Michael Chong calls for overhauls in wake of foreign interference bombshell.
Conservative MP Michael Chong said the unauthorized intelligence leak is “injurious” to confidence in Canada among its Five Eyes intelligence-sharing allies and it would not have happened if the system was “functioning properly.” | Spencer Colby/THE CANADIAN PRESSOTTAWA — The Canadian member of Parliament allegedly targeted by a Chinese diplomat in a foreign meddling scheme said his story illustrates how the country’s national security system is malfunctioning.
“The last several weeks have been a trying time for me and my family,” Chong told a parliamentary hearing, but added his case is only one among an unquantifiable number of Canadians who have “suffered in silence” under threat from foreign governments. The saga ensued in the wake of an incredibly rare Canadian intelligence leak to the Globe and Mail newspaper, which revealed Canada is a high-priority target of Beijing and that Chong was targeted. Chong had notably sponsored a motion in 2021 decrying China’s abuses of the Uyghur Muslim minority population as a genocide.
Chong rattled off a list of ways to fix the problem, including looking to “best practices” from the U.S. and the U.K.on the case before it went public, and said Canada’s spy agency should have warned Chong sooner.with parliamentarians under threat.
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