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PM Carney says China is a foreign interference, geopolitical threat for Canada (www.reuters.com)
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Canada's Prime Minister Mark Carney said that China is one of the largest threats with respect to foreign interference in Canada and is an emerging threat in the Arctic.

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Asked to elaborate at a news conference in Niagara Falls on Friday, Carney said Canada has to counter Chinese foreign interference threats. He also criticized China for being a partner with Russia in the war with Ukraine and said it is a threat to broader Asia and Taiwan in particular.

Carney said China is the biggest threat "from a geopolitical sense." "We're taking action to address," he added.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (1 children)

How exactly is a foreign country supposed to know that he wasn't a spy, but simply being used as an unwitting asset? Spavor DID in fact pass intelligence information to Kovrig.

The federal government literally settled with him because of it.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/spavor-government-settlement-1.7136196

[–] avidamoeba 5 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Wow I've somehow completely missed this.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 22 hours ago

It was certainly not widely mediatized. Imagine if China arrested the CEO of BlackBerry (when they were relevant) to further the economic interests of their neighbor, and in retaliation we arrested two spies and everyone cried about how unreasonable we were. It would make absolutely no fucking sense. But apparently it's China who's unreasonable in this affair....