Prime Minister Mark Carney said he discussed the issue of foreign interference when he met Chinese leader Xi Jinping during their first formal meeting at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum in South Korea on Oct. 31.
“We had a discussion on foreign interference,” Carney told reporters during a press conference the next day before leaving the summit in Gyeongju.
The prime minister was asked by a reporter at the Nov. 1 press conference if he brought up the issue with Xi, as neither Ottawa’s nor Beijing’s readout of the Oct. 31 meeting mentioned human rights abuses such as the Uyghur detention camps, Canada’s national security concerns about China’s transnational repression, or the regime’s meddling in Canadian elections….