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Chinese billionaires, gangsters, and spies have been influencing Canadian real estate for ages
Remember when the RCMP and CSIS accused the Chinese government of purchasing real estate in Canadian urban centers as a method of threatening Canada? No? That’s because the recommendations from a former classified program called Sidewinder was abandoned. All documents were ordered destroyed, and buried in 1997 by the Liberal government. Turns out we were as anxious to build ties with China then as we are now. Despite our national spy services advising the government that, well…this would happen to real estate. In a report titled Chinese Intelligence Services and Triads Financial Links in Canada, an RCMP-CSIS ... (full story)