Following a two-year investigation, a former R.C.M.P. police officer in Canada has been charged with foreign influence on behalf of China. William Majcher, 60, reportedly used his Canadian contacts to help China “intimidate an individual outside the scope of Canadian law.”

Officials in Canada have repeatedly warned of continued Chinese spy operations in the nation. Members of parliament and Chinese dissidents are reportedly targets. China has categorically disputed the accusations.

The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) said in a statement that Mr Majcher, a Hong Kong native, “allegedly used his knowledge and extensive network of contacts in Canada to obtain intelligence or services to benefit the People’s Republic of China.”

Mr. Majcher now faces two criminal charges: conspiracy and preparatory conduct for the benefit of a foreign corporation. Both accusations fall under Canada’s Security of Information Act.

The RCMP stated that the investigation into Mr Majcher, who appeared in court through video call on Friday, began in late 2021.

Tasha Adams, an RCMP spokesperson, said Radio-Canada that Mr. Majcher was gathering information on the anonymous individual because Chinese officials planned to target him.

The accused target’s identity and nationality are unknown. Ms Adams, on the other hand, stated that the claimed foreign meddling had nothing to do with Canadian politics or elections.

It comes as Canada grows increasingly concerned about purported Chinese espionage activities. In May, the Canadian government expelled a Chinese diplomat for alleged foreign meddling in Canadian affairs.

The next month, Canadian police launched an investigation into charges that China attempted to intimidate a member of parliament and his family, one of more than 100 probes into foreign intervention.

Authorities have also raised concerns about foreign influence in Canada’s 2019 and 2021 elections, which purportedly included unreported cash donations and secret sponsorship to candidates from Chinese diplomatic officials.

Mao Ning, a spokeswoman for China’s foreign ministry, labelled the Canadian claims “groundless slander and defamation” in June.

Canada’s fears about Chinese espionage are comparable to those of the US government, which has repeatedly accused China of threatening and eavesdropping on dissidents in the US.

Every 12 hours, the FBI launches a new counter-intelligence case involving China, according to the bureau.

More than 2,000 cases were open as of early this year.

Transfer of Canada’s most notorious murderer

Meanwhile, Paul Bernardo, the child serial killer and serial rapist, is now in a medium-security jail, not because of Correctional Services Canada (CSC), but because the Liberals modified the law to make it easier on convicts.

The entire saga surrounding the transfer of one of Canada’s most notorious murderers, the appalling treatment of his victims’ families, and the failure to honour and respect the memories of Leslie Mahaffy, 14, and Kristen French, 15, can be blamed squarely on the Trudeau government, which instituted reforms that allow monsters like Bernardo to live more freely.

It is worth reminding Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his cabinet of the comments of the court who deemed Bernardo a dangerous offender who should spend the rest of his life in prison.

“I dare say that all of the people in Ontario, and perhaps Canada, have felt… the revulsion of the crimes which you have committed, Mr. Bernardo,” stated Judge Patrick LeSage in 1995.
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Bernardo’s offences, according to LeSage, were “of such a violent nature as to compel the conclusion that your future activity is unlikely to be restricted by normal standards of behavioural restriction…. Jail is what you need for behavioural constraints. In my opinion, you need it for the remainder of your natural life…. You are a sadistic sexual psychopath. In the extreme, the chances of you receiving treatment are slim.”

In a letter to CSC Commissioner Anne Kelly last month, Tim Danson, the lawyer representing the Mahaffy and French families, quoted those statements. He also reminded Kelly that Bernardo showed no remorse for his crimes and continued to exhibit all of the characteristics of the “sexually sadistic psychopath” he was at his trial.

A Parole Board of Canada (PBC) hearing in 2018 determined that Bernardo matched the criteria for “sexual sadism, voyeurism, and paraphilia.” A psychiatrist suspected he had narcissistic personality disorder and was gloomy about his chances of recovery.

“The PBC also noted that other psychiatrists agreed with previous diagnoses of sexual sadism and psychopathy, indicating significant risk of re-offending,'” Danson said.

“They believed that treatment would fail due to Mr. Bernardo’s ‘personality characteristics and sexual pathology.'”

Danson further stated, “Bernardo was discovered to be ‘callous, glib, grandiose, cunning, deceptive, manipulative, and a liar.'” Furthermore, the board determined that Bernardo “had a complete lack of understanding of the consequences of his offending, violent and sadistic behaviour.”

Another Parole Board hearing in 2021 decided that Bernardo was a sexual sadist with psychopathic tendencies who was at high risk of engaging in violent sexual activity. “At both parole hearings, the PBC found that Bernardo showed no remorse, insight, or empathy,” Danson wrote.

Nonetheless, CSC opted to transfer him to a medium-security jail. Bernardo had requested a transfer to a medium-security prison in June 2022, which CSC declined earlier this week. “His failure to integrate within the inmate population and the ongoing measures that were required to manage his safety (e.g., individualised protocols) were decisive factors,” according to the CSC.

Bernardo, on the other hand, worked with officials a month later “to develop a plan for institutional integration.” According to reports, his behaviour abruptly changed. “In July of 2022, the offender ‘fully integrated’ on his range, which represented a new development in the case,” the CSC writes.
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Bernardo was accepted for transfer to Quebec’s La Macaza Institution, a medium-security prison, within months. A monster who had remained the same for 28 years, and whose past two parole hearings had dubbed him a sadistic, narcissistic psychopath, could suddenly be relocated because he had “fully integrated” with other convicts – in just one month.

Danson sounded sceptical that Bernardo could change at all in his letter to Kelly. “No one can argue that Mr. Bernardo has been able to effect miraculous rehabilitation within a maximum-security federal penitentiary in the last two years that he could not achieve in the first 28 years,” he wrote.

Danson also cautioned, “This man is a monster, devoid of even a speck of humanity, decency, remorse, or empathy.” At the same time, he is deftly devious and manipulative.”

The fact that CSC had to adhere to a modification to the Corrections and Conditional Release Act adopted by the Liberals in 2019 is underlying the rationale for Bernardo’s transfer, which is stated multiple times in its argument.

The “least restrictive measures” principle states that the CSC must take steps to place convicts in “the least restrictive environment” practicable.

The act had previously mentioned “necessary restrictions.” By modifying the term to “least restrictive,” the government has given assassins like Bernardo a way to scam the system. This has added to the sorrow of the Mahaffy and French families, as well as all victims’ families who have had their grief trampled on in the name of inmates’ rights.
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The offices of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Public Safety Minister Marco Mendocino were aware of Bernardo’s move three months in advance, but were so careless that they did nothing to warn anyone to this tragedy.

Danson, the families’ lawyer, was not informed until after the transfer was completed. He stated in his letter, “Evil is too kind of a word for Paul Bernardo.” That is correct. And “competent” is too nice a word for the Trudeau administration.