Senior RCMP officials told a House of Commons committee on June 13 that the force has shut down the operations of several locations across Canada that were reported to be secret Chinese police stations.
“Based on the work that’s done, the overt action that the RCMP has taken on the multiple sites, we are comfortable based on the criminal intelligence that we have that the activities in the specific areas have shut down,” Acting Commissioner Michael Duheme testified at the House of Commons Standing Committee on Procedure and House Affairs (PROC) on June 13.
Duheme stood by his statements when Conservative MP Michael Cooper questioned their seeming contradiction to the testimony from Jody Thomas, national security and intelligence adviser to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. On June 1, Thomas testified at the PROC that the government is aware of activities at two alleged Chinese police stations in Quebec and that “work is being done to ensure that they cease to operate.”…