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Fenella Sung and her colleagues believe Canadians should be thinking China when they cast their ballots this federal election — but insist that has little to do with foreign policy.

The Chinese government and Chinese Communist Party (CCP) are already so embedded in Canadian society, they argue, it’s very much a domestic issue.

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To that end, Sung’s group, Canadian Friends of Hong Kong, launched an online guide for voters Thursday, to help them identify candidates who may be too closely allied with Beijing and raise the topic’s profile with the public and politicians.

The website offers a primer on how China has allegedly tried to influence Canadian society, from its use of the party’s United Front Work Department to the Beijing-run Confucius Institutes located in Canadian colleges and school boards.

They fail to see the infiltration of the CCP in Canada is not Canada-China relations, it affects very much all of our daily lives here in Canada. Because they have already become a part of us

And it provides an array of questions to ask candidates. Those include whether they favour keeping the Chinese company Huawei out of 5G telecommunications networks, and their position on forcing international students from “non-democratic” countries to undergo crash courses on Canadian values.