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Patience is a virtue not used by most colonists.

Too often writers are consumed by the emergency here and now. As a result, they fail to look back and take the time and space on important topics that have ever caught their critical eye.

The other, more width and much more important failure of journalists and news organizations – big and small – for which they work is the stubborn refusal to make honest and tangible repair of the damage that caused people – known and unknown – from their reporting , which turns out to be defective and wrong.

Almost two years ago I wrote a number of columns Warning that a racist hysteria is engaging Canada. McCartism -reduced rage challenged the loyalty of the initiates police officersPrevious General Governor of Canada, as well as Chinese-Canadian citizens, including parliamentarians.

This deeply corrosive, “yellow-peryl” furore, was largely chosen by a handful of hand-handing reporters working with a hand for very comfortable gloves that still serve or retired.

The fungus of spies who provided fragments of cut “intelligence” of gullible scribes made wicked accusations for entire ethnic communities and several prominent figures that were obliged, of course, to plead their innocence publicly in draining emotional and financial costs until their Cheshire, while their Cheshir-kat-like prosecutors remained in the pleasant shadows-beautiful salaries and pensions intact.

For two years, the hyperbolic work of this connection from neat spies and trusting reporters has dominated the political and media landscape of Canada.

The spito of stories It is alleged among other malicious escapades that parliament had a nest of “traitors” who appointed with foreign forces to undermine Canadian democracy; Liberal Member of Parliament (MP) of Chinese origin thwarted diplomatic attempts to release two Canadians closed in China on suspicion of spying; Beijing also conducted a huge political intervention campaign to change the result of at least two federal elections.

Without breathtaking maintenance and state treason, they were taken from other media, eager not to be left behind and giving an extended life and legitimacy of many columnists who know a little about anything about Subterranean's espionage, the pedestrian types that fill it, Or how “intelligence” is collected and can be shaped to create the illusion of credibility.

At the end of January, Commissioner Marie-Josie Hog-who is heading an investigation caused by sensational reports- released Her findings after hearing by dozens of witnesses and review of thousands of classified documents for 15 months.

The Commissioner's Conclusion Constitute a Damning Indictment of the Reporters and Major Domestic News Outlets Who Owht to Have Treated Their Covered Ir Self -agrandising Interpretation and Use of Selective Secrets to Pursue Personal programs at the expense of the reputation of the respected Canadians and the public interest.

Houg has a categorical rebuttal to any major statement served by Globe and Post Office-the Samo-defined “national” newspaper of Canada-and a national operator on the second level, Global News.

The Commissioner “did not find evidence” of “traitors” lurking in parliament, nor that democratic institutions in Canada were swinging or “seriously affected” by any “intervention”.

“I found no evidence that the elections were tied by a foreign actor,” she writes.

Houg added that there may have been “attempts to overcome the favor of parliamentarians … (but) the phenomenon remains extremely and to a great extent ineffective.”

“There is no reason,” she said, “For a widespread alarm.”

This Alarm is raised from the front page and the best politicians and reporters who, along with them S

Hoogian actually writes that the alleged threat was “overworked”.

For her merit, the commissioner wiped a tangible spot, which liberal MP Han Dong has endured with grace and is challenged with an uncompromising determination to clear his good name.

She rejected the dubious, thinly equipped stories accusing Dong that he had contacted Chinese diplomats with the intention of stopping the release of two Canadians – Michael Kovig and Michael Spavor – charged with spying by the People's Republic (PRC) – as an unequivocally false.

“Classified information confirms the refusal of G -n Dong,” she writes, “from the claim that he proposed the PRC to refuse to publish G -n -Kovig and G -N -Spavor.” suggests that the PRC prolongs its detention. “

The Commissioner has condemned the severe, lasting harm, which can be caused by spies, trafficking in “unverified intelligence” with easily convinced reporters.

“Examples like these show why it would be completely unfair to rely on unprovable intelligence in order to label publicly to mark an individual parliamentary of a traitor,” Hoog writes. “This would have a deep influence on the individual who cannot be justified in the light of weak people.”

In a press message, Dong requested “Quite right -” global news … withdraw their false stories to me and apologize for the harm they have caused. “

To date, as far as I know, the global news has not withdrawn the stories, nor have they apologized.

This is shameful.

Hog confirmed the thrust of my testimony to various committees of the House of Municipalities in the spring of 2023, where I warn Parliamentarians to treat “revelations” cautiously, since “intelligence” is far from proof.

In this critical respect, the Commissioner warned of the “inherent restrictions”, incompleteness and insufficiency of “intelligence”.

“Just because intelligence says that something doesn't make it true, accurate or complete,” Hoog writes. “The credibility of sources can also be a problem. Sources can, for example, deliberately mislead their audience. “

The volumetric report of the Quebec Court of Appeal reflected the syllable of David Johnston's sentence, a single general governor of Canada, who was appointed “Special Rapporteur” by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to investigate the allegations of Chinese intervention.

Her research was only longer than his.

But, incredibly, the flawless character of Johnston, faithfulness to Canada and independence were subjected to a prolonged and outrageous attack by disintegrating opposition politicians and media figures, more interested in the “scandal” than the truth.

The globe and the mail have led the fee for this outrageous result.

I was horrified when the conservative MP asked another witness during a committee hearing if the former Queen representative was a Chinese “asset” of a Chinese.

The meaningless insinuations and smears ended with Johnston's resignation as a “special rapporteur”.

Now Hoo's report stands as a revenge with the size of the brand of the intelligent, sober and deliberate work of Johnston.

Johnston is also due to an apology.

However, an editorial writer of Globe insist This Hog has performed a “service” of the “brave people in the intelligence community of Canada”, which “have been concerned that the Trudeau government ignored a threat to the federal electoral system.”

An old hand at the globe told me that the newspaper editors are disappointed with the exhaustive rebuttal of Hoog by his report and that the consensus among journalists inside and beyond its island orbit is that they were “played” by those “bold” plaques that They have, like The Excited Group of Columnists, who numb in China, disappeared suddenly.

Meanwhile, the President of the United States -the most expensive and closest neighbor in Canada -was busy with hatching plans for annexing and transforming the large white, mainly uninhabited north into the 51st country in America, through criminal economic force.

Obviously, the “brave” spies in Canada were too busy focusing an indictment in Beijing to notice the true and present danger nearby.

The anger expressed in this article are the author's own and do not necessarily reflect Al Jazee's editorial position.