Canada expelled a Chinese diplomat who allegedly sought to target Canadian lawmaker Michael Chong and his Hong Kong-based relatives over Chong’s support for a parliamentary motion that called Beijing’s treatment of its Uyghur minority a “genocide.”
TORONTO — Canada on Monday expelled a Chinese diplomat in Toronto who allegedly sought to target Canadian lawmaker Michael Chong and his Hong Kong-based relatives over Chong’s support for a parliamentary motion that called Beijing’s treatment of its Uyghur minority a “genocide.”“Canada has decided to declare persona non grata Mr. Zhao Wei,” Mélanie Joly, Canada’s foreign minister, said in a statement.
The top-secret report said the aim of the effort was “almost certainly … to make an example of this MP and deter others from taking anti-PRC positions.” An unnamed national security source told the newspaper Chong was the lawmaker and Zhao was the Chinese officer involved in the effort.Chong on Monday said that it shouldn’t have taken so long for the government to boot Zhao.
Chong told Parliament that he was advised by Trudeau’s national security and intelligence adviser that CSIS had shared the report with her predecessor and “relevant departments,” but not with the prime minister.Advertisement The reports, citing leaked intelligence documents, allege that China wanted to ensure that Trudeau’s Liberals were reelected with a minority government — an outcome that analysts have said would be difficult to orchestrate.
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