[2] Douglas Aitken of The Georgia Straight stated that the CBA was the most important organization operating in the Vancouver Chinatown in the first half of the 20th century.

[4] Wong Soon King, Lee Kee, Shum Moon, Yip Sang, Leong Suey, and Chow Tong founded the CBA in 1896.

This was done due to changing sociopolitical conditions;[9] Chinese in that period were finding a greater acceptance in mainstream society and new immigrants were not oriented to the older Chinatown organizations.

[8] In 2023, citing some CBA advertisements that favored the Hong Kong national security law, Norimitsu Onishi stated that "it has recently become a cheerleader of some of Beijing’s most controversial policies".

[4] Canadian intelligence analyst Scott McGregor and journalist Ina Mitchell referred to the CBA as a "great example of a legitimate organization that has been co-opted by the United Front.

[12] The nature and verbiage of the ads raised questions of involvement by the Chinese Communist Party's United Front Work Department and its affiliated groups.