Brad West, mayor of Port Coquitlam, B.C., says he was informed by Canada’s intelligence agency in 2022 that it was aware of efforts by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to recruit a candidate to run against him in that year’s municipal election.
Following his victory in the 2018 municipal election, Mr. West, a fierce critic of the Chinese regime’s human rights violations and hostage diplomacy, was re-elected mayor in 2022. In an interview with The Epoch Times on Aug. 23, he said the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) had approached him in September 2022 to alert him of being a target of the Chinese regime.
