A corrupt ex-US President endorses a corrupt Prime Minister. Though it seems like a perfect match, there is a problem with this kind of desperate play so close to the election.
True North’s Leo Knight discusses this and more.
LAWTON: Elections Canada needs to take non-citizen voting seriously
In a democratic country, the integrity of elections must be preserved and protected.
Yet in Canada, the government doesn’t seem too bothered that an unknown number of non-citizens are receiving voters cards, which means ineligible voters may be casting ballots in our elections at the invitation of Elections Canada.
True North’s Andrew Lawton explains.
Canadians trust Scheer over Trudeau to handle the immigration file
Canadians think that Conservative Party leader Andrew Scheer would do a better job handling immigration in Canada than the current Liberal government led by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
A poll done by the Angus Reid Institute found that 28 per cent of Canadians think that the Conservatives would “do the best job managing the immigration file,” compared to 22 per cent who picked the Liberals.
Recently, Scheer announced that a Conservative government would focus the country’s immigration system on economic immigrants and refugees who come from vulnerable and persecuted groups. The Conservatives have also promised to put an end to illegal immigration across Canada’s border with the United States.
The poll also showed that a majority of Canadians underestimated the current number of immigrants entering into the country. Only 20 per cent of respondents were able to identify the correct figure of more than 300,000 immigrants coming to Canada this year. A majority (53%) believed that the number was lower.
“While residents of many European countries often over-estimate the proportion of their populations made up by foreign-born nationals, a slight majority of Canadians (53%) actually under-estimate the number of immigrants new to the country,” said the summary of the poll.
A significant number of Canadians (40 per cent) also believe that the current immigration level is too high, while another 39 per cent believe the target is “about right.”.
When asked whether the Trudeau government has performed well with regard to illegal border crossings, a majority of Canadians (56%) believe that the Liberals have been “too soft in their approach” to the crisis.
Since Justin Trudeau’s infamous “Welcome to Canada” tweet in 2017, approximately 45,000 illegal border crossers have entered Canada. The rapid influx has strained the nation’s immigration system, increasing the backlog for asylum and refugee claimants.
Projections by the Immigration and Refugee Board show that the backlog could grow to 100,000 by the end of 2021, meaning that applicants could wait in Canada for up to five years before receiving a decision on their claims.
Salim Mansur’s battle against Islamism
There’s no such thing as a simple answer when it comes to Salim Mansur.
The academic and journalist-turned-political candidate wants every question and every issue raised to be understood in what he says is the “necessary context.”
It makes for long conversations, though no doubt thoughtful ones.
Mansur is the People’s Party of Canada candidate in London North Centre, one of the highest profile and most vaunted candidates of Maxime Bernier’s fledgling populist party. Though this wasn’t the path Mansur had envisioned for himself even four months ago.
In June, Mansur was nine months into a campaign for the Conservative Party of Canada’s nomination in the same riding when he received a terse email from the party’s executive director notifying him his candidacy had been “disallowed.” No reasons were provided, though Mansur told me in a later interview that the Conservative campaign manager, Hamish Marshall, had told him there were concerns his past writings on Islam would be slammed in the media as “Islamophobic.”
Instead, the Conservatives acclaimed Sarah Bokhari, a Muslim woman from outside London, as their candidate.
It would seem like a blow against racism to replace a so-called “Islamophobic” candidate with a Muslim one, except there’s one problem. Mansur is, himself, a Muslim as well. His decades of writings and public statements have been in opposition to Islamism, not Islam itself.
The disqualification from the Conservative party and subsequent PPC candidacy is the latest iteration of a battle Mansur has been waging for decades. Or as he describes it, one being waged against him.
I’ve known Mansur for several years, meeting him first when I was a student at the University of Western Ontario, from which he retired last year. Though I was never in one of his classes, I sought him out because of my familiarity with his work. When I launched the podcast that ultimately led to my career in radio, he was its first guest.
He’s always been a fearless and credible commentator on immigration and multiculturalism, even when I’ve disagreed with his conclusions. This is why I was happy to assist him, as a friend, not in my capacity with True North, when he launched his nomination campaign. In the interests of disclosure, I’ve had no role in his PPC campaign, nor any other campaigns during the election period, but I consider Mansur a friend and a great Canadian.
I conducted a series of interviews with Mansur for this article both on the phone and in his downtown London campaign office.
Just over a month after being disqualified by the Conservative Party of Canada, Salim Mansur received a standing ovation when he was announced as the People’s Party of Canada candidate by Maxime Bernier himself in a London hotel conference room.
“We in the People’s party with Maxime Bernier are the only people in Canada, at this time in our history endangered by globalism and Islamism, fully prepared to engage in a national conversation on the subject,” Mansur said in his nomination speech.
Though this wasn’t always his position. Just three months prior, he published a video on YouTube entitled “The Conservative Party Stands Up For Canada.”
In it, Mansur makes the pitch that the Conservatives are not only the best choice for Canadians to defeat Justin Trudeau, but the only choice.
“I am confident the Conservative party under Andrew Scheer’s leadership understands the threats confronting Canadians, and has the resolve to counter them,” Mansur says before listing numerous sources of “pride” for him in the CPC platform, from fiscal management to tackling mass migration to standing up for freedom of speech.
“Let me remind you that since the act of Confederation in 1867 there are only two parties that have governed Canada: the Conservative party and the Liberal party,” he says. “That is not about to change, and any change that goes to weaken and divide the Conservative party can and only will benefit the Liberal party.”
Despite the apparent contradiction in these two speeches, Mansur explains it with his own take on Ronald Reagan’s famous quip that he never left the Democratic party, but rather it left him.
“I didn’t leave the Conservative Party of Canada,” Mansur says. “It was the Conservative party that kicked me out.”
The party has never provided any details officially about why Mansur was disqualified, though in a televised London North Centre debate, Sarah Bokhari, the Conservative candidate, said “Mr. Mansur was disqualified by the Conservative party because he’s been saying some questionable things for the ethnic communities.”
Mansur, who’s devoted his career to combatting radical Islam within small corners of the Muslim community and the western world more broadly, says his expulsion from the race is evidence of an Islamist infiltration into the political system.
“The word given to me for why I would not be the candidate is because I’m Islamophobic, Mansur says. “So from there you can draw the inferences that the leadership is bent upon appeasing the very people who for 20 years have been hounding me, which is the Muslim Brotherhood…. It is very clear to me that the party didn’t want me because then I would be, in a sense, the point man taking on the Muslim Brotherhood. But the party doesn’t want to discuss that.”
“The party is in full mode of appeasing the Muslim Brotherhood,” Mansur charges. “The four establishment parties – Liberal, Conservative, the NDP and the Green – are in full appeasement of the Islamists in the country. Except for PPC.”
Without any official statement from the Conservative Party of Canada, it’s difficult to accept or dispute Mansur’s interpretation of things. It’s well documented that the Muslim Brotherhood’s legitimate-seeming organizations in Canada and the United States have no doubt been embraced in the political process. However, it’s also plausible that the Conservative leadership, wishing to run a safe, centrist campaign, simply wanted to avoid a candidate who would obviously force the Conservatives to take a stand on the issue of Islamism.
It’s a necessary discussion in Canada, though clearly not an easy one.
Though Mansur’s critics may characterize him as being on the fringes, that simply isn’t accurate. His books on multiculturalism and Islamic reformation have been widely cited by academics and politicians. He was frequently called upon by the previous Conservative government to testify before various parliamentary committees.
Less than two years ago, Mansur was given an award on the Senate floor by Conservative senator Linda Frum, recognizing him for his work to promote interfaith dialogue between Jews and Muslims.
Mansur’s Conservative nomination campaign was endorsed by a long list of prominent Conservatives, including former national campaign manager Tom Flanagan and former member of parliament Diane Ablonczy.
This support shouldn’t surprise anyone given how long Mansur has been involved in Conservative politics.
In his first two elections as a Canadian citizen, he voted for Pierre Trudeau’s Liberals. But in 1984, he cast a ballot for Brian Mulroney. Since then, he’s been a stalwart rightward voter, even joining the Progressive Conservatives in 1988 before aligning with Preston Manning’s burgeoning Reform movement.
“I voted Liberal, but things changed,” he says. “My thinking changed. My understanding changed.”
Mulroney’s support for free trade was what initially galvanized Mansur’s support of the PCs, though it was Manning’s interest in Mansur’s writing on multiculturalism that sparked a friendship between the two. This eventually led to Mansur running for the Canadian Alliance in 2000, then supporting the campaign that brought the Alliance and Progressive Conservatives together as the Conservative Party of Canada in 2003.
Mansur was born in Calcutta in 1951, just a few years after the Indian partition created the Muslim-dominated state of Pakistan. It was tensions from that partition that led to the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971 that would threaten Mansur’s life. This not only triggered his move to Canada, but also shaped his outlook on the clash between liberty and the radicals seeking to upend it.
“In my teenage years, I lived through horrendous military dictatorship that turned into a genocide,” Mansur says. “To me this was not an abstract question sitting in some academic library and writing about it. This was a real question…. We are so privileged in Canada. We are so privileged in the United States. For children growing up here, all of this is abstract. The real concern is about people being able to live their life as God has given them the right to live their life – according to their choices, according to the values they treasure, according to the tradition that they want to defend.”
Those rights have been under “systematic attack” throughout the 20th century, Mansur says, whether it was communist China, the Soviet Union, or Arab dictatorships in Africa and the Middle East.
“We have repeatedly seen war – genocide. I spoke about that, and wrote about that having experienced it,” he says.
Mansur breaks away to talk about the work of political philosophers John Milton, John Locke and Bertrand Russell – authors he began reading as a teenager even before coming to Canada.
“I read them with the lived experience,” he says. “I didn’t read them as an academic or an undergraduate or graduate student in a classroom with professors. I read them as I was going through the experience. I was reading Russell when I was in my teenage years, seeing what was happening with the massacres taking place, and the repression taking place. I, too, was under repression. My friends were killed. My family members were attacked. I was attacked. I survived, somehow.”
Members of his immediate family were killed, however. He ultimately came to Canada in 1974 as a war refugee, sponsored by an aunt who was living here. The dire situation in his native land got his refugee file accelerated.
That slaughter has a death toll of as many as three million people – making it one of the most deadly conflicts of the 20th century, sandwiched between the Holocaust and the massacre at the hands of Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia.
“It was Islamists,” Mansur says. “I came to Canada. I went to university. I did all of that. And then, suddenly, I see the very people who had brought the disaster in the part of the world from where I fled were now ensconced right here in Canada. So I started talking about it. I started writing about it.”
As the Taliban in Afghanistan was gaining steam in the 1990s, Mansur was, as an academic and a journalist, closely monitoring the impact on south Asia. Afghanistan became the nesting ground for al Qaeda, birthing the 9/11 attacks.
Mansur understood Muslims needed to be the most prominent voices criticizing terrorism. He was shocked when people in the mosques would tell him to keep quiet.
“People came around and said, ‘Hey, you shouldn’t talk about this,’” Mansur says. “Especially the pro-Pakistani mosques, because of the Pakistani connection to Saudi Arabia…. These people in the mosque were basically fundamentalists – those who wanted to hold onto or take back the country as the Taliban was doing with Sharia law.”
While Sharia law is a well-known concept now, at the time it was just the subject of internal discussions amongst Muslims, Mansur says.
“I was opposed to that, but I was in the mosque, I would go to the mosque, I would engage with people, but they told me to stand down or cool down.”
Then came September 11.
You often hear people described as 9/11 conservatives – liberals who moved to the right when they saw the threat of Islamic terror. Mansur was a 9/11 pariah – a Muslim who realized the complacency, or in some rare cases complicity, of western Muslims in the radical Islamist current sweeping the world.
When Mansur ran for the Canadian Alliance a year prior, he found a great deal of support from the Muslim community. Many were conservatives; others knew and supported him as a friend; some were just eager to see Muslim voices represented in Parliament.
“Looking back, it was as if on a dime the world changed. On September 11, 2001, everything changed,” Mansur says. “It pushed me out of the (Muslim) community here in London.”
The more radical-minded Islamists within the Muslim community wanted an insular, exclusive society with their own laws and their own values.
“I was on the other side,” Mansur says, explaining how he felt – and still feels – people should engrain themselves in Canadian society.
“I’m a Muslim, but I’m reconciled with the modern world. In fact, that is the critical split inside the Muslim world – those who want to bring the Muslim world of the 13th century into the 21st century, and those who want to build a democratic society. That’s what I was trying to make these people understand. Their children are going to grow up as Canadians. Islam is their personal faith, but they have to be part of the Canadian society.”
The pushback from the Muslim community got so strong that Mansur, who is still a devout and observant Muslim, had to withdraw from the local mosque. It was either that or shut up about radicalism, though Mansur says the latter was never an option.
“To me it was a responsibility to warn my fellow Canadians that this is now the problems of the Middle East and the problems of the third world coming right into our society,” he says. “How are we going to confront this?”
Confronting this evil has come at a cost, however. Mansur has faced death threats, not to mention threats to his livelihood by activists insisting on de-platforming him.
In 2006, Mohamed Elmasry of the now-defunct Canadian Islamic Congress sent a formal complaint to the University of Western Ontario accusing Mansur of “hate-literature” and demanding the administration “instruct” him “to refrain immediately from promoting himself and his opinion columns through by (sic) associating them, in print or broadcast media, with one of Canada’s great universities.”
The school, to its credit, did not buckle. Two years later, Elmasry sent another complaint to Western, calling Mansur an “embarrassment” to the university and urging the school to investigate his “classroom approach and research methods.”
As taxing as the ongoing opposition is, Mansur says it’s only strengthened what he sees as a moral obligation to speak up about freedom and the fight to preserve it.
“It became the very principle upon which I stake my own philosophy,” he says. “My anchor – my worldview – is of freedom.”
For the last 30 years, he saw that anchor as having a foothold in the Conservative party, which he always understood to be rooted in the classical liberal tradition, even with the oft-cited big tent coalition of red Tories, blue Tories, libertarians and social conservatives.
Mansur says blue Tories like him are being forced out.
It’s easy to be skeptical of this claim given that Scheer himself comes from the blue Tory side of the conservative movement, having worked in both the Reform and Canadian Alliance parties before being elected as a Conservative member of parliament in 2004.
Scheer is also a social conservative, albeit one who’s worked to mute the pro-life presence in the Conservative caucus and slate of candidates.
Hamish Marshall, the Conservative campaign manager, is often criticized by left-wing conspiracy theorists as being on the “far-right” for his past directorship with Ezra Levant’s Rebel News.
Despite this, a belief that the Conservative party is no longer a conservative party is a cornerstone of the PPC’s existence. Mansur says even in the weeks before his candidacy was disallowed by the CPC he had started to grow concerned about a number of decisions the party had made.
Chief among them was the Conservatives’ treatment of their own their own MP, Michael Cooper. Cooper was the vice-chair of the Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights, but was booted from the post and had his words edited out of the official transcript after he rebuked a Muslim committee witness’ claims about conservatism being linked to violent killers.
“That gave me a sense that this party has lost whatever little remained of that blue Tory, small-c conservative (identity) with which I was associated,” Mansur says. “So I think the fair analysis is that I did not change. The party has changed. That is, the party under this leadership has changed. Hopefully a new leadership will bring it back.”
He thinks many of the Conservative members who backed Maxime Bernier in the 2017 leadership race will support the People’s party, though he’s aware that many will stay loyal to the Conservatives. This was a reality with which Mansur had to reckon even on his own campaign team.
“I said to my people in London that I am considering running for the PPC,” Mansur says of the period following his disqualification by the Conservatives. “I’m not going to allow the CPC to dictate my life and my politics. My friends who were with me in this campaign for the past 10 months, they made their decisions. Some decided to break away from me and remain loyal to the Conservative party and others chose to follow me and come with me and my campaign.”
The campaign has been far from uneventful. In the early days of his candidacy, Mansur’s son died in a car accident in British Columbia. Mansur learned this at the PPC’s convention in Ottawa, where he was due to give a speech.
His campaign signs have been vandalized, and his office windows broken.
And he was barred from an “all candidates” event at the London Muslim Mosque, where he used to pray.
The mosque hosted debates for the various London ridings’ election candidates, excluding from each one the local People’s party candidate. The reason, according to a mosque statement, is that the PPC “does not respect our religion and our people.”
“It is one thing to have differences of opinion on matters of foreign and domestic policy which go to the heart of the notion of democracy and why we have election campaigns. However, it is another thing entirely to show a complete lack of respect to an entire religion. And since our community has felt the wrath of Islamophobia and hate, we cannot give a platform to a party that cannot respect our faith or our people,” the statement said.
Call it a fitting twist for a man whose greatest frustration seems to be that no one wants to listen to what he sees as the pressing issues of our time.
Mansur relishes his status as a “public intellectual.” Through our conversations he often refers me to sections of his books. It’s not uncommon to feel as though you’ve wound up in an academic lecture while speaking with him. Like anyone who enters politics, he feels he has something to offer, though it doesn’t come from the opportunistic place it does for so many others. It’s clear Mansur has a heart for Canada – and is driven more by frustration than arrogance that his warnings about Islamism and globalism haven’t been heeded by the Conservatives.
Mansur is convinced that the Conservatives will not win the election. He hopes for a scenario in which the People’s party has enough members of parliament so as to be able to drive the agenda rather than the power going to the left-wing parties.
For the PPC to have success, Mansur says conservative voters need to get over what is at times an obsession with beating the Liberals.
“I think the bulk of the Conservative party members are obsessed with the idea that the priority for the country is to defeat Liberals,” he says. “That’s the compromise that they’re making. They’re bending or softening their position for the larger context that the Liberals have to be defeated, and that any sort of wavering on that issue will only weaken the coalition that makes up the CPC.”
He wants to see the Liberals defeated too, but notes that the People’s party is more concerned with what replaces the Liberals than the Conservatives are. If current trends keep up, Mansur says “you can kiss goodbye in our lifetime a conservative party forming a government in Canada.”
While he wants to be elected, he doesn’t see that as being essential for his campaign to be a success.
“I don’t see myself as a winner or loser,” he says. “I see myself as contributing to the conversation, and then it’s up to the people.”
MALCOLM: How many non-citizens will illegally vote — intentionally or unintentionally — in the upcoming federal election?
How many non-citizens will illegally vote — intentionally or unintentionally — in the upcoming federal election?
That’s the question many Canadians are asking themselves this week after multiple news reports show that non-citizens across the country are receiving Election Canada’s voter cards reminding them to vote on October 21.
British national Paul Gabriel received a voter card in the mail and went public about his concerns over the integrity of Canada’s federal election. He wrote a post on his Facebook page that was shared 21,000 times.
“I can vote with this card and an Alberta Drivers license, but I am NOT a Canadian citizen,” he wrote, posting a photo of the card he received in the mail, sent to a P.O. Box.
“Asking around some of my non citizen friends, I am not alone. I am not going to vote because I am not legally entitled to vote, but others will,” he stated, adding the following warning: “Your election is about to be stolen from you by illegal voters… Take your country back my Canadian friends, before it’s too late.”
Gabriel is right, he’s not alone.
The CBC found another non-citizen, Australian Glenn Ludlow, who also received the voter card despite not being a citizen.
“He’s not a citizen, he shouldn’t be getting these, and he won’t vote,” said Ludlow’s wife, who is Canadian. “He files taxes as a permanent resident, yet for some reason Elections Canada sends him voter cards.”
She went on, “my concern is, how many others are getting voter cards? If you’re not a citizen it shouldn’t be happening. There’s a glitch in the system.”
If it is a glitch, it’s one that Elections Canada is aware of and vowed to fix just a few months ago.
In May, Elections Canada admitted to a Senate Committee that it found 103,000 names of non-citizens illegally on the federal voter list. At the time, Chief Electoral Officer Stephane Perrault assured Canadians that Elections Canada would remove these names before the 2019 federal election.
Looks like that wasn’t the case.
As readers may remember, I first rang the alarm about this concern a year ago when I spoke to a Mexican family in Edmonton who received the card from Elections Canada despite not even being permanent residents in Canada let alone citizens eligible to vote in the federal election.
At the time, my report was met with a hysterical reaction from Liberal journalists and Elections Canada. My critics accused me of exaggerating the situation. In a series of tweets that sounded like they were coming from Liberal partisans and not the civil service, Elections Canada insisted that non-citizens were not being invited to vote.
Despite this criticism, a few months later Elections Canada admitted that these cards were being sent to non-citizens and committed to fixing it — proving that my story was correct and that my concerns about non-citizens tilting the outcome of the election were valid.
Those concerns are still valid, and more urgent than ever.
The only cases we are hearing about are from those sophisticated enough to understand the rules around voter eligibility, and who are honest and brave enough to come forward with their stories.
There could be more — as many as 103,000 more — non-citizens who will vote on October 21 and sway the outcome of the federal election.
“It’s a constant battle every day.” Victims of Edmonton terror attack speak out in court
Victims of Abdulahi Hasan Sharif are speaking out about their trauma and the years of recovery ahead, as an Alberta court considers the fate of the refugee-turned-terrorist.
Sharif is accused of carrying out a heinous ISIS-inspired terrorist attack in the fall of 2017.
Kim O’Hara, one of Sharif’s victims, recalled her first moments in the hospital to the court last week.
“The next thing I can recall from that night was laying on a bed with bright lights and people surrounding me. Past them I could see my boyfriend… looking very worried,” she said.
“I was ripping off whatever was attached to me. The nurses held me down and it went black.”
Sharif is alleged to have gone on a terror rampage in September 2017, first ramming his car into Edmonton police constable Mike Chernyk, then stabbing him multiple times and later of intentionally plowing a rental truck through pedestrian walkways and running over four people.
The flag of the terrorist group ISIS was found in the truck by police.
Sharif is on trial for five counts of attempted murder and is pleading not guilty.
O’Hara says it took over a week in the hospital for her to understand what had really happened to her.
“When people were talking to me, it was like a different language, not English,” she said.
“I didn’t know what was wrong. I just knew I was hurt.”
O’Hara’s mental health has also been negatively impacted since the terror attack, she told the court.
“In the last two years, I have been struggling with anxiety, depression and many negative thoughts,” she said.
“And it took me a long time to ask for help when I became suicidal.”
Jordan Stewardson also testified in court with O’Hara, recalling the first moments after Sharif hit her, O’Hara, and two other pedestrians.
“I thought it was an ambulance at first. I was thinking why is this vehicle coming off the road? Why is it not slowing down?” she said
After the attack, Stewardson woke up on the ground.
“I remember my chin feeling cold. I touched it and I was bleeding. I remember my chest hurting, my back, my elbows.”
Stewart says she has suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder, affecting her personal life and her lifestyle.
“I’ve ruined relationships because of it. It’s a constant battle every day,” she told the court.
“It’s like a vicious circle. I get mad I can’t do things at the gym. Every day I get triggers of what happened.”
Sharif was ordered deported to his native Somalia after he illegally entered the United States in 2011. Instead, he fled U.S. custodies and crossed illegally into Canada. In 2012, Canada accepted Sharif as a refugee despite his rejection by the United States.
In 2015, a former coworker reported Sharif to the police out of fear he was a supporter of ISIS, claiming he had a history of violent outbursts and radical beliefs. After an investigation, the RCMP deemed he was “not a threat.”
Earlier this year American congressmen penned a letter asking that more be done to address the gaps in the system that allowed Sharif to enter Canada.
“More than one year has passed since the attack, and it appears there has been no comprehensive study of the incident,” the letter said.
Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale responded by saying his government had done all they could have done.
FUREY: The existential issues voters need to think about
We’re in the final week of the election and there are important issues that have been neglected – the big-picture issues. Issues that are existential and affect the future of Canada.
How about the struggling oil and gas sector? What about China? What about our national identity?
True North’s Anthony Furey explains in his latest video.
MALCOLM: Former Clinton Aide Organized Private Liberal Election Fundraiser in NYC
Former senior aide to Hillary Clinton and former Clinton Foundation advisor Justin Cooper was one of the organizers of an exclusive New York City fundraiser held for Justin Trudeau’s Liberal Party of Canada, True North has learned.
According to a source, Cooper was involved in organizing the New York fundraiser for Trudeau’s re-election bid.
As Blacklock’s reported on Tuesday, the fundraising event for Liberal expatriates living in New York City was held on October 10 at an unknown address. While all political donations must be publicly disclosed, the deadline for reporting donors to Elections Canada is not until two months after the election.
Liberal MP Marc Miller attended the New York fundraising event, Blacklock’s reported, stating that Miller “agreed with the Liberal Party of Canada, through oral discussions, to attend a meet-and-greet among Canadian citizens living in New York City on October 10, 2019 at a Canadian citizen’s home in New York and collect donations from these Canadian citizens for his Canadian election campaign.”
It is not clear whether only Canadian citizens were invited, or if Americans and other foreigners were also in attendance.
Cooper is the notorious staffer who was responsible for setting up a private email for Clinton during her time as Secretary of State in the Obama Administration, which some say cost her the bid for the presidency. Clinton’s private server was registered to “Justin Cooper.”
According to reports at the time, Copper had “no security clearance and no particular expertise in safeguarding computers, according to three people briefed on the server setup.”
Chelsea Clinton once accused Cooper of sabotage and claimed an employee saw him “loading spyware” on computers at the Clinton Foundation. Chelsea wrote that she believes “Justin (has) taken significant sums of money from my parents personally — some in expenses, cars, etc. — and others directly.
In March of this year, Cooper was ordered to appear in court to answer questions in person and under oath about Clinton’s role in the 2016 Benghazi terrorist attack and cover-up.
In 2016, Cooper was ordered to testify in front of a 2016 U.S. House of Representatives panel on the topic of Clinton’s leaked emails. Cooper admitted that unauthorized attempts to log onto Clinton’s service happened “with some frequency.”
This is not the first time the Trudeau campaign has been working behind closed doors with Hillary Clinton and her entourage.
A 2014 email exchange made public through Wikileaks showed that Trudeau’s top aide Gerald Butts and other Liberal staffers were begging Clinton’s top aides Huma Abedin and John Podesta for a one-on-one meeting and photo op with Trudeau and Clinton.
Abedin said, “there was some unhappiness that they used this event to raise money for their political party when this was supposed to be a completely apolitical event.”
SHEPHERD: How ‘Politically Correct Totalitarians’ are Undermining Canadian Universities
Universities are secular spaces, so why do so many schools now mandate indigenous prayers before events? Why do academic courses now include segments on Indigenous medicine, when these practices are not scientific and little more than folk lore?
True North’s Lindsay Shepherd is joined by Mount Royal University Professor Frances Widdowson to discuss how efforts to promote Canada’s indigenous peoples is backfiring and is ultimately a disservice to people in those communities. They discuss the chilling totalitarian practices seen on Canadian university campuses and discuss ways to fight back, including new “rational spaces” for students to engage in an open dialogue and to combat the Left’s insistence on “safe spaces.”
“How many of us are there?” Non-citizen gets voter card for upcoming election
A non-citizen who received a voter card for the upcoming election is sharing his concerns about the integrity of Canada’s election.
Paul Gabriel, a British man living in Alberta, was shocked to find that he had received a voter card in the mail for the October 21 election.
“I didn’t think very much of it. I thought, ‘this is just a mistake,'” said Gabriel.
“I’ve been here 19 years and I’ve never had one yet.”
Gabriel has lived in Canada for almost 20 years without receiving a voter card, he has never been a Canadian citizen.
While it could have been an isolated incident, Gabriel decided to speak out when he learned that one of his co-workers, another non-citizen, received the same voter card telling them where and how to vote.
Gabriel’s post sharing his story on Facebook has been shared over 16,000 times, with many other non-citizens saying they also received voter cards.
How many of us are there?” Gabriel said.
“I’m looking closer at the card and thinking there must be something else that stops me from voting.”
Gabriel fears that the little identification needed to vote may lead to some non-citizens voting.
“There must be a safety valve or a check or something like that… and I’m looking at it, and no, there isn’t. I can just use my driver’s licence.”
It was only a few months ago that Elections Canada identified over 103,000 potential non-citizens on the voter registry.
Over 40,000 of these had been on the registry since 1997.
Elections Canada, in the wake of this serious risk to the integrity of Canada’s election, chose to remind everyone that it is illegal for non-citizens to vote.
While Elections Canada has claimed that every potential non-citizen on the registry either had gotten citizenship recently or been removed situations like Gabriel’s appear to still be occurring.
This is not a new issue either, as early as October 2018 True North founder Candice Malcolm reported that a Mexican asylum seeker had received a letter from Elections Canada telling her that “registering in advance will ensure you’re on the voters list and will save you time at the polls.”
“I don’t know where they got her information to begin with, but they sent her a registration card,” the woman’s husband told the Toronto Sun as she was still learning English.
“She’s taking ESL classes, we haven’t even been in the country a year and a half, and the Liberals are sending a vote registration card.”
It is unclear how many non-citizens will receive voter information cards, or if Elections Canada has a plan for when they come to the polls.
