Glavin: China's election meddling — Here's the report David Johnston should have written

As for Johnston, he has spent a half-century as an enthusiast of Canada’s descent into Beijing’s sphere of influence — championing academic collaborations, making numerous visits to China and wishing that all Canadians spoke Chinese. His own Rideau Hall Foundation board is a snapshot who’s-who of Beijing-friendly establishment figures in Canada.

The rise of Beijing’s politburo-level United Front Work Department, which operates with a budget that exceeds China’s foreign affairs ministry, is devoted to subverting and influencing Canadian institutions and policing overseas Chinese communities. “The long-established United Front networks in Canada are operating with increasing sophistication and aggression,” the Murky Waters report finds.

“Some proxy actors may go on to engage in lobbying activities to advocate on their business clients’ behalf, who are doing Beijing’s bidding.” Johnston’s willing conscription into the coverup — it’s unfortunate that there isn’t a suitable, less-incendiary word for it — is now the primary barricade against the public’s right to know anything about the breadth and scope of Beijing’s reach into the circles of power that ring the Trudeau government. That’s why the Murky Waters report is so valuable.

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