🇨🇦 NATO intern, Ottawa asleep at the gate

A Canadian intern accused of espionage got through security clearance for NATO, after also working at the Canadian Space Agency and Statistics Canada. That is not a glitch. That is the Trudeau-Carney state in one neat little package: obsessed with optics, allergic to scrutiny, and somehow shocked that basic national security might matter. MPs now promise hearings and Gary Anandasangaree will be hauled in to perform concern, as reported.

Biwei Zhang, also using Claire Zhang professionally and Catina Zhang on Facebook, allegedly passed screening handled by CSIS and the RCMP for a post at SHAPE in Mons. Belgian authorities moved first, while Ottawa did what Ottawa does best: issue lines about getting to the bottom of it after the bottom already fell out. This is what hollowed-out sovereignty looks like. A political class that lectures Canadians about online harms and wrongthink cannot even secure allied institutions from infiltration. The regime is vigilant only when the target is its own citizens.

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