CSIS Warned PM’s Adviser of Beijing’s Targeting of MPs, Contradicting Adviser's, Special Rapporteur’s Accounts

Commissioner Marie-Josée Hogue, a Quebec Court of Appeal judge, is required to submit an interim report by the end of February 2024 and a final report by December 2024


A second national security adviser to the prime minister got a warning in 2021 from the nation's spy agency that Beijing was targeting MPs, a classified document obtained by The Epoch Times shows, but he didn’t brief it up. Additionally, this detail was not included in the special rapporteur's report on foreign interference.

The Epoch Times has obtained, through the access to information regime, a partly redacted Top Secret limited distribution briefing note the Canadian Security and Intelligence Service (CSIS) sent to a handful of government officials in May 2021, advising them it would conduct defensive briefings with the targeted MPs. ---More...

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