Previously unreported details of how Ottawa dealt with illegal Chinese police stations have been disclosed at the Foreign Interference Commission, showing how Beijing said it had closed the stations when that wasn’t necessarily the case.
A summary of government intelligence and diplomatic information on Chinese overseas police stations was entered as evidence on Oct. 3 at the commission, which is currently examining Ottawa’s capacity to counter foreign interference.
The summary explains how, after Spanish NGO Safeguard Defenders published a report on the topic in September 2022, subsequent investigation by authorities confirmed the existence of illegal Chinese police stations in Canada.
RCMP officials testified at the inquiry on Oct. 3. Deputy Commissioner Mark Flynn declined to say whether the force was aware of the presence of the stations before the NGO’s report….