Conservative MP Michael Chong is accusing Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of using his testimony at the foreign interference inquiry to launch a partisan attack against his party.
Concerns about China’s foreign interference have intensified since the release of the National Security and Intelligence Committee of Parliamentarians (NSICOP) report in June, which said that some parliamentarians are “‘semi-witting or witting’ participants in the efforts of foreign states to interfere in our politics.”
The prime minister’s reluctance to disclose the names of parliamentarians involved in foreign interference suggests his motivation of “wanting to keep all of this secret for his own partisan purposes,” Chong, the Conservatives’ foreign affairs critic, said in an Oct. 17 interview with CBC News….