If the federal government can push to remove one foreign state broadcaster, it can do so for others, argues the Conservative foreign affairs critic.
At the Special Committee on Canada-China relations in Ottawa Monday evening, Michael Chong grilled Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino on why state-owned Chinese broadcasters are still available in Canada, despite being removed in other countries over concerns about disinformation and human-rights abuses.
Safeguard Defenders’ complaint — against China Global Television Network , a news channel which broadcasts in English, and China Central Television-4 , a variety channel broadcasting in Mandarin — has still not been resolved. It ultimately seeks to have CGTN pulled from Canadian television. “As you well know, this is an administrative body that enjoys independence, that makes decisions that are based on the merits and the law,” Mendicino said. “As a government we endeavour to respect the independence of those bodies rather than politicize those decisions.”
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