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Carney says he had never heard of pro-Beijing group despite photos with its leaders
Photos on the group’s website show Carney with executives of the organization as the Liberal Leader says there was no prearranged meeting
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Carney says he had never heard of pro-Beijing group despite photos with its leaders
ROBERT FIFEOTTAWA BUREAU CHIEFSTEVEN CHASESENIOR PARLIAMENTARY REPORTER
PUBLISHED 2 HOURS AGOUPDATED 50 MINUTES AGO
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Liberal Leader Mark Carney makes an announcement at Sheridan College in Brampton, Ont., on Thursday, April 10, 2025.SEAN KILPATRICK/THE CANADIAN PRESS
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Liberal Leader Mark Carney says he had never heard of a pro-Beijing lobby group in the Toronto area despite photos on the Jiangsu Commerce Council of Canada’s website showing him with members of its leadership.
He was asked Thursday about Peter Yuen, the Liberal Party candidate for the Ontario riding of Markham-Unionville. Mr. Yuen was appointed to replace Paul Chiang, who stepped down after news broke that he had talked to reporters about how someone could take a Conservative candidate and human-rights advocate to the Chinese consulate to claim a bounty put on him by Hong Kong authorities.
As The Globe and Mail reported Thursday, Mr. Yuen is an honorary director of the Jiangsu Commerce Council of Canada (JCCC), which lobbies for closer ties with China and echoes Chinese government narratives. The Toronto-headquartered organization was founded in 2002 and has ties to China’s United Front Work Department. The UFWD answers to the ruling Chinese Communist Party’s central committee and oversees Beijing’s influence, propaganda and intelligence operations inside and outside of China.
Mr. Yuen has also given talks at events honouring a Toronto group that advocates for the annexation of Taiwan by China.
The Globe reported Thursday that during the Liberal leadership race, Mr. Carney met with the executives of the JCCC, according to its website, which described the former central banker’s entry into politics as “an important turning point in the upgrading of China-Canada relations.”
The Jiangsu council says on its website that “in an in-depth exchange” with two of its leaders, Mr. Carney “highly praised the pioneering role of the Chinese business community in emerging fields such as clean technology, digital trade and financial technology.”
Mr. Carney told a Thursday news conference on the campaign trail that he was unaware of this group. “I’ve never heard of this group,” he told reporters. “I didn’t have a setup meeting with this group. Full stop,” he said.
The Globe, however, had not reported that he had a prearranged meeting but only that he met executives. Photos on the group’s website show Mr. Carney with Xu Xiaoguang, president of the JCCC, which is also known in Chinese as the Jiangsu International Chamber of Commerce in Canada, and another with Jiang Rui, honorary president of the organization.
The Liberal Leader said he encounters thousands of people. “I go to events where there are hundreds and thousands, you know, thousands, over the course of a day, of different people there. That is not a meeting. If somebody happens to be in the room takes a picture with me, that’s not a meeting, okay?”
Liberal Party spokesperson Isabella Orozco-Madison said the JCCC inaccurately portrayed their executive members’ discussions with Mr. Carney as in-depth.
“We have reached out to the organization correcting the record and asked that they remove such claims immediately,” she said in a statement.
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Jiang Rui, honorary president of JCCC, meets with Prime Minister Mark Carney.SUPPLIED
Foreign interference has been a significant topic in this federal election campaign, including this week when Ottawa’s election-interference watchdog announced that it had detected an information operation from Beijing aimed at shaping public opinion among Chinese-Canadians about Mr. Carney.
Mr. Yuen appears to have a strong relationship with China’s diplomatic mission in Toronto. In 2014, the consulate held an event to mark his promotion to Toronto police superintendent. He has attended consulate celebrations, including one in January, 2020, that included a photo display on Xinjiang province that did not acknowledge Beijing’s brutal treatment of its Muslim Uyghur minority there. Canada’s Parliament adopted a motion in 2021 that declared China’s treatment of its Uyghurs a genocide.
The former police officer has also spoken at and attended events of the Toronto branch of Chinese Freemasons, which has advocated for what it calls the “peaceful reunification of China and Taiwan,” a phrase rejected by the Taiwanese government, which contends that only the self-governing island can decide its own future. Ottawa’s position is that it opposes the use of coercion or force to unilaterally change the status quo of Taiwan.
As of Thursday, the new Liberal candidate was still listed as honorary director of the JCCC on its website. Mr. Yuen said in a statement Wednesday that his role with the JCCC ended a decade ago. He declined to answer e-mailed questions from The Globe on whether he supports Taiwan’s self-determination, condemns China’s crimes against its Uyghur minority or disapproves of UFWD activities.
Instead, he pointed to his career with the Toronto Police as his qualification to seek election to Parliament.
“I have built a great career committed to public service and have a track record of maintaining the health, safety and well-being of those in our community as Toronto’s former Deputy Police Chief. I’m ready to build a stronger community for the people of Markham-Unionville,” he said in an e-mailed response that was sent by the Liberal Party.
Ms. Orozco-Madison has said that Mr. Yuen went through “a robust” vetting process by the party’s Green Light Committee before Mr. Carney named him the candidate to replace Mr. Chiang.
In December, 2021, Mr. Jiang, then-JCCC president, travelled to Nanjing and met Li Guohua, an executive deputy director of the UFWD. A year later, Mr. Jiang and another colleague participated in the Central Conference of the UFWD in Beijing, attended by Chinese President Xi Jinping. The Department of Public Safety in Canada says the UFWD attempts to “stifle criticism, infiltrate foreign political parties, diaspora communities, universities and multinational corporations.”
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Xu Xiaoguang, president of the JCCC, meets with Prime Minister Mark Carney.SUPPLIED
The JCCC’s stated aim is to promote trade, business co-operation and “friendly relations” between Ontario and the Chinese province of Jiangsu and between Canada and China. Statements and actions by the JCCC echo narratives pushed by Beijing that, according to Human Rights Watch, has deepened repression of its citizens under Mr. Xi’s rule.
Justice Marie-Josée Hogue’s 2024 public inquiry into foreign meddling identified China as the “most active perpetrator of foreign interference” – one that uses “proxies, individuals or organizations, taking explicit or implicit directions” from Beijing.
“It supports those it believes helpful to its interests at the time, and those it believes are likely to have power, no matter their political party,” Justice Hogue said.
When Mr. Jiang spoke at a UFWD event in China in 2019, he called for spreading the Belt and Road initiative into North America. China is pouring US$1-trillion into building railways, ports and pipelines around the world in what many experts regard as a state-directed effort to bolster its political influence and extend its military reach from Asia to Africa.
Critics in the West have accused China of ensnaring developing countries by offering them immense loans for questionable infrastructure projects that the countries will struggle to repay.
