Two Montreal-area community groups under investigation for allegedly hosting secret Chinese government police stations say they continue to operate normally, contradicting claims by the public safety minister that all the clandestine stations in Canada have been shut.
The two groups—Service à la Famille Chinoise du Grand Montréal, based in the city’s Chinatown district, and Centre Sino-Québec de la Rive-Sud, in the Montreal suburb of Brossard, Que.—say the RCMP has taken no action against them.
“We have not received any closure requests from the RCMP,” they said Friday in a joint statement. “Our activities are proceeding normally.” They added that they had lost funding, however, following media coverage of the RCMP allegations….