Morning Update: ‘No one person’ responsible for Ottawa failing to warn Michael Chong he was being targeted, national-security adviser says


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Good morning, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s national security adviser and three deputy ministers were sent a July 2021 report outlining Chinese-state threats against Conservative MP Michael Chong, but it’s unclear if anyone read the top secret document prepared by Canada’s spy agency, MPs were told Thursday. National-security adviser Jody Thomas, who was deputy minister of National Defence in 2021, was adamant that Trudeau was unaware of the threat to the MP until The Globe and Mail revealed that Chong was a target on May 1. He was targeted by Chinese diplomat Zhao Wei, who was expelled from the country shortly...