Despite years of Beijing’s efforts to expand its influence in Canada, the country has yet to fully recognize or counter the threat the communist regime poses to its future, according to a former RCMP officer.
Garry Clement, former national director for the RCMP’s Proceeds of Crime program, has been investigating transnational crime for decades. He describes the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) as the “biggest transnational organized crime group in the world,” and says that despite growing evidence of its operatives, many in positions of authority in Canada appear unwilling to acknowledge the threat or take action.
“Because we are such a kind and gentle country, we dismiss it and allow it to go, but it’s going to come back and bite us,” Clement told The Epoch Times in a recent interview, citing as an example China’s use of international students to steal intellectual property from other countries or to conduct sensitive research clandestinely using North American facilities….