Special Rapporteur David Johnston says the Liberal government didn’t negligently fail to act on intelligence regarding the threat of foreign interference, but he highlighted problems surrounding the dissemination of intelligence within the state machinery. “There are serious shortcomings in the way intelligence is communicated and processed from security agencies through to government,” he wrote in…

Beijing has more diplomats in the city of Montreal than in all of France, while Canada hosts just 23 fewer Chinese diplomats than the United States, according to recent figures from Global Affairs Canada (GAC). In a report titled “Diplomatic, Consular & Other Representatives In Canada,” GAC listed all active foreign diplomats in the country…

Commentary The Trudeau administration finally, grudgingly expelled one communist Chinese diplomat for trying to subvert our democracy. But they sure didn’t look serious about it, which is asking for trouble. I’m not even talking here about their determined efforts not to realize it was happening. But with the prime minister insisting that reports never left…

Commentary The Liberal government finally expelled Chinese consulate official Zhao Wei last week when it became virtually impossible not to. With mounting evidence that Zhao had put the family of Conservative MP Michael Chong under surveillance in Hong Kong, even Prime Minister Justin Trudeau understood he needed to do something to indicate Canada’s official diplomatic…

Following a report that Canada’s spy agency had tracked since 2019 a now-expelled Chinese diplomat who was spying on dissident groups, Liberal MP John McKay said these activities could be just the tip of the iceberg. “I don’t think I know the extent that the Chinese are just ripping us off and manipulating us,” McKay…

Opposition MPs are again asking why expelled Chinese diplomat Zhao Wei wasn’t sent packing sooner, given new revelations that the federal government knew for several years he was spying on Chinese dissidents in Canada, on top of targeting Conservative MP Michael Chong. “For three years, this government knew that a diplomat in Beijing’s Toronto consulate was…

Conservative MP Michael Cooper has tabled a lengthy motion in committee to investigate Beijing’s alleged targeting of his colleague MP Michael Chong, while seeking to invite the Chinese ambassador to Canada to testify. “This motion arises from a question of privilege on a matter that is about as serious as it gets,” said Cooper, presenting…

Conservative MP Michael Cooper has tabled a lengthy motion in committee to investigate Beijing’s targeting of his colleague MP Michael Chong, while seeking to invite the Chinese ambassador to Canada to testify. “This motion arises from a question of privilege on a matter that is about as serious as it gets,” said Cooper, presenting his…

A Liberal MP says he is expecting more Chinese diplomats to be expelled from Canada after the recent expulsion of Zhao Wei, who was reportedly involved in targeting Conservative MP Michael Chong and threatening his family members in Hong Kong. “These people bear no relationship to diplomats,” said John McKay, also chair of the Standing…

MPs in the House of Commons have voted unanimously in favour of a motion to begin a committee investigation into the alleged targeting in 2021 of Conservative MP Michael Chong and his family living in Hong Kong by a now-expelled Chinese diplomat. The motion, which was introduced by Conservative MP Michael Chong earlier this week,…