A former mayor of Vancouver says national intelligence officials came to warn him about Chinese interference before the 2022 municipal election because the information wasn’t getting through to authorities at “upper levels.”
Kennedy Stewart told CTV’s Vassy Kapelos that a senior official at the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) and one of its China specialists briefed him last May on foreign interference, and when he asked why they came to warn him, the officials said it was “because there was information that they had that wasn’t getting through to upper levels, and they thought it was important that people knew what was happening or at least had some sense that something was happening.”
