Carney at the Financial Street Forum in Beijing in October 2024
whilst the Hogue Inquiry was preparing to hear about PRC foreign interference Mark Carney, already an Economic Advisor to Trudeau, travelled to Beijing to meet with CCP-aligned financial big heads
“On the afternoon of October 20, Yin Yong, Mayor of Beijing, held separate meetings with Mark Carney, Chair of Brookfield Asset Management and Former Governor of the Bank of England, and Philipp Hildebrand, Vice Chairman of BlackRock and Former Chairman of the Governing Board of the Swiss National Bank. Both guests came to Beijing for the Annual Conference of Financial Street Forum 2024.” — People’s Government of Beijing press release
So, reader. Let’s talk about Carney’s trip to China in October, 2024.
A month after accepting the position as Chair of a Leader’s Task Force on Economic Growth, and four days before the Hogue Inquiry resumed its hearings in foreign interference—interviewing amongst other individuals and representatives of organizations the group Chinese Canadian Concern Group on The Chinese Communist Party—former Bank of England Governor Mark Carney, (at that time head of Brookfield Asset Management and Chairman of the Board of Directors of Bloomberg and also member of the BOD of Stripe), met with the mayor of Beijing.
Also around this a time, the Centre for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS-USA)1 published a report about the rapid proliferation of Chinese-owned and -operated applications (“apps”) such as TikTok and Temu.
Temu is collecting massive amounts of data from users who willingly download the app in pursuit of cut-rate prices. They are allowing Temu unparalleled access to not just their purchase history but also vastly more personal information and data-data Temu uses to refine its algorithms and push its products. These products are often in violation of existing U.S. law to prevent the Uyghur genocide and take advantage of loopholes to avoid paying duties. More ominously, the data Temu collects is unevenly secured and could be requisitioned by the CCP for intelligence and security purposes. — Diana Rinaldo, Looking Beyond TikTok: The Risks of Temu, (CSIS-USA), October 2024
Anyway. Back to Carney goes to Beijing.
During a panel discussion at the 2024 Financial Street Forum held in Beijing on Friday, experts shared insights on how China can better achieve its goals in the financial sector and the general economy, reported CGTN on October 20th, 2024. Carney rubbed shoulders with some big wigs in the Beijing financial world. According to Beijing’s own press release, during the high-level dialogue session, Zhou … Zhou Xiaochuan, Vice Chairman of Boao Forum for Asia, Vice Chairman of the 12th National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), and Former Governor of People’s Bank of China … engaged in discussions with Mark Carney, Chair of Brookfield Asset Management and Former Governor of Bank of England.
What’s the CPPCC, you ask?
The CPPCC has no policy making or governance powers, it exists as an entity that tries to unite non-communist party members and align them with CCP policy goals. According to The Diplomat, being a CPPCC National Committee member signals alignment with CCP interests. Below you can see a lovely photo I found on LinkedIn of some blokes having friendly social time the Financial Street Forum in Beijing. Note the bloke on the far left of the photo. That’s Mark Lussy, he’s an adjunct at the state-owned CCP-aligned Zhenjiang University International Business School (ZIBS) in Haining, branded Hi Academy for short by ZIBS. According to the ZIBS website, the training programs of Hi Academy also serve the training needs of CPC and Government official cadres nationwide.
So, reader, isn’t that nice? Look at these financial big heads at a Beijing financial forum, look at our man of the hour, Mark Carney — he’s positively radiant. Anyway, like I said, it’s all so lovely.
Reader, as you’re reading this, do keep in mind the scandal of the Chinese organizations in PQ which the RCMP investigated for ties to the PRC/CCP. Here’s a gift link, so you can get past the paywall to read the 2023 article, An intake form. A QR code. A surprising logo. Is this a new link between a Montreal group helping newcomers and the Chinese Communist Party? Yes, you read that date correctly, 2023.
Anyway. Moving on, like a herd of turtles.
Whilst Carney trotted around Beijing rubbing shoulders with global and China-based financial big heads, Neil Chantler was in Canada, slagging away, preparing for his PIFI testimony on behalf of Chinese Canadian Concern Group on The Chinese Communist Party. Here’s an excerpt of Chandler’s testimony, taken from the English transcript of the PIFI documents.
We should look at the overseas police stations as a case study of our ability to detect, deter and counter foreign interference. Were we able to detect these operations? It appears not. It took the report of an international NGO, likely years after the stations had been established. Have we effectively deterred and countered China's activity? Arguably not. Canada's response to these operations was largely diplomatic. Embassy promises to cease these activities were insincere. To date, there have been no arrests, no prosecutions, and no significant diplomatic penalties imposed on China resulting from this grave violation of our sovereignty. Will the situation be any different after Bill C-70? That may be optimistic. We already had laws that could have been used to prosecute these operations and China has shown a willingness to flaunt them. Have these activities merely shifted to other operations such as the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office in Toronto? Similar offices have been implicated in foreign interference efforts in other parts of the world, in the United States and in England, and we must ask ourselves, why have these activities led to arrests and prosecutions in the U.s. and England but not here in Canada? — Neil Chantler, counsel for Chinese Canadian Concern Group on The Chinese Communist Party, PIFI, Volume 39, pp 88-89
So, reader. Let’s recap.
A month after Carney agreed to take the position as head of Trudeau’s Advisory Council on Economic Growth, just days before the resumption of the Hogue Inquiry hearings into Chinese (and other hostile foreign entities) FI, and a month before Bloomberg announced the Chinese state-owned bank loan to Brookfield Asset Management (BAM), Carney visited Beijing to attend a Financial Street Forum conference and he had engaging discussions with financial big heads who just happen to have ties to or an alignment with the CCP.
“We are masters in our own home. We are in charge.” — Mark Carney, 14.3.2025
Make of it what you will, reader.
Ignore the poll, they’re mostly psyops anyway.
Ignore the Liberal Party of Canada-brainworm pundits.
Consider the facts on the ground. Consider that what your eyes see and your ears hear maybe doesn’t always align with what pollsters and pundits try to tell you is happening. It’s your brain, it’s your heart (the seat of desire and intentionality is the heart and not the brain BTW), it’s your country, and it’s your vote. Freedom is not a given, it is a value we must always strive to uphold and live by.
Think for yourself, reader.
has a piece out in the National Post today. Go read it.Kwan said none of this can be said to shore up Carney’s trustworthiness among pro-democracy Chinese-Canadians, and Beijing’s malign influence is far broader and deeper in Canada than is generally understood. “I keep telling everybody, look, you’re looking at more than just federal elections. It’s pervasive at every level of society, down to the election of trustees of school boards.” — Terry Glavin, 3.4.2025, National Post, Beware, Mark Carney's affection for authoritarian China
I’ll leave you with a short video compilation — Carney at a Toronto Region Board of Trade event, talking to Catherine Mckenna about the high yield benefits of investing in China, followed by a Chinese media clip of Carney talking to some Chinese media person about how he thinks China’s a great leader in climate change and green transition and also in AI, followed by a Chinese media clip of some pretty whack and brazen dumping into a body of water that looks like a river or a lake.
Ask yourself this — why would Trudeau choose to appoint as his economic advisor and leadership successor a man with such affection for and close ties to the CCP inner circle and the PRC itself? Knowing all that he did about the degree of FI, knowing about the Chinese Police Stations, the Chinese Family Services organisation in PQ believed to have ties to the CCP, knowing about the 11 parliamentarians working to advance the strategic political interests of hostile foreign entities, having access to all the intelligence briefings and reports about the degree of PRC FI, and the threat it poses to Canada — why would Trudeau choose Mark Carney?
Why would Trudeau choose Carney?
That’s a you question to ruminate upon. That’s a you question to answer for yourself. I can do my best to provide you with the stuff I find out from my OSINT tracking, and ultimately it rests with you, reader, to make your assessment about what is going on here. Like I said, reader, make of it as you will. Think. For. Yourself.
You have a choice. Choose wisely.
To avoid confusion between this private American non partisan organisation and the branch of Canadian government that shares the same acronym, Canadian Security and Intelligence Service, I have added “USA” to The Centre for Strategic and International Studies acronym. In my writing here, my convention will be as follows: CSIS refers to the Canadian entity and CSIS-USA refers to the American one.
Good stuff. But check Sam Cooper & the Bureau back issues. That was 11 China-influenced ridings in the GTA: Canada-wide, there were 50.