CSIS director David Vigneault testified before the Commons procedure and House affairs committee Tuesday
Mr. Vigneault said CSIS never told Mr. Chong of the targeting by China because the service was constrained in what it could tell him because of secrecy requirements.
He said intelligence information is brought to the attention of the minister only if the director of CSIS determines the minister needs to see it. The CSIS director said he was limited in what he could say in a public setting, but he noted that the intelligence shared with Mr. O’Toole included intelligence that is still being verified, while the information shared with Mr. Johnston was only what has been verified. He suggested that information shared with Mr. Johnston had a higher level of certainty.
“It was not a memorandum for action. It was a report for awareness,” Mr. Morrison, now deputy minister of foreign affairs, told the committee hearing.
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