Agents of communist China are targeting Canadian parliamentarians and officials with foreign interference, a House committee heard from testimonies by officials in Canadian intelligence agencies.
“We are very concerned about the targeting. We know that there is certainly a desire to target elected officials at all levels of government—municipal, provincial, federal,” Michelle Tessier, deputy director of operations for the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS), said at the House Standing Committee on Procedure and House Affairs (PROC) on Nov. 1.
Tessier was responding to questions from Conservative MP Blaine Calkins on the growing concerns about China influencing politicians and officials around the world to gain sway over the policies of foreign governments. Calkins pointed to John McCallum, Canada’s former ambassador to Beijing, who has raised controversies while defending Meng Wanzhou, executive of Chinese telecom company Huawei, who was arrested by the RCMP in 2018 on U.S. extradition request….