Ottawa’s recent expulsion of a Chinese diplomat for threatening the family of a Canadian MP is a rare move in recent years, despite intelligence reports of Chinese diplomats blatantly interfering in Canada’s elections and key institutions and bluntly insulting or threatening Canadians.
Amid opposition parties’ calls for action to address threats to the Hong Kong-based family of Conservative MP Michael Chong, the Liberal government on May 8 declared Chinese diplomat Zhao Wei persona non grata, a move that Beijing reciprocated a day later by expelling a Canadian diplomat.
Zhao had reportedly targeted Chong because the MP had sponsored a parliamentary motion in 2021 to declare China’s treatment of Uyghurs and other Turkic minorities a genocide….