Epoch Times - Peter Mattis warns the CCP is exploiting Canada’s weak enforcement landscape

April 27, 2026 - Epoch Times

02:15

Peter Mattis warns the CCP is exploiting Canada’s weak enforcement landscape

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Peter Mattis warns the CCP exploits Canada's weak enforcement, specifically a 60-day wiretap limit that forces authorities to rely on allies or complex workarounds for foreign intelligence targets. This legal gap allows investigations to lack admissible evidence, enabling the party to operate like Deng Xiaoping's strategy with triads: collecting rents while remaining "patriotic." By facilitating global money laundering at fees under 10%, significantly lower than traditional rates, the CCP dominates the sector without direct confrontation, effectively turning Canada's legal interstices into a tool for illicit financial control. [Automatically generated summary]
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CCP Money Laundering in Canada 00:02:14
	The other piece is that Canada is a place where the CCP's role in drug smuggling, in money laundering, has just been easier to do than it is in other places.
	And part of that has to do with restrictions that are there on Canadian law enforcement.
	I think they've got something like 60 days with a wiretap before they have to inform the target of an investigation.
	And that means that they've got to do some fancy footwork or they've got to work with allies to sort of spy on those kinds of targets.
	and creates some kind of thing where if it's a foreign intelligence target, then Canadian law enforcement doesn't necessarily need to share it.
	So how do you kind of work it?
	It creates a lot of complicated things of how do you get an investigation?
	How do you get an investigation that has legally admissible evidence?
	That gives the party a lot of opportunity.
	I think when you look at how the party has operated in places like Hong Kong, how it has operated with triads and other organized crime groups, The party is already filling in these kinds of spaces, these little interstices in normal functioning to collect rents and to keep things.
	And they get the opportunity to take advantage of with these groups.
	And it works as long as – I think it was Deng Xiaoping who referred to as long as the triads are patriotic, then we can figure out a way to do business and kind of keep things away from the party and keep things away from the state apparatus.
	and let it kind of work under the table.
	It's a great way to help people earn money on the side for being patriotic.
	And this is the kind of reason why you've seen this kind of party criminal nexus essentially take over global money laundering without really firing a shot.
	Because it used to be in the old days if someone laundered your money, they took 30, 40%.
	What the Chinese are doing now is something less than 10%.
	Right, you can't compete with that.
	Right, because of the inside outside.
	Fascinating.

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CCP Money Laundering in Canada 00:02:14

The other piece is that Canada is a place where the CCP's role in drug smuggling, in money laundering, has just been easier to do than it is in other places.

And part of that has to do with restrictions that are there on Canadian law enforcement.

I think they've got something like 60 days with a wiretap before they have to inform the target of an investigation.

And that means that they've got to do some fancy footwork or they've got to work with allies to sort of spy on those kinds of targets.

and creates some kind of thing where if it's a foreign intelligence target, then Canadian law enforcement doesn't necessarily need to share it.

So how do you kind of work it?

It creates a lot of complicated things of how do you get an investigation?

How do you get an investigation that has legally admissible evidence?

That gives the party a lot of opportunity.

I think when you look at how the party has operated in places like Hong Kong, how it has operated with triads and other organized crime groups, The party is already filling in these kinds of spaces, these little interstices in normal functioning to collect rents and to keep things.

And they get the opportunity to take advantage of with these groups.

And it works as long as – I think it was Deng Xiaoping who referred to as long as the triads are patriotic, then we can figure out a way to do business and kind of keep things away from the party and keep things away from the state apparatus.

and let it kind of work under the table.

It's a great way to help people earn money on the side for being patriotic.

And this is the kind of reason why you've seen this kind of party criminal nexus essentially take over global money laundering without really firing a shot.

Because it used to be in the old days if someone laundered your money, they took 30, 40%.

What the Chinese are doing now is something less than 10%.

Right, you can't compete with that.

Right, because of the inside outside.

Fascinating.