Wilful Blindness is an investigative book by controversial journalist Sam Cooper into the influence of soft power of China in Vancouver, Canada. It builds upon the alleged Project Sidewinder report from the RCMP and the CSIS and specifically focuses on "The Vancouver Model". Cooper claims that the project started during the World Expo in 1986 in Vancouver, and that the United Front Work Department, Chinese triads, and the Big Circle Boys laundered fentanyl drug money through Vancouver area casinos such as the Parq and River Rocks casino, corrupting government agencies, spies, influencers, and Canadian society. Leading to Vancouver's housing market bubble and destabilization of the western world with the opioid epidemic. Several critics questioned the factual accuracy of Cooper's work and pointed to his repeated use of sensational but often overblown and unproven propositions by unnamed sources to torque up his biased views toward matters relating to China.