‘What the hell is going on here?’ MPs alarmed by ‘anonymous smears’ from security establishment against MP Dong, and wonder how many other MPs are being monitored

NDP MP Charlie Angus says he wants to know why a secretly recorded conversation with MP Han Dong was leaked to the media ahead of U.S. President Joe Biden’s first official visit to Canada. Other MPs say they're now worried about being secretly monitored by CSIS.

Liberal MPs, pictured at a Hill caucus meeting on Jan. 27, 2023, are worried that it will be a challenge for them to do their jobs as MPs with the feeling that intelligence officials might be monitoring them. NDP and Green Party MPs echoed the same view.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY ABBAS RANA

April 3, 2023

Leaked information about an alleged conversation between now-Independent MP Han Dong, who recently resigned from the Liberal caucus, and a Chinese consulate official is raising alarm bells about MPs' privacy, and they want to know why Canada’s security establishment is sec...

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