By Cosmin Dzsurdzsa
Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino has conceded that there could be more Chinese police stations operating in Canada, despite claiming last month that they had all been shut down by the RCMP.
Mendicino made the admission on CTV’s Question Period on Sunday, when he was asked about the reports that the stations in question continue to exist.
“I am confident that the RCMP have taken concrete action to disrupt any foreign interference in relationship to those so-called police stations, and that if new police stations are popping up and so on, that they will continue to take decisive action going forward,” said Mendicino.
“Our expectation is that if those activities manifest, if there is foreign interference, that yes, the RCMP will take decisive action as they have in the past.”
The allegations of the Chinese police stations first surfaced earlier this year, based on a report by a Spanish human rights organization called Safeguard Defenders.