Michael Chong, foreign-affairs critic, says Ottawa did not brief him on alleged threats to his family in China
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said he’s asked his officials to investigate a report in The Globe and Mail that says the Chinese government has targeted Canadian MPs behind a Parliamentary motion declaring Beijing’s oppression of Uyghurs to constitute genocide.
The spy agency said an MSS officer sought information on an unnamed Canadian MP’s relatives “who may be located in the PRC, for further potential sanctions.” This effort, the CSIS report said, “is almost certainly meant to make an example of this MP and deter others from taking anti-PRC positions.
Mr. Chong, the Conservative Party’s foreign-affairs critic, released a statement Tuesday saying Ottawa should have informed him about any threats to his family from the Chinese government. Both Mr. Chong in his statement and Mr. Poilievre in the Commons asked Mr. Trudeau why Canada has not expelled this Chinese diplomat.
“We are right now looking to establish a foreign agent registry [and] making sure through consultations with potentially impacted communities that is done the right way,” Mr. Trudeau said. It’s not known whether elected officials in Canada gained access to the report, which was produced by the agency’s Intelligence Assessment Branch and dated July 20, 2021, several weeks before the federal election campaign got under way.
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