🇨🇦 NATO intern, China suspect, Canadian pipeline

A NATO intern is arrested in Belgium on suspicion of spying for China, and once again Canada shows up as the soft, gullible corridor through which hostile states stroll into Western institutions. The accused, Claire Zhang, is tied to Canada, which tells you everything about the Trudeau-era security culture: endless lectures about online hate, endless weakness on actual foreign penetration. As reported, this was serious enough for Belgian authorities to move, while Ottawa still prefers performative task forces and committee theater.

This is what post-national governance looks like in practice. Open-door ideology, elite credential worship, and zero instinct for national self-preservation. Our ruling class is obsessed with DEI optics and global networking, yet somehow shocked when adversarial regimes exploit the same borderless, trust-the-process machinery they built. Canada cannot remain a laundering pad for influence operations and still pretend to be a sovereign country. Security starts with loyalty, scrutiny, and an elite that serves Canada first instead of the global clubhouse.

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