A Canadian entrepreneur is suing the Ontario Securities Commission (OSC) for violating his Charter rights by cooperating with China—a “known human rights abuser”—when it signed an agreement to investigate him with the country’s Ministry of Public Safety (MPS) in 2017.
In the lawsuit, which was filed in the Ontario Superior Court, Edward Gong claims the OSC’s decision to use tainted evidence and share information on him and his company with the MPS was “unabated, unregulated and unlimited in scope and use.”
Gong, who lived in Canada for more than two decades before becoming a Canadian citizen in 2008, alleges in the claim the OSC treated him “as though he belonged to China, instead of recognizing his rights as a citizen of Canada.”…