The decision not to warn Conservative MP Michael Chong on efforts of the Chinese regime to target his family was made by the spy agency, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on May 3.
Trudeau said the information collected on the issue by the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) was never briefed out of the agency and that he only learned about it from the media this week.
“CSIS made the determination that it wasn’t something that needed to be raised to a higher level because it wasn’t a significant enough concern,” he told reporters in Ottawa.
Trudeau said CSIS decided to instead provide a generic defensive briefing on China. Chong says he has been briefed on foreign interference but not on the specific threats against him or his family….