Central figures promoting the China interference scandal are funded by the US. One of the most quoted individuals decrying Chinese interference in Canada, Mehmet Tohti, has worked for various US-sponsored Uyghur groups, notably the Uyghur Rights Advocacy Project (URAP), which was funded by the US’ National Endowment Fund for Democracy for their “advocacy” in Canada. Tohti’s URAP also played an important role in pushing Parliament to adopt a resolution calling China’s treatment of Uygurs a genocide, which pushed the Trudeau government towards more conflictual relations with Beijing.
This doesn’t sound like a bad thing to me? The article seems to indicate this is proof that US funding got the Canadian government to do something bad, but it sounds like quite the opposite, unless I’m misunderstanding…
I went looking for coverage of this from the big news media and didn't find a whole lot.
When the best the CBC can do is one brief mention that civil liberties groups had "several issues with the bill" right at the end of a lightweight report that mostly stresses how urgent it is to combat foreign interference, many Canadians will resort to trashy "news" sites like The Canada Files which from the looks of some of the things it publishes has a pretty high probability of itself being a foreign disinformation campaign.
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