CSIS had kept tabs on expelled Chinese diplomat for 3 years
The Canadian Security Intelligence Service has a significant counterintelligence file on Chinese consulate official Zhao Wei, and since 2020 has shared that information with Global Affairs Canada, the department with the authority to expel foreign representatives for engaging in non-diplomatic activities, according to two national security sources.
A person who is close to Ms. Ng said the minister’s assistant likely met Mr. Zhao at Chinese-Canadian community events, which are frequented by China’s consular officials. The Globe is not naming the person, who was not permitted to discuss the matter publicly. Dan Stanton, a former manager in counterintelligence at CSIS who is now the director of the national security program at the University of Ottawa’s Professional Development Institute, said CSIS would have reported the information on Mr. Zhao’s activitiesGlobal Affairs “needs to know who does what in Canada,” Mr. Stanton said. “And if the person is deemed a national security threat, they would know that. Whether they react to the reporting or read it is their business.
Conservative MP Michael Cooper said the government should have expelled Mr. Zhao well before this week. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who has been criticized for being slow to act against Chinese interference in Canada’s democracy, has said CSIS failed to brief him about the targeting of Mr. Chong. Mr. Trudeau has said he will require the spy agency to share this type of information with him in the future.Mr. Zhao has until Saturday to depart for China.
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