Morning Update: Trudeau calls out CSIS for not informing MP Chong about being target of China


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Good morning, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is blaming Canada’s spy agency for not informing Conservative MP Michael Chong that he and his family were being targeted by China after he spearheaded a parliamentary motion that condemned Beijing’s treatment of its Uyghur minority. In its explanation of the matter, he said, CSIS didn’t send the report up the chain of authority because it felt this “wasn’t a significant enough concern.” Security experts said it’s difficult to understand why intelligence assessments of this kind would not be flagged for the Prime Minister’s national-security adviser, the RCMP and other government departments. Conservative MP...