陈国治就环球邮报近期报道发表声明

【编者注】下面是约克区议员、万锦市副市长陈国治的来稿选登。

陈国治就环球邮报近期报道发表声明

在过去一周，《环球邮报》（The Globe and Mail）继续对我进行毫无根据的指控、含沙射影和谎言攻击，一如其过去多年的做法。不公正、不负责任的报道，不仅给我带来了难以想象的伤害，还严重影响了我的家人和朋友。

在其最近的文章中，《环球邮报》的报道依赖至今仍未确认身份之CSIS的胡作非为“消息来源”。《环邮》自己也承认，这篇叙事创建在违反加拿大联邦法律的基础上，这恰恰说明了问题。鉴于《环邮》通过使用不准确、受污染、当然还有非法获得的所谓“情报”来默许此类活动，这样违反法律的报道尤其令人担忧。《环球邮报》的选择性报道，以及完全未能公正、准确地报道事情真相的做法，加剧了这种明知故犯地参与助长这些犯罪行为的情况。

CSIS渗透到我作为普通公民的生活（并在此过程中玷污了我家的神圣性），撇开CSIS对我和我家人的公然侵犯不谈，一个没有得到解答或被忽视的明显问题是：CSIS十四年监控活动的结果是什么。 他们发现了什么？ 我做错了什么？ 奇怪的是，这些问题的明确答案至今未得到解决，也未在任何报告中提及。

通过所有这些无数的“调查”、数百篇新闻报道、数百万次的社交媒体传播，什么都没有找到，也没有拿出一丝证据表明我做了任何不当的事情。 此外，去年夏天，我在霍格委员会自愿前往、宣誓作证，并接受了委员会律师、我的政治对手以及 CSIS 本身的交叉盘问，这些都没有被报导。

相反，最近的文章渲染了CSIS 员工试图对我进行窃听、以及他们在获得窃听搜查令时所曾经遇到的挑战，他们获取搜查令的理由是认为我策动了免除前国会议员谭耕（Geng Tan）、以支持国会议员董晗鹏（Han Dong）作为Don Valley North选区自由党候选人，而这似乎可以用来证明并反复传诵某种推理故事，给人以印象我曾经/现在是中国政府的“代理人”。

然而正如去年戴维·约翰斯顿（David Johnston）阁下的报告所阐明、以及今年早些时候多位政府官员的证词中所证实的那样，人们早已知道的是：取消谭耕先生作为候选人的是联邦自由党，没有我的任何参与。董晗鹏议员在证词中证实了此事，我在证词中也证实了此事。

CSIS如果有任何与谭耕先生有关的担忧，他们几年前就可以很容易地从政府或从我这里得到直接的真相。 然而他们却没有这样做，而是让虚假证据堂而皇之摆上台面以获取窃听，然后这个基于 CSIS腐败（和恶意）的“泄密者”的窃听故事出现在这篇疯狂的文章中。

同样令人痛心的是，CSIS 作为一个公立机构，允许其特工与有问题的人合谋，向公共领域炮制不可靠的泄露（且不断泄露）“情报”，让该机构沦为特殊利益图谋和党派斗争政治的工具。 由于没有采取任何措施来阻止已被证实之谎言的传播，而且尽管政府有指示，却未能找到泄密者，CSIS 的能力也必须受到质疑。

归根结底，我们所知道的是：一些（匿名的）CSIS 官员已经并在继续违反法律，并且有许多实体（包括 环邮）知道并参与了这种犯罪行为。 这是真正的丑闻......为此，我呼吁政府启动对 CSIS 的能力展开调查。 我呼吁适当的执法机构调查违反《信息安全法》的行为，包括调查那些故意接受并使用非法获取之信息的人；并在法律允许的最大范围内起诉所有此类实体。

The Globe and Mail this past week has continued its ongoing barrage of endless baseless accusations, innuendos and lies made against me as it has for many years. The failure to report in a fair and responsible manner has not only hurt me in unimaginable ways, it has gravely impacted my family and friends.

In its most recent article, the Globe relies on still unidentified rogue CSIS “sources” for its story. As demonstrated by the Globe’s own admission that the story is founded on a violation of federal Canadian law, this law breaking reporting is especially concerning given how the Globe has acquiesced to such activity by utilizing inaccurate, tainted, and of course, illegally obtained “intelligence”. Such knowing participation in furtherance of these criminal acts has been exacerbated by the Globe’s selective reporting and outright failure to fairly and accurately report on the truth of the matter.

Leaving aside CSIS’s outright abuses committed against me and my family in its infiltration of my life as a private citizen (and defiling the sanctity of my home in the process), the obvious question that remains unanswered, or has simply been ignored, is the result of the 14 years of surveillance activities by CSIS. What did they find? What have I done wrong? The clear answer to these questions, strangely have not been addressed, nor mentioned in any reporting.

With all of these countless “investigations”, hundreds of press reports, millions of social media circulations, NOTHING has been found and neither has ONE SHRED of evidence that I had done anything improper been produced. Moreover, after I testified voluntarily and under oath at the Hogue Commission this past summer and opened myself up to cross-examination by Commission counsel, my political adversaries and CSIS itself, none of this was reported on either.

Rather, the recent article highlights CSIS employees who sought to wiretap me and the challenges they had to get a warrant, which was obtained on the basis that I engineered the removal of former MP Geng Tan, in favor of MP Han Dong as the Liberal candidate in Don Valley North, and that this somehow proved and perpetuated the narrative to give the impression that I was/am an “agent” of the Chinese government.

As has been known since the Report of the Right Honourable David Johnston last year – and confirmed by government officials in testimony earlier this year – Mr. Tan was removed by the Liberal party of Canada as a candidate without any involvement by me. MP Dong testified to this, and I testified to this as well.

If there were any concerns relating to Mr. Tan, CSIS could have easily gotten the straight truth from the government or me years ago. Instead, false evidence was filed to get a wiretap, and then this story of the wiretap based on the corrupted (and maliciousness) CSIS “leakers” shows up in this crazy article.

Just as painful is CSIS as an organization allowing itself to become a tool of special interest agendas and partisan politics by permitting its agents to conspire with compromised individuals to produce unreliable leaked (and continuously leaked) “intelligence” into the public sphere. By not doing anything to stop the dissemination of proven lies, and also failing to find the leakers despite a government directive to do so, the competence of CSIS must too be called into question.

At the end of the day, what we know is this: some (anonymous) CSIS officials have and continue to break the law, and there are many actors (including the Globe) who are aware and have participated in this criminality. This is the real scandal … and to this end, I would call on the government to start an inquiry into the competency of CSIS. I would call on the appropriate law enforcement agencies to look into the breaches of the Security of Information Act, including those who have knowingly accepted and used illegally obtained information; and to prosecute all such entities to the full extent of the law.