by
A report presented to MP Michael Chong by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Privy Council Office ‘contained information that I and other MPs were being targeted by the PRC (People’s Republic of China). This contradicts what the Prime Minister said yesterday.’
(LifeSiteNews) – Conservative Party of Canada MP Michael Chong revealed to the House of Commons yesterday that staff from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Privy Council Office (PCO) knew two years ago his family was the targets of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) intimidation tactics.
“Mr. Speaker, I’ve just been informed by the national security adviser that the CSIS (Canadian Security Intelligence Service) Intelligent Assessment of July 20th, 2021, was sent by CSIS to the relevant departments and to the National Security Advisor in the PCO,” Chong said.
“This report contained information that I and other MPs were being targeted by the PRC (People’s Republic of China). This contradicts what the Prime Minister (Trudeau) said yesterday. He said CSIS made the determination that it wasn’t something that needed to be raised to a higher level because it wasn’t a significant enough concern.”
Chong said that Jody Thomas, the current national security adviser to Trudeau, was the one who informed him that the CSIS assessment from July 20, 2021, was shared widely.
The bombshell revelation came despite the fact Trudeau on Wednesday claimed he did not know about the spying incident. Trudeau instead shifted the blame for Chong being in the dark by saying that CSIS is responsible for notifying MPs when they are spied on. He also claimed he did not know about the spying incident.
Trudeau then said that CSIS did not send the top-secret report about Chong up the chain of command, because the agency felt it “wasn’t a significant enough concern” and did not meet a “threshold that required them to pass it up.”
On Thursday in the House, Chong demanded that the “Prime Minister correct the record that this report and information was sent to the Departments and to the Privy Council Office.”
In response, Minister of Public Safety Marco Mendicino claimed that the Trudeau government could “assure him that, as the Prime Minister said and I said earlier this week, that we found out on Monday of this week, which is why we acted very quickly and decisively to reach out directly to the member.”
Chong was not satisfied with this answer and shot back that CSIS has been advising “the Government, the departments, the Privy Council Office, the National Security Advisor, deputy ministers, that foreign agents in Canada, foreign diplomats in Canada are presenting a threat to Canadian MPs in this House of Commons.”
“In fact, the 2022 intelligence report of CSIS today says that these threat actors ‘must be held accountable for their clandestine activities, and we also will continue to inform national security stakeholders and all Canadians about foreign interference.’ So why is the government not listening to the advice of sources and not listening to the advice in the reports that are being distributed here?” he added.