NDP’s Jenny Kwan says CSIS revealed China is targeting her | 24CA News
Vancouver East NDP MP Jenny Kwan mentioned Monday that Canada’s spy company knowledgeable her final week that she’s been a goal of Chinese authorities interference for years.
Speaking earlier than query interval in Ottawa on Monday, Kwan instructed reporters that the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) reached out “a couple weeks ago” to supply her a briefing on overseas interference.
Kwan mentioned she met with CSIS officers on Friday.
“CSIS has confirmed with me that I am being targeted for foreign interference and will continue to be a target,” she instructed reporters.
Kwan confirmed that CSIS instructed her the interference was on behalf of the Chinese authorities, however mentioned she couldn’t present particulars about what kind the tried affect took, citing “national security reasons.”
She mentioned the interference makes an attempt date again to the 2019 federal election however are believed to be ongoing.
Kwan mentioned she believes she and different targets — she included Conservative MP Michael Chong and “everyday Canadians” in her feedback — ought to have been made conscious of the interference makes an attempt “the minute intelligence authorities know about this.”
Kwan, the NDP’s immigration critic, mentioned she believes she has been a goal for interference on account of her advocacy for residents of Hong Kong, the place she was born.
Kwan mentioned she doesn’t have any household residing in Hong Kong or mainland China.
“I will stand firm with the people who are fighting for basic human rights, stand firm with the people of Hong Kong,” she mentioned.
“I will not be intimidated. I will not be silenced in any way. Whoever is trying to put pressure on me in whatever way they are trying to do it, they will not succeed.”
Kwan’s disclosure comes lower than every week after the federal authorities’s particular rapporteur David Johnston advisable Ottawa not transfer ahead with a public inquiry on overseas interference, however as a substitute maintain public hearings.
The NDP put ahead a movement that will probably be debated on Tuesday calling for Johnston to step apart as particular rapporteur over the “mounting appearance of bias.”
More to come back.
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