Evening Update: Trudeau says CSIS responsible for not informing MP about China’s targeting of him


Source: theglobeandmail.com theglobeandmail.com

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Good evening, let’s start with today’s top stories: Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says Canada’s spy service is responsible for the decision not to 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. Trudeau said he didn’t know about the threat until The Globe and Mail reported on a 2021 top-secret assessment by the Canadian Security Intelligence Service. Security experts said it’s hard to imagine intelligence assessments of the kind The Globe has reported...