Courruption, Espionage and Elite Capture in Canada’s Smallest Province: Canada Under Siege Book Launch at the MacDonald Laurier Insitrute, Ottawa, Oct.8th
Optimum Publishing International is proud to announce the release of Canada Under Siege: How PEI Became a Forward Operating Base for the Chinese Communist Party, a provocative investigation by renowned intelligence experts Michel Juneau-Katsuya and Gary Clement, with publisher Dean Baxendale.
5:00 - 7:00PM
BOOK LAUNCH - MACDONALD LAURIER INSTITUTUE, 323 CHAPEL ST, OTTAWA
7:00-9:00PM
RECEPTION - ALLSAINTS, MANIFESTO LOUNGE, 330 LAURIER AVE E. OTTAWA
In 2007, Prince Edward Island—Canada’s smallest province—welcomed a Taiwanese Buddhist group seeking a safe haven for its form of Tibetan Buddhism. Eighteen years later, the organization known as Bliss & Wisdom has bitterly divided the island. Massive monasteries rise from rural farmland; no one can say how much land the group controls.
Local leaders remain unusually quiet. The Canadian Government is uninterested
Islanders are asking: What’s the endgame?
Game of Shadows follows three investigators: a book publisher, a former RCMP money-laundering specialist, and the former head of Canadian intelligence’s Asia bureau.
What begins as local concern escalates as they follow the money: offshore structures, vast property holdings, and a charismatic, enigmatic leader—Mary Jin—a mainland Chinese spiritual authority with no formal monastic training, little time in Taiwan, and no known meeting with the Dalai Lama.
Some Tibetan figures raise quiet alarms—not just about Mary Jin’s legitimacy, but about the transfer of sacred scrolls to PEI, where Bliss & Wisdom monks are translating them into Mandarin.
From Charlottetown to Taipei, the team uncovers ties to over 200 global entities and over $500 million in assets—just on PEI. In Taipei, few will talk, but the trail leads to a broader $11-billion Chinese money-laundering network linked to Taiwanese Buddhist groups.
Is this a spiritual movement—or a covert effort by the Chinese Communist Party to control Buddhism for its own ends?
Could the CCP’s religious expansion be a smokescreen for deeper geopolitical interests?
Book Signing and Q&A with author Gary Clement and publisher Dean Baxendale
Refreshments will be served at the reception
It is Canada’s smallest province,
but can the birthplace of confederation
play a new role in claiming back our nation?
