Michael Ma, the Conservative MP who crossed the floor last week to bring Prime Minister Mark Carney’s Liberals one seat short of a majority, was part of a controversial diaspora organization that urged former Conservative leader Erin O’Toole to resign after the 2021 election over what it described as his “anti-China” stance, told Chinese Canadians to “vote carefully” ahead of the 2025 election, and later called for Pierre Poilievre to step down, according to Chinese-language records reviewed by The Bureau.
The records link Ma — who defeated a Liberal candidate in Markham-Unionville after the party replaced incumbent Liberal Paul Chiang — to a politically active network of community leaders that has repeatedly intervened in Conservative leadership politics while echoing Beijing-aligned talking points on Canada–China relations.
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Chinese-language outlets including EasyCA show Ma listed as a director of the Chinese Canadian Conservative Association in 2019, with additional Chinese-language coverage later describing him as a leader. Two years later, the group held a widely covered October 2021 press conference accusing O’Toole’s “anti-China” stance of costing the Conservatives the election and demanding his resignation.
The National Post reported that the CCCA’s spokesman at the event asserted that China’s arrest of the “Two Michaels” occurred only after “Canada started the war,” that China had a right to fly military aircraft into Taiwan’s air-defence zone, and that Canada should not publicly criticize Beijing’s human-rights abuses.
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In the run-up to the 2025 vote — and shortly after Chiang was forced to step down after acknowledging he had suggested his Conservative rival, Joe Tay, could be turned over to Chinese diplomats in connection with a Hong Kong bounty — the same organization emerged again.
WeChat posts show the group’s leaders meeting with Ma in March 2025 and publicly promoting their endorsement of Ma.
In April 2025, during the final stretch of the federal campaign, the group convened another media event urging Chinese Canadians to “vote carefully,” stressing that voters should support “the candidate they approve of — rather than the party.”
Shortly after the Conservative defeat, it again surfaced in Toronto calling for Poilievre to “actively resign,” echoing its 2021 message that Conservative leaders who antagonize Beijing cannot win.
This site seems to be part of the CPC’s targeted messaging campaign. So many different news sites like this too, their coverage will generally try to target specific topics. It’s very similar to how people connected to the party opened “Proud” groups across the country, each group had a slightly different message to target each provincial population, but the common thread was anti-LPC/NDP, and pro-CPC.
The idea is to take all these different groups who might not get along, the anti-China, the transphobes, the anti-vaxxers, the health naturalists, the separatists, the white nationalists, the MGTOW, they all get their own little landing page that ties all their woes to political opponents, paints them as enemies beyond saving, and positions the CPC as the only ones to save the country from these enemies.
However you feel about the campaign, it’s been incredible successful in creating a curated bubble for the CPC base, where the shared reality experienced in news bubbles is drastically different from one another. When people can’t even agree on reality, it becomes a lot harder to agree on policy.
I took a look at the site. “The Bureau” is a racist screed by one guy. It’s not journalism, it’s just fearmongering.
The foreign interference hysteria propaganda needs to stop. We need anti-humanist, and Canadian diminishment, restrictions on speech/policies/bribes among our politicians. Treating openness to Chinese cooperation as if China has already declared war on us is just a tool for CIA stooges to make Canada to have as its only choice/option more US subservience.
This is about Chinese interference, and, more importantly, about Canada’s independence and democracy. It has nothing to do with the US and shows that China isn’t a friend either.
Canadian independence only exists with an openness to do business with other nations than our US slave masters who’ve declared war on us. BS that only hatred towards China is acceptable politics is treason and diminishment of Canadians and their prosperity.
Have you been paying attention? China is like the crimes against humanity final boss.
I indeed have heard that before. I think they say that to make us part of the alliance against China.
China is a dictatorship, and reliance on the country will threatens and eventually diminishes Canadians’ prosperity. This is a fact and not hatred.
