Recent news that a Chinese diplomat had threatened a Canadian MP’s family in Hong Kong highlights the potential for more severe actions against the general Chinese-Canadian population and dissidents by the Chinese Communist Party, warns the leader of a rights advocacy group.
Conservative MP Michael Chong said on Twitter on May 1 that he was “profoundly disappointed” to have learned about the threats against his relatives in Hong Kong from the media, and not from the government or security agencies.
According to a Globe and Mail article citing a 2021 top-secret report from the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS), China’s intelligence service has taken actions to target Canadian MPs involved in a parliamentary motion that condemned Beijing’s abuse of Uyghurs in China’s Xinjiang Province, and this included seeking information about one MP’s relatives in China. A national security source told the Globe that the MP being targeted was Michael Chong….