Canada's foreign minister said Thursday the country is considering the expulsion of Chinese diplomats over an intelligence agency report saying one of them plotted to intimidate the Hong Kong relatives of a Canadian lawmaker.
“If we do not take this course of action we are basically putting up a giant billboard for all authoritarian states around world that says we are open to foreign interference targeting Canadian citizens. That’s why this individual needs to be sent packing.”
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Wednesday that he had only learned of the spy agency report after a Globe and Mail article on Monday, citing top-secret documents, said the spy agency had the intelligence. Trudeau has ordered
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