OTTAWA (LifeSiteNews) — China expert Steven Mosher has condemned a Canadian Chinese “anti-racism” protest at Parliament Hill as a “militant act” on behalf of Communist China.

On June 24, a group dressed in uniforms marched to the official anthem of China’s military force as thousands of Chinese Canadians gathered on Parliament Hill in Ottawa at a protest allegedly against anti-Asian racism.

“The Chinese Communist Party has greatly increased its funding for ‘United Front’ tactics and is aggressively recruiting Chinese emigrants to help in this effort,” Mosher, president of the Population Research Institute, told LifeSiteNews.

“The singing of the PLA military’s anthem in front of Parliament Hill is a militant act that makes clear where the real loyalties of these people lie — and this is not with the country they are living in,” he added.

“The majority of Chinese Canadians want nothing to do with the Chinese Communist Party, and indeed have fled places like Shanghai and Hong Kong to escape it,” Mosher revealed. “As for those relatively few who reside in Canada but serve Beijing, they should be treated as agents of a hostile foreign power.”

While Chinese protesters were distinctly told not to bring Communist China flags, video footage obtained by Found In Translation shows about 40 people marching in military formation along Wellington Street toward Parliament Hill.

The protesters, dressed similar to the Chinese athletes’ Olympic uniforms for the Beijing 2008 Olympics Games, walked down the street as the official anthem of China’s military force played on a loudspeaker.

At the beginning of the video, a female voice is heard declaring, “Golden Years Ottawa Parliament Hill parade. Start!”

Upon hearing this, the man leading the military-style parade saluted the audience by putting his right hand on the forehead. In his other hand, he held the Canadian national flag.

The translated lyrics of the anthem read:

Fearless, unyielding, heroically fight until we exterminate all counter-revolutionaries

Mao Zedong’s flag is fluttering high

Listen! The wind is roaring and the bugle is sounding

Listen! How thunderously our revolutionary song is roaring

Comrades, march forth united to the battlefields of liberation

Comrades, march forth united to the frontiers of our nation.

Former Canadian Ambassador to China David Mulroney told LifeSiteNews that while “Communist songs and marches are often played at special events in China, the grounds of our Parliament are not in China.”

“Some, but by no means all Chinese cultural associations overseas, embrace PRC leader Xi Jinping’s vision of the Great Chinese nation,” he continued. “This is the idea that the Chinese state includes all people of Chinese origin, wherever they happen to live.”

“This greatly facilitates Beijing’s efforts to influence and interfere in foreign countries, Canada included. It inspires the establishment of illegal PRC ‘police stations’ overseas and many of the pro-China events and protests in diaspora communities internationally,” Mulroney explained.

“The extraterritorial reach of the Chinese state is facilitated by spineless authorities in Canada and other countries who simply look the other way, effectively ceding authority to local PRC officials,” he added.

Indeed, Communist China seems to be welcomed into Canada by government officials, particularly Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who declared China is the country who he admires the most.

According to Blacklock’s Reporter, Victor Ho, retired editor of Sing Tao Daily, testified that the recent emphasis on anti-Asian discrimination in Canada is a distraction from the real issue.

“For example, in the Covid-19 era, they spread the ‘anti-Asian hate’ campaign,” Ho testified. “This was a national campaign, even a transnational campaign in the United States, the anti-Asian hate campaign.”

“It cast the agenda as a racial issue rather than a pandemic or public health issue,” Ho said. “In the election period, they just color the entire opposition views in the Chinese community, the anti-Party commentary, as a racial problem.”

“Is this something that, because it is often in languages many Canadians wouldn’t understand – Mandarin, Cantonese – it hides in plain sight?” Conservative MP Damien Kurek of Battle River-Crowfoot, Alberta asked.

“Oh yes,” Ho replied. “This is an ethnic language problem. In mainstream society, they have no idea what is happening in our Chinese community.”