陈国治声明

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STATEMENT FROM MICHAEL CHAN

As the current federal election campaign unfolds, I have been watching with a painful sense of déjà vu the Globe and Mail’s thinly disguised attempts to influence its outcome. Their recent coverage of Liberal candidate has become such a gaslighting exercise that even Prime Minister Mark Carney felt it necessary to say, “Ok, well, I'm sorry, but you can't believe everything you read in the Globe and Mail”.

Once again, using freedom of the press as a shield (and a sword), the Globe and Mail and Global News’ former employee, Sam Cooper, are employing the most underhanded tactics of insinuations and baseless, quasi-racist accusations of certain Chinese Canadian citizens as having too close connections with the Chinese government to assassinate their characters and permanently damage the reputations and careers of loyal Canadian citizens.*

I speak from experience as the victim of conspiratorial vicious attacks and dirty political games instigated by CSIS bad actors leaking fictitious and embellished intelligence information who our former Prime Minister himself condemned as criminals.

After 15 years of scrutiny and personally disturbing invasions of my privacy by CSIS, there has never been one shred of proof to justify the false innuendo against me that the Globe and Mail and Sam Cooper so vehemently reported as if they were truths. In fact, their persistent and heavy reliance on unnamed sources has made a mockery of the cornerstones of journalistic ethics.

In Commissioner Marie-Josée Hogue’s Final Report of the Public Inquiry into Foreign Interference, at which I willingly testified, she asserts that: “While allegations of interference involving elected officials have dominated public and media discourse, the reality is that misinformation and disinformation pose an even greater threat to democracy.”

Most troubling, Commissioner Hogue uncovered evidence where CSIS admitted their intelligence turned out to be completely erroneous, leading her to strongly caution that “intelligence must be used responsibly, taking into account its limitations, particularly when acting upon intelligence will have direct and significant impacts on an individual.”

These statements should alarm all Canadians, especially when it includes a media outlet like the Globe and Mail that purports to be one that “offers the most authoritative news in Canada”,but for some reason continues to repeatedly target members of Chinese Canadian descent who are simply seeking to raise the voice of their community and contribute to our representative democracy.

Canada is home to a uniquely diverse population who trace their origins to hundreds of countries and speak hundreds of languages. This vibrant diversity is especially advantageous in this moment of worldwide economic uncertainty, allowing us to leverage our people’s substantial and vast global ties to maximize new opportunities and reduce our US trade dependency.

Now more than ever, politicians of all ethnicities who are devoted to public service must be free to build relationships across the globe without fear of the media disinformation and misinformation from mere association.

As I did in March 2023, I am once again calling on the new Prime Minister from whichever party who will be duly elected on April 28 to take urgent and genuine action to expose the self-admitted unlawful CSIS leakers and bring them to justice. There must be a commensurate overhaul of CSIS’ substantial resources toward thwarting real rather than imagined threats to national security, and to do so in a manner that does not improperly implicate innocent parties.

Additionally, I urge our government to investigate the complicitous and self-serving relationship between CSIS and selected journalists that renders them criminally compliant pipelines for sensational disinformation. Government must reinforce that an important role of the free press is to educate and inform the public with honesty and integrity in the backdrop of the freedoms of expression for which the press has been bestowed.

Michael Chan

April 18, 2025

*Former MP and MPP Han Dong, Former MPP Vincent Ke, and Former MP Geng Tan

中文翻译

陈国治声明

随着当前联邦大选的推进，我带着一种痛苦的既视感，目睹《环球邮报》（Globe and Mail）几乎毫不掩饰地试图影响选举结果。他们最近对自由党候选人的报道，已经到了操控舆论、扭曲事实的地步，连马克·卡尼总理都不得不表示：“好吧，很抱歉，但你不能相信《环球邮报》上写的每一句话。”

《环球邮报》和环球新闻（Global News）的前雇员山姆·库珀（Sam Cooper）再次打着新闻自由的幌子（既当盾牌又当武器），用最卑劣的暗示和毫无根据、带有种族偏见的指控，抹黑一些加拿大华裔公民，声称他们与中国政府关系过密，企图诋毁他们的名誉，摧毁他们的职业生涯。

我对此深有体会，因为我就是这些政治阴谋与恶毒攻击的受害者。这些抹黑行为由加拿大安全情报局（CSIS）内部的不良分子发起，他们泄露虚构或夸大的情报，连我们的前任总理都曾谴责这些人为“犯罪者”。

过去15年来，CSIS 对我进行了种种调查，甚至侵入我私人生活，但他们从未找到任何证据来支持《环球邮报》和山姆·库珀对我进行的各种毫无根据的暗示。事实上，他们对匿名消息来源的高度依赖，已经彻底玷污了新闻伦理的基石。

在我自愿作证的「外国干预问题公众调查委员会」中，专员玛丽-乔塞·霍格（Marie-Josée Hogue）在最终报告中指出：“虽然涉及民选官员的干预指控主导了公众与媒体话语，但事实上，虚假信息和误导信息对民主构成的威胁更大。”

更令人担忧的是，霍格专员揭示，CSIS 曾承认他们的一些情报完全错误，因此她强烈警告：“情报的使用必须负责任，必须考虑其局限性，尤其是当该情报的使用将对个人产生直接而重大影响时。”

这些话对所有加拿大人都应敲响警钟，尤其是在《环球邮报》这种自诩为“加拿大最权威新闻机构”的媒体一再将矛头对准那些只是想为族群发声、为民主贡献力量的加拿大华裔人士。

加拿大是一个独一无二的多元社会，人民来自世界各地，语言多样、背景丰富。在全球经济不确定性上升的当下，我们更应善用这份多样性，通过我们人民在世界各地的紧密联系，开拓新机遇、降低对美贸易的依赖。

如今，所有有志为民服务的政治人物，无论族裔背景，都必须能自由地在全球范围内建立联系，而不该因与某方交往就被媒体散布的虚假信息所牵连和攻击。

正如我在2023年3月所呼吁的那样，我再次呼吁将在4月28日当选的新任总理（无论来自哪个党派），采取紧急且真诚的行动，揭露那些已经自承违法的 CSIS 泄密者，并将他们绳之以法。同时，加拿大安全情报局必须进行结构性改革，将大量资源集中于打击真实而非臆想中的国家安全威胁，并确保在执行过程中不无端牵连无辜。

此外，我也敦促政府彻查 CSIS 与特定记者之间的共谋式关系，这种关系使后者沦为制造耸动虚假信息的“合法渠道”，已涉嫌构成刑事共谋。政府必须重申：新闻自由的根本价值，在于媒体应以诚实与正直为本，为公众提供真实资讯，而非成为散布谣言的工具。

陈国治
2025年4月18日

*相关案例包括：前国会议员董晗鹏、前安省议员柯文彬、前国会议员谭耕。

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