The Prime Minister’s Office blocked former Liberal MP Han Dong from sitting on the Commons Canada-China committee in 2019 after intelligence officials raised concerns about his actions, a senior official testified at the foreign interference inquiry.
Brian Clow, deputy chief of staff to the prime minister, told the Foreign Interference Commission that around December 2019, Dong’s name was proposed for membership on the Commons Canada-China committee. He said that “because of the concerns that officials had raised, PMO intervened and Mr. Dong was not appointed.”
Clow’s testimony was released by the commission on Oct. 16, along with testimony from other senior staff in the PMO….