An intelligence expert with hands-on experience in countering threats from hostile state actors told MPs Canada doesn’t need a public inquiry into foreign interference, rather it needs a completely new independent body with powers to arrest and prosecute those involved.
Michel Juneau-Katsuya, a former manager with the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS), presented the idea during a meeting of the House of Commons ethics committee on March 31.
He said such a body is needed because every shade of government has been penetrated by Chinese agents and that neither CSIS nor the RCMP have been able to stop the threat.
“Every prime minister and their staff chose to ignore the seriousness of the threat, not only the sitting government has been compromised, but all political parties also have been compromised at one point or another,” said Juneau-Katsuya….