Canada Under Siege
How PEI Became a Forward Operating Base for the Chinese Communist Party
Garry Clement author Michel Juneau Katsuya author Dean Baxendale author
Format:Book
Publisher:Optimum Publishing International
Published:5th Aug '25
Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back

What if one of Canada’s quietest provinces had become a staging ground for a foreign power?
What if the red cliffs and tranquil shores of Prince Edward Island masked something more troubling—something that reached from Charlottetown to Beijing?
Canada Under Siege is an investigation into how the Chinese Communist Party may have quietly infiltrated Canada’s smallest province. At the heart of this inquiry is a fundamental question:
How did a place known for simplicity and serenity become a strategic beachhead for elite capture, covert influence, and international subversion?
Through a series of disturbing leads, veteran investigators Michel Juneau-Katsuya (CSIS) and Garry Clement (RCMP) follow the money, land deals, and political alignments that suggest Prince Edward Island may have become something more than a rural outpost—it may be a case study in how foreign influence embeds itself deep within democratic systems.
Their investigation begins with Frank Zhou and Sherry Huang, Chinese Canadian entrepreneurs whose presence on PEI extends far beyond tourism brochures. What role did they play in influencing political leaders, including former premiers Robert Ghiz and Wade MacLauchlan? Did the Provincial Nominee Program—intended to promote immigration—become a tool for geopolitical leverage? Was Anne of China Inc. just a cultural venture, or a Trojan horse for soft power messaging disguised as economic partnership?
The book asks: Why did so few challenge this convergence of political power and foreign capital? Why were public servants who raised concerns sidelined, silenced, or removed? Why did nobody act?
Then there is the mystery of the Bliss and Wisdom Buddhist group, led by Zhen-Ru (Mary Jin). Promising to build a “Thousand Year Monastery” on the island, this Taiwan-based monastic group has acquired vast tracts of land through monastics and affiliated donors. Is this a closed religious community simply seeking peace—or something else entirely? Could its links to the Buddhist Association of China suggest a deeper form of ideological control under religious guise?
Multiple sources, including the elusive Venerable Fan Yin, who quietly departed in 2017, hint at internal power struggles and shifting allegiances. But why has no one investigated who funds this expansion? Why is there so little public scrutiny?
Across interviews with whistleblowers, activists, and security insiders, Canada Under Siege uncovers unanswered questions and disturbing patterns—from aborted RCMP...
“It’s shocking to read about how a massive Buddhist monastery and nunnery have set up on PEI and is apparently being used as a cover for the CCP buying up properties across eastern PEI with bags of cash and letting the properties go fallow. The book shows how PEI communities are being seriously damaged.”
-- Margaret McCuaig-Johnston * Senior Fellow, University of Ottawa *“Canada Under Siege is a must-read for anyone who cares about the sanctity of democracy, religion, and culture. These are pillars of the free world, but, for the Chinese Communist Party, nothing is sacrosanct except the Party itself. Neither religion nor Canada’s beloved Anne of Green Gables is shielded from exploitation. This book reveals what happens when those we entrust to defend our institutions and culture fail to do so and then underlines the consequences of their failure on everyday citizens who lose their land, their homes, their prosperity, their freedom to worship, and their values to a foreign adversary.” – Kevin Vuong, Former Canadian Member of Parliament and Senior Fellow at The Macdonald-Laurier Institute
-- Kevin Vuong * Former Member of Parliament and Senior Fellow at MacDonald Laurier InstituISBN: 9780888903556
Dimensions: 229mm x 152mm x 19mm
Weight: 300g
240 pages