Poilievre demands Trudeau expel Chinese diplomat involved in alleged threats to Tory MP's family

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre demanded that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau expel a Chinese diplomat who was involved, according to reporting by The Globe and Mail, in an alleged plan to target Conservative MP Michael Chong and his family.

The Globe and Mail cited a top-secret document and an anonymous national security source in its report that China’s intelligence service sought to target the MP and his family and that a Chinese diplomat who remains in Canada was involved.

Chong, a former cabinet minister who currently serves as the Tories’ foreign affairs critic, voted in favour of a motion that condemned as genocide China’s treatment of its minority Uyghur population.

Trudeau said it was “absolutely unacceptable” for a Canadian to “threatened by a foreign power” and said he had asked officials to follow up on the reports and to reach out to Chong.

“Members of Parliament can’t vote in the interest of Canada while their family members are threatened as consequence of those votes,” Poilievre said, adding that Trudeau’s government had produced a briefing note two years ago on the threats Chong and his family faced.

“The same diplomat that orchestrated these threats against the MPs family still works in the Toronto consulate of Beijing… will he expel him today?” he asked.

Chong has said that he and his family were never briefed by the Canadian Security Intelligence Service and that he believes Trudeau’s government never authorized such a warning.

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