EDITORIAL: Buck stops with PM on foreign interference cdnpoli
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So why is the Trudeau government only now talking about expelling Chinese diplomats who engage in such activities, in the wake of areport that China was looking to silence Conservative MP Michael Chong by threatening his extended family in Hong Kong? In 2019, a committee of parliamentarians from all parties appointed by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau himself to advise him on national security issues, warned him that Beijing’s dictators weren’t just trying to co-opt federal politicians during federal elections.
The targets, it said, were politicians of all stripes as well as public officials — anyone who might have influence on government decisions regarding China.Trudeau ignored those warnings from the National Security and Intelligence Committee of Parliamentarians four years ago, even though he created it and gave its members access to top-secret classified documents and confidential briefings with Canada’s security and intelligence officials.
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