Contradicts Prime Minister’s explanation of events
Contrary to what Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has said, a 2021 intelligence report about an MP being targeted by China was circulated beyond the Canadian Security Intelligence Service and reached the PM’s national-security adviser.
Mr. Chong told the House of Commons Thursday that Ms. Thomas informed him the 2021 CSIS report went to various points in government including the national-security adviser at the time. CSIS “didn’t feel that it reached a threshold that required them to pass it up — up out of CSIS,” Mr. Trudeau said Wednesday.“I’ve just been informed by the national security adviser that the CSIS intelligence assessment of July 20, 2021, was sent by CSIS to the relevant departments and to the national-security adviser in the Privy Council Office,” he saidEarlier Thursday in Beijing, China’s Foreign Ministry played down allegations of China trying to intimidate Chong and his relatives.
Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino, responding to Mr. Chong, said neither he nor the Prime Minister knew of this targeting by China until Monday. The spy agency said an MSS officer sought information on an unnamed Canadian MP’s relatives “who may be located in the PRC, for further potential sanctions.” This effort, the CSIS report said, “is almost certainly meant to make an example of this MP and deter others from taking anti-PRC positions.”
Mr. Chong has said, and repeated Thursday, that the briefings on foreign interference were general in nature and never mentioned the threat against him and his family.
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