Maybe Canadians should listen to CSIS when it talks about China

China is playing us for dupes. We need to understand that no one, and especially no state, does anything important out of altruism.
CSIS Director David Vigneault, pictured May 13, 2019, on the Hill. It should come as a shock to no one that China, and more specifically Chinese influence in Canada, has been on the CSIS radar for some time, writes Phil Gurski.

OTTAWA—CSIS rarely says a lot openly about what it knows: when it does it should be listened to. Canadians could be said to have a love-hate relationship with the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS). Wait, scratch that. A few Canadians...

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