Ottawa has fallen. We're next.

Three months ago, I warned about “the serious risk of state capture by Beijing in our northern neighbor and closest ally,” urging Americans to pay attention to disturbing things going on in Canada regarding Chinese Communist Party espionage and illicit influence. We had proof that PRC spies directly interfered in Canada’s 2019 federal elections, including the clandestine funding of at least 11 candidates for Parliament. Worse, the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, Ottawa’s domestic intelligence agency, had briefed Prime Minister Justin Trudeau about this threat, yet he had done nothing to stop or mitigate it. …

As usual, the Washington press corps didn’t pay much attention to this important matter. Now, three months have passed, and it turns out I was insufficiently alarmist and unduly optimistic. The situation in Canada regarding Beijing’s espionage and political influence is worse than it looked late last year. CCP interference in Canada’s 2021 federal election was even more serious than in 2019. Based on leaks of Top Secret CSIS reports, it’s now clear that Chinese intelligence successfully interfered in Canada’s 2021 election, helping to engineer a Liberal minority government while keeping China hawks away from power in Ottawa. The Globe and Mail, Canada’s biggest circulation daily newspaper, has run a series of detailed reports in recent days that reveals what CSIS knew in real time (or close) about CCP interference in the 2021 election.

[Be sure to read it all. The American media turned into McCarthyist hysterics over Russia’s Merry Pranksterism in 2016, but they’re missing the real thing in China. — Ed]