Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino told reporters on May 3 that he and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau only learned of Beijing’s targeting of Conservative MP Michael Chong and his family from media reports on the issue earlier this week.
Mendicino’s comments on the matter come a day after he was asked multiple times in the House of Commons about the date that he learned about the threats but would not give an exact answer.
“First thing I want to do is reiterate that we take any threats around foreign interference very seriously, which is why as soon as I became aware of this specific threat in relationship to Mr. Chong that we reached out to him,” Mendicino told reporters in Ottawa on May 3….