Liberals replace the candidate who is involved in the election mixture with a board member of the school board of the Canada's Wahl interference request

Sam Cooper

The retired deputy head of Toronto, Peter Yuen, who joined a Chinese international school in Markham last year, was elected to testify for foreign interference in a neighboring ride in 2019, was appointed the new liberal candidate in Markham -unionville. He replaces Paul Chiang, who resigned in controversial remarks in an RCMP check last week and indicates that a conservative opponent could be handed over to Chinese officials for a premium.

The appointment places Yuen – now a central personality in the campaign of Prime Minister Mark Carney – at the center of a riding that has already been examined in Canadian -developing international interference examinations.

Paul Chiang, a former police officer of Markham, who won the long-standing conservative representative Bob Saroya against Markham-Unionville for Team Trudeau, resigned as a liberal candidate after the RCMP confirmed that it checked in January 2025 to check the comments. Law – could be brought to the Chinese consulate in Toronto to claim a premium.

When choosing another Chinese Canadian police veteranes, the liberals seem to be ready to calm the diaspora voters who rattles through Chiang's exit. Yuen, who immigrated from Hong Kong in 1975 and, before retirement in 2022, retired the police in Toronto in Toronto in Toronto, brings profound connections to the Hong Kong diaspora and the Chinese community of the mainland in Markham, which may be upset.

Videos and a report on the Toronto Chinese Consulate website show that Peter Yuen took part in a gala in 2018 that was organized by the Confederation of the Chinese Canadian organizations in Toronto – a collaboration with direct relationships with the Chinese consulate and the United Front Department in the United Front in Beijing. During the event, in which comments from the Chinese Consul of Consul from Toronto to Yuen and other Canadian politicians, Yuen stood alongside a prominent Markham Community leader who was known for participating in high-ranking meetings of the United Front in Beijing with President Xi Jinping, and sang the patriotic song My Chinese heart.

In August 2024, Peter Yuen joined the board of the NOIC Academy in Markham, an educational institution that was examined during Ottawa's foreign interference. CBC News and The Globe and Mail In April 2024 reported that the testimony to the Hogue Commission -checked with the investigation of foreign interference in the national elections in 2019 -that the CSIs had marked irregularities with the students of the NOIC Academy in neighboring Don Valley North riding.

Accordingly The globeAllegations connected to NOIC appeared in a sued summary of the CSIS intelligence services published during the examination. “The secret services reported after the election showed that the (People's Republic of China) consulate for the Chinese international students was issued veiled threats,” says the summary. The intelligence also suggested that “their student visa would be in danger and that it could attribute consequences for their families in the VR China” if they did not vote for a certain Don Valley North candidate.

In Don Valley North, the neighbor Markham -unionville, Joe Tay knows Conservative Party in this election for Pierre Poilievres.

Noic announced the appointment of Yuen in a statement in August 2024 and wrote: “The former deputy head of the police service in Toronto only joined the management team of the NOIC Academy last week.” The school added: “Before Peter joined, the advisory committee from NOIC consisted of” Literati “(educator), but this time a” general “was initiated.”

The academy, which teaches international students from China, further emphasized Yuen's leadership background: “The deputy Yuen was responsible for the security command of the community that offers proactive and reactive services and programs for public security in cooperation with various municipalities and important interest groups.”

Joe Tay, a former broadcaster in Hong Kong, whose independent reporting from Canada pulled retaliatory measures from Beijing, gave a statement last week in which Paul Chiang's sorry for the head of the head was rejected, and called her “the trade of the Chinese of the Communist Party”. He added: “They not only aim at me; they should send a terrifying signal to the entire community in order to force the political goals of Beijing.”

His concerns were repeated by dozens of NGOs and human rights organizations, who condemned Chiang's comments as confirmation of transnational repression.

Even after Chiang's resignation, Prime Minister Mark Carney became a renewed examination of expression in him just a few hours before the RCMP announced his investigation. Carney characterized the controversy as a “taught moment” – an attitude that produced sharp criticism.

The Durham Regional Police Association, which represented civil servants in one of the three Ontario forces in which Chiang served, gave a statement in which Carney's actions were condemned. “We are disappointed with the clear lack of integrity and leadership of Mark Carney, who is more of such outrageous actions for these candidates,” the association wrote and added that Chiang's behavior “is kept in an ontario a higher standard”.

The group also rejected Carney's defense in Chiang's law enforcement background: “The fact that Mr. Carney Chiang's police career used police career as a shield for his actions undermines the great work that our heroes do in their communities every day.”

Chiang's resignation and Yuen's sudden survey now puts the spotlight on Markham -Unionville and set the stage for one of the closest races in the upcoming elections.

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