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Michael Chong 🇨🇦 Profile picture
@MichaelChongMP
Mar 29 • 3 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
PMs are appointed, not elected, in a Westminster system: They’re accountable to the elected legislature (Carney wasn’t elected on 25/3/14).

If Carney doesn’t attend Parliament it’s not possible for us, the elected House, to hold him accountable.


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For example, I’d like to ask him:

“Mr. Speaker,

Simple question. A non-answer will be taken as a ‘no’.

Did the Prime Minister proactively raise the issue of human rights with his PRC counterparts during his recent visit?”

But I can’t b/c he’s not there very often.

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Another one:

“Mr. Speaker,

The Prime Minister’s readout states he ‘emphasised the importance of ongoing parliamentary exchanges’ during his recent trip to the PRC.

We’re now in a ridiculous situation where the foreign affairs committee and its members, which are under PRC sanctions, have been formally asked to invite and host their PRC counterparts, the PRC’s foreign affairs committee.

Why did the PM not insist on reciprocity when he agreed to parliamentary exchanges, unlike the UK and the EU?”

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Mar 30
1/ Globe and Mail:

“[Carney] said Canada has strong measures in place to stop goods made with forced labour from entering Canada.”

That is not true.

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2/ Globe and Mail:

“In recent years, Canada has intercepted only two shipments of imports on the grounds these were made with forced labour …”

Two shipments. Two.

The U.S. has intercepted thousands of shipments of imports made with forced labour.

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3/ The U.S. has seized over 3,375 shipments (as of late 2024), produced with suspected forced labour.

3,375 shipments. 3,375.

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Mar 28
1/ I hope Liberals sleep well after PM Carney’s $1,775-a-head fundraiser co-hosted by MP Michael Ma at Angus Glen Golf Club in Markham this Monday.

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Mar 25, 2025
1/ Today’s Globe story is a retelling of previously aired allegations - with new info that Mr. Poilievre’s leadership campaign was targeted.

As someone who’s been targeted by foreign interference, I’d like to give my perspective.

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2/ Mr. Poilievre won the 2022 Conservative leadership, fair & square, by attracting hundreds of thousands of Canadians of all backgrounds to the Conservative Party - many for the first time.

His campaign followed all the rules & overwhelmingly won the race with 70.7%

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3/ Hundreds of thousands of Canadians joined to vote in that race. Every one of them paid to join with a,

- personal credit card,
- personal cheque, or
- similar traceable payment method.

Membership applications with untraceable payments attached were declined.

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Feb 26, 2025
1/ Mark Carney, as chair of Brookfield Asset Management, led the decision to move this Canadian company to the U.S.

This happened just 3 months ago.

Below is his letter urging shareholders to approve the move.

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2/ This is a real loss for Canada.

Brookfield Asset Management is part of the Brookfield group of companies, one of the crown jewels of Canadian business.

Brookfield employs tens of thousands of Canadians in a range of businesses like real estate & infrastructure.

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3/ As David Milstead wrote,

“… what if this move augurs a wholesale flight south of the border by the Brookfield companies – like a flock of geese in the wintertime, except they wouldn’t return? It could happen, leaving Canada out in the cold.”

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May 3, 2024
1/ PM Trudeau on April 11, 2024, when asked if PRC foreign interference impacted the results in any of the 338 electoral districts in the 2019 or 2021 elections:

"So when our panel of 5 came to the conclusion in the 2019 election, and in the 2021 election, that the election was free and fair, it wasn't simply an overall the election was free and fair, because of course, in Canada, the election isn't one election. It's actually 338 distinct elections that form our government and our parliament. So the fact that the panel of 5 can weigh in and watch closely on riding level elections as well, is why they have confidence that the election, in both its large sense, but also in its specific sense, that every single constituency election was determined by Canadians, and the election integrity held and it was free and fair."

(Bold added for emphasis)

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2/ Commissioner Hogue on May 3, 2024 regarding Han Dong's nomination and the subsequent 2019 election in Don Valley North, where Liberal candidate Han Dong won:

"Available intelligence respecting the 2019 Liberal nomination contest DVN reflects a well-grounded suspicion that the busing of international students was tied to the PRC. Given that DVN was considered a “safe” Liberal seat, this would likely not have impacted which party won the seat. It could, however, have impacted who was elected to Parliament. This is significant."
- p. 28, Initial Report

(Bold added for emphasis)

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3/ Commissioner Hogue on May 3, 2024 regarding the 2021 election in Steveston-Richmond East, where Conservative candidate Kenny Chiu lost:

"Although no definitive link between these false narratives and the PRC has been proven, there are strong indicators of PRC involvement and there is a reasonable possibility that these narratives could have impacted the result in this riding ."
- p. 28, Initial Report

(Bold added for emphasis)

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1/ Conservatives support Ukraine as Ukrainians defend their country from Vladimir Putin’s illegal invasion.

The Conservative Party has a strong record of supporting Ukraine.

This strong support will continue under a Poilievre government.

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2/ Actions speak louder than words.

Here is the Conservative record on Ukraine.

It was a Conservative government, on Dec. 2, 1991, that was the first Western country to recognize Ukraine's independence.

Hon. Barbara McDougall signed for the Government of Canada.

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3/ It was a Conservative government that negotiated the first Canada-Ukraine free deal under Prime Minister Stephen Harper.

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