本文发表在 rolia.net 枫下论坛新民主党国会议员邹至蕙大抨击'毫无根据的间谍故事'
香港出生的政治家敦促哈珀谴责加拿大安全情报局首领对外交施加影响
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发布时间星期四,2010年6月24日美国东部时间下午9时06分
最后更新于周四,2010年6月24日美国东部时间下午9时07分
国会议员邹至蕙抨击了本国的反间谍机构,因为他们声称外国代理人正在影响加拿大政客,并敦促总理哈珀谴责加拿大安全情报局首席理查德法登“毫无根据的”的罪名,以免损害国际关系。
“作为G20的领导人抵达加拿大,让我们不再屈服于加拿大安全情报局前任或现任官员兜售的政治恐吓”,香港出生的周女士告诉上周四仓促安排的多伦多记者招待会,也是本周末的峰会主办地点。
“毫无根据间谍故事属于和小说电影院”她补充说,法登先生的意见,央行周二播出的,“需要由加拿大总理谴责。”
法登先生,加拿大安全情报局负责人,引起了轰动,他提出外国代理人,可能是中国,已在加拿大的政治拴上控弦。他没有提到具体人,但说了两省政府官员中的内阁部长受到影响。
面对一片哗然,法登先生说,加拿大安全情报局食言说,并没有充分的有关报告的案件需要报告省政府或联邦政府的神经中枢-枢密院办公室。
周女士,多伦多市中心新民主党国会议员,也是新民主党领袖林顿的妻子说,加拿大人要求一个更全面解释。
“让所有当选的官员提供其名称和证据公开的文件,”她说。 “隐藏在暗处发表空泛陈述是有害的和破坏性的。”
问她是否认为加拿大安全情报局有她的档案,周女士说:“我不知道。如果有,让我们看到文件。“
总理办公室拒绝评论法登先生或周女士的发言。他说:“加拿大安全情报局主任澄清了他的意见,”发言人安德鲁麦克杜格尔说。
同时,项目办发表了一份声明星期四鼓吹哈珀先生与中国国家主席胡锦涛和双边讨论在渥太华,涉及旅游协议,环境,犯罪和牛肉出口到中国协议的签署。
多年来,加拿大安全情报局提出了关于中国在加拿大安插特工窃取机密,打压散居在加拿大社区中的政治异议人士的关注和影响。
2009年一书的合作由前加拿大安全情报局代理人称撰写的“中国游说组织”在加拿大,由间谍们的支持下,说服国会议员在2007年通过一项议案,敦促日本为暴行道歉第二次世界大战期间。周女士提出该议案,在下议院一致通过,尽管她的名字并没有在书里提到。
阿尔法协会(学习及维护二战亚洲历史),也没有在书里提到。因它起诉诽谤,赢得和解。该书重新发行有关段落删除了阿尔法协会名字。
阿尔法创始人王永平新闻发布会周女士站在侧旁,该机构在多伦多设有办事处。黄先生,香港出生的医生自1968年以来住在加拿大,说他对法登先生的初步意见“特别愤怒”。
“有一个自然的问题:如果没有确凿证据,为什么就开始指责?他是根据什么作出的指控?是对我们的皮肤颜色的基础上吗?“
黄先生说,阿尔法,这促进了加拿大的学校教学关于第二次世界大战对亚洲的影响,一直严格避免与中国政府的其他交易,除了安排加拿大教师到中国教育旅行。他呼吁其他国会议员和总理谈一谈加拿大安全情报局首领的话。
“毫无疑问,我们不会允许任何人置疑我们对这个国家的忠诚”黄先生说。
中国出生的加拿大和冉冉升起的明星在渥太华的公务员,如张海盐,几乎没有感觉到间谍的恐慌的冲击,直到她于2003年进入了核心-枢密院办公室。
张小姐被解雇,因为加拿大安全情报局的安全检查调查指出,作为新华社记者,她以前在开罗工作,为北京控制的新闻服务,她出席了在渥太华共同外交事务部和中国大使馆举行的招待会。
“加拿大安全情报局法登先生的指控中最困扰和令人不安的是,这种以偏概全的描述没有任何证据的事实”张小姐说。 “如果证实有间谍,他们应该被推翻,并被指控。正如美国的做法。如果没有,然后停止此类宣传,只有助于疏远我们,造成加拿大公民之间互不信任。“
NDP MP Olivia Chow slams ‘baseless spy stories’
Olivia Chow speaks at a G20 briefing in April in Toronto. Sarah Dea for The Globe and Mail
Hong Kong-born politician urges Harper to censure CSIS chief over foreign-influence claims
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From Friday's Globe and Mail
Published on Thursday, Jun. 24, 2010 9:06PM EDT
Last updated on Thursday, Jun. 24, 2010 9:07PM EDT
.MP Olivia Chow has lashed out at the country’s spy agency for claiming foreign agents are influencing Canadian politicians, and has urged Prime Minister Stephen Harper to denounce the “baseless” charges of CSIS chief Richard Fadden before they damage international relations.
“As the leaders of the G20 start arriving in Canada, let us not give in to the politics of fear being peddled by former or current CSIS officials,” the Hong Kong-born Ms. Chow told a hastily arranged news conference Thursday in Toronto, host of this weekend’s summit.
“Baseless spy stories belong in novels and movie theatres,” she said, adding Mr. Fadden’s comments, aired Tuesday by the CBC, “need to be condemned by the Prime Minister of Canada.”
Mr. Fadden, head of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, caused a furor when he suggested foreign agents, possibly Chinese, have been pulling strings in Canadian politics. He named no one, but said two provincial cabinet ministers were among officials under influence.
Facing an uproar, Mr. Fadden backtracked and said CSIS was not concerned enough to report the cases to provincial authorities or the federal government’s nerve centre, the Privy Council Office.
Ms. Chow, a New Democrat MP from downtown Toronto and wife of NDP Leader Jack Layton, said Canadians deserve a far fuller explanation.
“Make public the files on all elected officials, name names and give evidence,” she said. “Hiding in the shadows and making blanket statements is harmful and destructive.”
Asked if she thought CSIS had a file on her, Ms. Chow said, “I have no idea. If there is, let’s see the file.”
The Prime Minister’s Office declined to comment on Mr. Fadden’s claims or Ms. Chow’s statements. “The director of CSIS has clarified his comments,” spokesman Andrew MacDougall said.
Meanwhile, the PMO released a statement Thursday trumpeting bilateral discussions between Mr. Harper and Chinese President Hu Jintao in Ottawa, where agreements on tourism, the environment, crime and beef exports to China were signed.
For years, CSIS has raised concerns about China planting foreign operatives in Canada to clandestinely steal secrets, quell dissent in diaspora communities or influence politics.
A 2009 book co-authored by an ex-CSIS agent claimed a “Chinese lobbying organization” in Canada, backed by spies, had convinced MPs to pass a motion in 2007 urging Japan to apologize for atrocities during the Second World War. The motion, unanimously approved in the Commons, was brought forward by Ms. Chow, though she wasn’t named in the book.
The organization, ALPHA (Association for Learning and Preserving the History of WWII in Asia), was also not named, but it sued for libel and won a settlement. The book was reissued with the relevant passages removed.
Ms. Chow was flanked at the news conference by ALPHA founder Joseph Wong, at the agency’s Toronto offices. Mr. Wong, a Hong Kong-born physician who has lived in Canada since 1968, said he was “particularly incensed” when Mr. Fadden backed away from his initial comments.
“There’s a natural question: If there is no solid evidence, why the accusation in the very beginning? On what basis did he make the accusation? Is it on the basis of our skin colour?”
Mr. Wong said ALPHA, which promotes instruction in Canadian schools about the Second World War’s impacts in Asia, has scrupulously avoided dealings with the Chinese government other than to arrange educational trips to China for Canadian teachers. He called on other MPs and the Prime Minister to speak out on the CSIS chief’s remarks.
“There’s no question that we will not allow anyone to cast a doubt on our loyalties in this country,” Mr. Wong said.
Few have felt the brunt of the spy service’s fears like Haiyan Zhang, a Chinese-born Canadian and rising star in Ottawa’s civil service until she reached its core, the Privy Council Office, in 2003.
Ms. Zhang was fired after a CSIS security-screening investigation cited her previous work in Cairo as a journalist for Xinhua, the Beijing-controlled news service, and her attendance at receptions in Ottawa co-hosted by the Foreign Affairs department and the Chinese embassy.
“What is most disturbing about this CSIS allegation [by Mr. Fadden] is that such sweeping statements are accepted as facts without any evidence being presented,” Ms. Zhang said. “If there are proven spies, they should be ousted and charged as they do in the United States. If not, then stop such propaganda which only helps to alienate us and create distrust among all Canadian citizens.”更多精彩文章及讨论,请光临枫下论坛 rolia.net