Was she a spy?!

A Canadian cleared to work inside NATO’s military headquarters is now in Belgian custody, accused of espionage.

But this episode isn’t about deciding whether she’s guilty. That allegation remains unproven.

It’s about what was already sitting in the public record before she ever got there.

In 2023, the Public Service Commission of Canada found that Biwei Zhang had committed fraud during a federal hiring process after applying twice for the same CBSA position under two different names and email addresses. She challenged that finding in Federal Court. The court dismissed her application, leaving the finding in place.

Roughly eleven months later, she began working inside SHAPE — NATO’s military headquarters in Belgium — after going through Canadian security screening.

So the question is simple: **Did the screening process find the Federal Court decision?**

If it did, who decided the documented finding of dishonesty wasn’t disqualifying?

If it didn’t, how did a published Federal Court judgment get missed?

In this episode, Kelsi breaks down what Belgian authorities have actually said, Zhang’s employment history, the previous fraud finding, Canada’s security-clearance process, the enormous volume of screenings handled by CSIS, and why the implications go far beyond one individual case.

This is not an episode about treating Chinese-Canadians with suspicion. It is about whether Canada’s security-screening system is doing what Canadians — and our allies — assume it does.

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