Man Sues Ontario Securities Commission for Violating His Charter Rights by Cooperating With China

Man Sues Ontario Securities Commission for Violating His Charter Rights by Cooperating With China
The Ontario Securities Commission in Toronto in a file photo. CP Photo/Aaron Harris
Matthew Horwood
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A Canadian entrepreneur is suing the Ontario Securities Commission (OSC) for violating his Charter rights by cooperating with China—a “known human rights abuser”—when it signed an agreement to investigate him with the country’s Ministry of Public Safety (MPS) in 2017.

In the lawsuit, which was filed in the Ontario Superior Court, Edward Gong claims the OSC’s decision to use tainted evidence and share information on him and his company with the MPS was “unabated, unregulated and unlimited in scope and use.”