and establish whether individuals or organizations are facilitating activities on behalf of the Chinese government that constitute foreign interference, intimidation or coercion.”
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The report’s author, Laura Harth of Safeguard Defenders, found more than 10 police forces from five Chinese provinces are involved in a global network of Chinese Communist Party operatives whose “core aim” is to control the diaspora.
In two 2022 reports, Safeguard Defenders detailed the activity of more than 100 overseas Chinese police stations in more than 50 countries. The RCMP investigated groups in Richmond, Toronto and Montreal, but did not recommend charges.
Kwan’s letter to Minister Gary Anandasangaree and Commissioner Anton Boegman asks whether Chinese overseas police stations or affiliated networks remain active or have expanded operations since 2022 in Canada. She seeks protection for any member of Canada’s Chinese, Hong Kong, Uyghur, Tibetan and Taiwan communities at risk of intimidation, surveillance and coercion.
“Canadians must be free to speak, organize, protest and participate in public life without fear of intimidation or reprisal from foreign states,” Kwan wrote.
“The Prime Minister and the Minister of Public Safety have an obligation to ensure that these allegations are investigated and addressed without delay.”
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Harth’s new report explains how the Chinese Communist Party divides every city, town and village into grids of a few hundred households. Each grid has a manager who reports upward. Nine of the 10 tasks for managers involve surveillance and control.
“There is a file on every resident,” said Harth’s report. “Anything seen as a threat to Party rule is escalated to a hub where enforcement stands ready to act. Internationally, this system of mass surveillance, control and suppression is projected through a global grid of United Front-affiliated organizations or designated liaisons. They are run by the Party’s ‘bridge and bond’ to the diaspora: the Overseas Chinese Federation.”
Safeguard Defenders found nearly 1,250 liaisons in at least 91 countries carrying out domestic grid functions abroad.
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@AGM@lemmy.ca
Read the report by Safeguard Defenders. From your comment, one can easily infer that you haven’t done so.
You are generally supporting the Chinese government, at least this is what your comment history tells.
It’s evident you didn’t even read my comment, in which I indicate I read it and that’s what I base my comment on, and where I suggest Canada protect itself from foreign interference with higher standards.
Do go ahead and lean into posting history though. Many of us know yours, and the history of your other sockpuppet accounts always pushing the same narratives.
@AGM@lemmy.ca
The report by Safeguard Defenders contains hundreds of sources and is a well-sourced investigation. Everyone who has read it knows this. Your comments perfectly fit into Chinese propaganda slop. It is the same wording, the same pseudo-intellectual tonality.
Lol, your attempts are so weak, Scotty. I’m even encouraging people to go read it themselves so they can see the way it’s written. I’m encouraging people to read and judge for themselves, including reading both my posting history and yours.
The real irony here is you pushing a US-funded report as something to guide Canada’s internal policies while claiming to oppose foreign interference. The RCMP and CSIS don’t need a foreign-funded advocacy group.
The next piece of disinformation.