{"id":16008,"date":"2023-12-31T11:05:12","date_gmt":"2023-12-31T16:05:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=16008"},"modified":"2024-02-03T21:07:51","modified_gmt":"2024-02-04T02:07:51","slug":"top-three-stories-of-2023-from-the-nations-capital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=16008","title":{"rendered":"Top Three Stories of 2023 from the Nation\u2019s Capital"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Niagara Independent, December 29, 2023 \u2013<\/em> As the New Year\u2019s countdown draws near, let us consider the most significant happenings in the Nation\u2019s Capital that have impacted Canadians through the past twelve months. In reverse order, here are the top-three Ottawa news stories of 2023.<\/p>\n

Number 3\u00a0 \u2013 Chinese Communist Party influence in Canada\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

There are multiple ways the country\u2019s independence has been potentially compromised by undue influence from the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). In a spring Wall Street Journal editorial, Brian Lee Crowley framed CCP influence as a significant existential matter for the country, \u201cOttawa\u2019s reaction to possible Chinese election meddling reveals a country whose institutions and elites have been so compromised that they can\u2019t protect Canada\u2019s national interests or those of its democratic allies.\u201d In June, the Globe and Mail published a lead editorial that asserted \u201cCanada must do more to defend our freedoms.\u201d<\/p>\n

The ties that seemingly bind the CCP with the Trudeau Liberal Party raises many troubling questions about Canada serving as a vassal state for the CCP. The concerns exceed the matters surrounding the foreign influence in Canada\u2019s federal elections. There are many critical issues in play that have been identified and written about in this space through 2023.<\/p>\n

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  1. Cover up of the virus research in the Winnipeg Lab and link to the genesis of COVID-19<\/li>\n
  2. CCP ties to Liberal business network, anchored by Power Corporation<\/li>\n
  3. Foreign interference in the 2019 and 2021 federal elections<\/li>\n
  4. Beijing money flowing into the Trudeau Foundation<\/li>\n
  5. CCP police stations and agents operating in Canada<\/li>\n
  6. Failure to respond to forced labour and human rights violations of the Uyghurs<\/li>\n
  7. \u201cMishandling\u201d of foreign intelligence as forwarded by CSIS<\/li>\n
  8. Federal investment in China \u2013 in the CPP and Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank<\/li>\n
  9. Repeatedly rejecting the need to establish a foreign agent registry<\/li>\n
  10. Deteriorating national defense leaving arctic territories unprotected to Chinese encroachment<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Taken together, Canadians have many outstanding questions about the CCP\u2019s activities in Canada that the Trudeau Liberals have gone to great lengths to keep buried. The \u201cpublic inquiries\u201d into foreign interference \u2014 first inquiry by Trudeau-family friend David Johnston and current inquire with Marie-Josee Hogue, who has close ties with Trudeau-family\u2019s legal past \u2014 are proving to be PR exercises put in play to obfuscate the facts and to kick the issue further down the road. At year\u2019s end, the independence of the Hogue inquiry has been brought into question, a development that had Andrew Coyne, the Globe and Mail\u2019s pundit quip on X, \u201cRuined \u2026 beyond repair. Before it\u2019s even started.\u201d<\/p>\n

    Number Two\u00a0 \u2013 Rising immigration numbers\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

    On June 16, 2023 Canada\u2019s population surpassed the 40 million mark (growing nearly five million since the Trudeau government was first elected in 2015).<\/p>\n

    In 2023 (as it had in 2022) Canada\u2019s population grew by a record amount, more than one million-plus people per year, and almost 98 per cent of the growth is a result of immigrants \/ migrants.<\/p>\n

    In November the government announced its planned \u201cpermanent resident\u201d target for the next three years, amounting to almost another one and a half million immigrants, and 98 per cent of the immigrants are scheduled to come from India, China, Pakistan, Lebanon, Syria, and other African countries (only two per cent will come from UK\/Europe).<\/p>\n

    But the stated \u201cpermanent resident\u201d number is only half the Trudeau-migrant tally. Today the government states there are 2.2 million \u201ctemporary residents\u201d who are in Canada and, at the same time, admits this official number may be off by as many as one million people. Also, there are increasing numbers of asylum seekers crossing the border and landing at international airports, and a greater number of refugees being welcomed from Afghanistan, Ukraine \u2013 and now Gaza.<\/p>\n

    The Trudeau government\u2019s migration plan is guided by the United Nations\u2019 Global Compact for Migration, which it signed in early 2017. This global agenda set in place a system for \u201csafe, orderly and regular\u201d migration from 3rd world countries, mostly from the continent of Africa. Today, Canada has the world\u2019s largest intake of 3rd World migration \u2013 mostly from Africa.<\/p>\n

    The breaking news through the holidays from Statistics Canada was that in a three month period (July 1 \u2013 October 1, 2023) Canada added 430,635 people. Four percent (17,225) are attributed to births, and 107,972 are \u201cpermanent residents.\u201d So, simple subtraction reveals that there are more than 305,000 migrants of other \u201ccategories\u201d who entered Canada in the summer months.<\/p>\n

    It is a fact that Canada has a glorious history as a land that was built up by immigrants. However, this current unprecedented influx of people is changing the face of the country and causing great pressures on Canada\u2019s cost of housing, shortages in health care, and urgent needs for greater social services, transportation, and law enforcement. Yet the Trudeau government is intent on more migration and has repeatedly stated it will not alter its immigration plan.<\/p>\n

    Number One\u00a0 \u2013 Canadians\u2019 declining standard of living\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

    This was a horribilis annus for Canadians. The facts speak for themselves:<\/p>\n