Special Rapporteur David Johnston’s intent to hold public hearings with the diaspora on the issue of foreign interference shows a lack of understanding of the targeted communities, a China expert told a House of Commons committee today.
“He’s not got a deep China experience, or a deep security experience to bring to it. He looked at it for two months, and in that two months he concluded that there should be public hearings of the diaspora,” said Margaret McCuaig-Johnston on May 30.
“So he doesn’t understand the diaspora would never want that. And so that suggests that he doesn’t have that understanding of what’s happening, the dynamic that’s happening in the communities out there of Chinese Canadians.”…