MPs call for hearings on Chinese hack targeting legislators, lack of warning from Ottawa


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Open this photo in gallery: Conservative MP Garnett Genuis asked Commons Speaker Greg Fergus on Monday to consider whether parliamentary privileges have been breached both by the fact that Chinese hackers targeted the MPs and that the Canadian government failed to notify them.Adrian Wyld/The Canadian Press Members of Parliament who say they were not informed by Ottawa that they had been targeted by hackers tied to the Chinese government are seeking House of Commons hearings on the matter. As The Globe and Mail first reported Monday, Canadian MPs and senators who belong to a global interparliamentary organization critical of the...