CSIS responsible for decision not to inform government or MP about China’s targeting of him, Trudeau says


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Canadian Security Intelligence Service director David Vigneault waits to testify before a committee in Ottawa in April 2019.CHRIS WATTIE Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says Canada’s spy service is responsible for the decision to not inform Conservative MP Michael Chong in 2021 that he and his family were being targeted by the Chinese government after he led an effort for a Parliamentary motion that condemned Beijing’s treatment of Uyghurs as genocide. The Prime Minister on Wednesday told media he didn’t know about the targeting of Mr. Chong until The Globe and Mail reported Monday on a 2021 top secret assessment by...