International Trade Minister Mary Ng is dismissing allegations made against her regarding Chinese interference.
“I want to tell Canadians that I am a loyal Canadian,” Ng told reporters before entering Parliament Hill on Oct. 31.
Ng made the comments after Independent MP Kevin Vuong held a press conference with investigative journalist Sam Cooper on Oct. 28. Cooper said intelligence sources he has spoken to identified Ng as having “unwittingly” received backing from China in a previous election. The Epoch Times has not seen documents or spoken to the sources related to this allegation.
Cooper, a former Global News reporter, was the first to report in November 2022 when he was still with the outlet on leaked bombshell intelligence about Beijing’s meddling in Canada’s democracy. He reported that Beijing had funded a “clandestine network of at least 11 federal candidates running in the 2019 election.”…