ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Sam Cooper is an award-winning Canadian journalist cited as one of Canada’s top investigative reporters. Cooper started with a North Vancouver newspaper in 2006, and moved up to the Vancouver Province in 2009, where he started to investigate political corruption and real estate money laundering in Vancouver. Cooper broke the B.C. casino money laundering and “E-Pirate” story in 2017 at the Vancouver Sun and has now filed more than 50 exclusive stories on the widening scandal. Since winning the Jack Webster Award for student journalist at Langara College in 2005, he has won several prizes, including a Canada National Newspaper Award and a Jack Webster Award, for his reporting with the Vancouver Province on abuse of seniors in B.C. care homes. Cooper and his Global News reporting team won the Jack Webster 2019 Excellence in Feature/Enterprise Reporting – Television for their submission: Casino Diaries Cooper holds an HBA from the University of Toronto, a Journalism degree from Langara College, and has completed several narrative writing training programs facilitated by his employers. He is now the Chief Editor of The Bureau based in Ottawa, Canada. Michel Juneau-Katsuya is the former Chief of Asia Pacific for the Canadian Security Intelligence Service. Today, he is an Associate Professor at Sherbrooke University. Juneau-Katsuya is also the Author of Nest of Spies and Co-author of the upcoming book Canada Under Siege Senior Fellow, Sinopsis Formerly Professor, Department of Political Science at Brock University specializing in Comparative Politics, Government and Politics of China, Canada-China Relations and Human Rights, 1989-2020. Counsellor at the Canadian Embassy to China between 1991-1993 and 1998-2000. Previously worked at the Communications Security Establishment of the Canadian Department of National Defence. PhD 1987 from the University of Toronto after studies at Cambridge University (Oriental Studies) and Fudan University (History of Ancient Chinese Thought Program, Department of Philosophy, class of '77). Izaak Walton Killam Memorial Post-Doctoral Scholar in Political Science at University of Alberta, 1986-88. He has published extensively on Chinese and North Korean affairs and Canada-China relations and has been commissioned to write reports on matters relating to Canada's relations with China for agencies of the Government of Canada. Charles is a frequent commentator on Chinese affairs in newspapers, radio and TV.
""Wilful Blindness"" by Samuel Cooper is a significant contribution to the field of investigative journalism and crime reporting. It offers a sobering look at the extent to which criminal networks have infiltrated Western institutions and the challenges that lie ahead in combating this menace. The book is recommended for anyone interested in understanding the intersection of crime, politics, and international relations, and it serves as a wake-up call to the pervasive threat of transnational criminal networks. For decades, the relationship between organized crime from Asia, Chinese Communist Party proxies, and their willing targets in the West has been evident. Our political apparatus and the lack of seriousness around national security have allowed many bad actors to infiltrate all levels of government in Canada. From Vancouver to Charlottetown, the United Front Work Department has been turning unsuspecting politicians into known assets, exposing the vulnerabilities within our political system -- Anonymous * Former National Security Advisor *