2025 Federal Election
RCMP Whistleblowers Accuse Members of Mark Carney’s Inner Circle of Security Breaches and Surveillance
Dan Knight
A serving RCMP sergeant and retired national security detective accuse Trudeau-era ministers—and now Mark Carney’s inner circle—of illegal surveillance and intelligence cover-ups
In a stunning open letter dated April 12, 2025 which allegations are unverified went viral yesterday, RCMP Sgt. Peter Merrifield and retired national security detective Paul McNamara have accused a slate of former and current Liberal cabinet ministers—including members of Mark Carney’s leadership circle—of allowing and covering up serious breaches of Canadian national security, the Charter of Rights, and the public trust.
The letter, addressed directly to Prime Minister Mark Carney, lays out explosive allegations supported, they say, by documentation and communications records. The authors are demanding Carney remove specific individuals from his campaign and inner circle to demonstrate that he will not inherit or excuse the Liberal Party’s pattern of evasion and abuse of power under Justin Trudeau.
“You are presenting your financial background as the requisite and relevant experience to lead a nation,” they write. “Perhaps it was your lack of political and government experience that saw you mishandle the extremely serious matter with your current Member of Parliament Paul Chiang.”
“He openly called for the abduction…”
The letter references former Liberal MP Paul Chiang, who stepped down in disgrace after it was revealed he told a Chinese-language audience that they could claim a $1 million bounty from the Chinese government by delivering Conservative candidate Joe Tay—a Canadian citizen—“to the Chinese Consulate in Toronto.”
Merrifield and McNamara did not mince words:
“MP Chiang not only acted without integrity as a Member of Parliament and former police officer, but he also openly called for the abduction and handover of a Canadian citizen and political opponent to a foreign country that the Liberal government has criticized for human rights violations.”
They go further, directly accusing Carney of failing his first major leadership test:
“This unparalleled action in Canadian history was your first public test as a leader… You hesitated and did not publicly demonstrate the recognition of the seriousness of the offence.”
9 Trudeau-Era Officials Named and Shamed
The letter then shifts to its most consequential section: a list of nine former and current ministers—some of whom now work in Carney’s office—who the authors accuse of either enabling, ignoring, or directly participating in unlawful actions.
Among the most damning claims:
- Marco Mendicino is accused of having “failed… to act in protecting Canadians abroad from potential arrest and detention,” and for permitting “breaches of law, breaches of process, and breaches of policy by both CSIS and the RCMP.”
- Dominic LeBlanc, they allege, “failed… to address breaches against Canadians with improper use of electronic spyware by CSIS and the RCMP,” including breaches “against Labour Unions.”
- Bill Blair is accused of “authorizing extreme powers for CSIS to undertake inappropriate actions against innocent Canadians,” and permitting violations of the Ministerial Directive on National Security Operations in Sensitive Sectors.
- Anita Anand allegedly “failed to intercede and address improper use of spyware by the RCMP against a Labour Union Executive during a period of collective bargaining and unfair labour practice filing.”
They also accuse Melanie Joly and Arif Virani of failing to act after the “public release of protected Section 38 National Security documents… without redaction,” which they claim exposed Canadian operatives and their families to retaliation from the Chinese state.
“These individuals now and forever have a target on their backs.”
Merrifield and McNamara claim these failures led to tangible threats against Canadians who were caught in the middle of international espionage between China and Canada.
“Several innocent Canadians have been placed at risk of direct retaliation by Chinese foreign intelligence… These innocent individuals now and forever have a target on their backs.”
They argue that had ministers acted when first informed in 2022, this exposure never would’ve happened.
The letter ends with a final challenge to Carney:
“If indeed you are presenting Canadians a choice of ‘something new’, then take action now rather than making election campaign promises to ‘look into it’ later.”
They tell Carney that surrounding himself with “the failed engineers of the past” will only prove that his leadership is a continuation—not a break—from the rot of the Trudeau years.
Who Are Merrifield and McNamara?
Peter Merrifield is a veteran RCMP sergeant who served on the executive board of the National Police Federation, the official RCMP union. He has previously filed lawsuits against the force for political retaliation and harassment. He alleges he was targeted by spyware (ODIT)—the same kind used to track terrorists—during union negotiations with the federal government.
Det. Paul McNamara (Ret.), a seasoned national security investigator, has worked with Merrifield for several years compiling documentary evidence of alleged abuses by CSIS and the RCMP. He co-authored the letter and claims they are in possession of “documents, communication records, and evidence” to back every charge.
Final word
So now the stakes are laid bare.
This election isn’t just about policy. It’s not about carbon taxes or housing slogans or who can shake the most hands in Brampton. It’s about whether Canada is still a country governed by the rule of law—or a decaying shell run by insiders, spooks, and bureaucrats who answer to no one.
Because Mark Carney has a choice: lead with integrity, or carry water for the same Liberal machine that gave us surveillance on union reps, CSIS interference, and national security scandals buried under layers of Ottawa spin.
And Canadians have a choice too.
If the allegations are true do we want more of the same? More willful blindness, more gaslighting, more foreign interference and media complicity dressed up as “safety and stability”?
Or are we finally ready to demand something different?
This election is a referendum on accountability. And for once, the line is crystal clear.
Choose wisely. Because this time, the country’s not going to survive on autopilot.
This article supplied by Troy Media.
By Michael Taube
Official party status requires 12 seats. The NDP got seven. End of story
Rules are rules.
That, in a nutshell, is why the NDP wasn’t granted official party status in the House of Commons on Monday. Prime Minister Mark Carney and the
Liberals, to their credit, made the right decision.
Let’s examine why.
The 1963 Senate and House of Commons Act passed an amendment that gave an annual allowance to party leaders other than the prime minister and
leader of the Opposition. In doing so, the Canadian government had to establish what constitutes a “political party.” The definition they came up with was a sensible one: it had to have a “recognized membership of 12 or more persons in the House of Commons.”
This important amendment is still used today.
The NDP fell from 24 to a paltry seven seats in last month’s federal election. (There are a total of 343 seats in the House of Commons.) They finished with 1,234,673 votes, or 6.29 per cent, which was behind the Liberals, Conservatives and Bloc Québécois. Party leader Jagmeet Singh, who had represented the former Burnaby South riding since 2019, finished a distant third in the newly created Burnaby Central riding and resigned.
The NDP’s seven seats is well below the 12-seat requirement needed for official party status. This means Canada’s socialist alternative won’t be able to ask questions in the House of Commons and will lose out on money for research purposes.
Or, to put it another way, they’re plumb out of luck.
Hold on, some people said. They pointed out that the NDP’s seat count and popular vote only plummeted because many progressive voters backed Carney and the Liberals as the best option to counter U.S. President Donald Trump and his tariffs. They felt that the NDP’s long history as a champion for unions and the working class should count for something. They suggested there should be an exception to the rule.
Guess what? They’re wrong.
This is the worst election result in the party’s history. Even its predecessor, the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF), did marginally better in its first campaign. The CCF won seven out of 245 seats—and earned 410,125 votes, or 9.31 per cent—in the 1935 election. Party leader J.S. Woodsworth, who had represented the riding of Winnipeg North Centre as an Independent Labour MP since 1925, comfortably held his seat.
Meanwhile, this won’t be the first time they’ve ever lost official party status.
The NDP dropped from 43 to nine seats in the 1993 election. It was a dismal showing, to say the least. There was a suggestion at the time that then-party leader Audrey McLaughlin, the first woman to lead a party with political representation in Canada’s House of Commons, deserved a better fate. While the NDP certainly came closer to achieving the 12-seat requirement in this particular election, Prime Minister Jean Chrétien and the Liberals decided against granting them official party status.
Why? As I mentioned earlier, rules are rules.
Then again, British pilot Harry Day notably told his fellow flying ace Douglas Bader in 1931, “You know my views about some regulations—they’re written for the obedience of fools and the guidance of wise men.”
Does this mean that individuals and organizations who follow rules are, in fact, fools? Not at all. While certain rules in a liberal democratic society can range from slightly questionable to utterly ridiculous, they’re usually put in place for a specific purpose.
In the case of the House of Commons, it’s to ensure that a bar has been set with respect to political representation. Is 12 seats the right number? That’s difficult to say. It certainly prevents small protest parties and one-issue parties that unexpectedly win a tiny number of seats in an election from acquiring power and status right off the bat. They need to win more seats and grow in size and stature to reach a point of respectability. Most of them never reach this point and disappear while others float in a constant state of mediocrity like the Green Party of Canada. ’Tis the nature of the political beast.
One final point. If Singh and the NDP had reached double digits in total number of seats in 2025, a solid case could have been made in favour of official party status. If they had finished with 11 seats, it would have almost been a lock. Neither scenario ultimately materialized, which is why Carney and the Liberals did exactly what they did.
Michael Taube is a political commentator, Troy Media syndicated columnist and former speechwriter for Prime Minister Stephen Harper. He holds a master’s degree in comparative politics from the London School of Economics, lending academic rigour to his political insights.
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2025 Federal Election
Judicial recounts give Conservatives 2 more seats, keeping Liberals short of majority
From LifeSiteNews
After a judicial recount, Conservative candidate Kathy Borrelli has officially won over Liberal incumbent Irek Kusmierczyk, in the Ontario riding of Windsor-Tecumseh-Lakeshore.
Judicial recounts from the 2025 federal election have given the Conservative Party two new seats, with one candidate winning by just four votes.
After a judicial recount, Conservative candidate Kathy Borrelli has officially won over Liberal incumbent Irek Kusmierczyk, in the Ontario riding of Windsor-Tecumseh-Lakeshore.
Borrelli got 32,090 votes, with Kusmierczyk getting 32,086 votes, and NDP candidate Alex Ilijoski getting 4,240 votes.
In the Newfoundland riding of Terra Nova-The Peninsulas, Conservative candidate Jonathan Rowe beat out Liberal Anthony Germain by just 12 votes after a recount with the initial result showing a Liberal victory.
The new election results mean the Conservatives now have 144 seats with the Liberals at 169, three short of a majority.
Judicial recounts are automatically triggered when the margin of victory for a candidate is less than 0.1 percent of valid votes.
While these recounts have favored the Conservatives, others have gone in the Liberal Party’s favor.
A May 16 judicial recount switched the southern Ontario riding of Milton East-Halton Hills South to the Liberals with a 21-vote victory over the Conservatives.
Overall, the election results have been a big blow to the Conservative Party, which on top of losing the election also saw its leader, Pierre Poilievre, fail to win his long-held seat. However, Poilievre is expected to run in a yet-to-be-announced by-election in Alberta to reclaim a seat in Parliament.
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