Sen. Don Plett on Tuesday questioned the Liberal government’s representative in the Senate, Sen. Marc Gold, as to why “illegal Chinese police stations,” two more of which were identified in Canada by a new report, are still being allowed to operate unimpeded.
“Your government has told us that it is taking the matter seriously and investigating,” Plett, a Conservative senator and leader of the opposition in the Senate, said during the Senate’s question period on Dec. 6. “Why then are we having to find out what is happening in our own country from an organization operating overseas?”
Plett was referring to the report “Patrol and Persuade” published on Dec. 5 by the Spain-based human rights NGO Safeguard Defenders, which found two additional unofficial police stations being operated in Canada and a total of 48 more outposts across the world….