Canada lags behind its peers on foreign interference legislation: former CSIS officer

China’s involvement in Canadian politics has been going on for decades, sometimes in subtle ways, says former senior intelligence CSIS officer Michel Juneau-Katsuya, who served as chief of the agency's Asia-Pacific division.

Intergovernmental Affairs Minister Dominic LeBlanc, left, Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly, and Jody Thomas, the prime minister's national security adviser, have been summoned to appear before the House Affairs Committee over their knowledge of China's interference in the 2019 federal election. The Hill Times photographs by Andrew Meade

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BY CHRISTOPHER GULY

November 21, 2022

Global News reporter Sam Cooper dropped a bombshell on Parliament Hill earlier this month when he reported that Canadian Security Intelligence Service officials warned the prime minister and several cabinet ministers in January about “a vast campaign of foreign interferenc...

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