House Affairs Committee Declines to Investigate Liberal Records Related to MP Han Dong

Han Dong, then an Ontario provincial Liberal candidate for Trinity—Spadina, at a rally with supporters in Toronto on May 22, 2014. Dong resigned from the Liberal caucus on March 22, 2023, after a Global News report alleged he had advised a Chinese diplomat that Beijing should postpone freeing two Canadians being detained in China, Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor. The Canadian Press/Nathan Denette

The House Affairs Committee has declined to investigate Liberal Party records relating to Independent MP Han Dong, who left the Liberal caucus in March after questions were raised about his contact with Chinese state officials.

According to Blacklock’s Reporter, Conservative MP Michael Cooper sponsored the motion asking that the committee order the Prime Minister’s Office and Liberal Party to surrender “all documents” related to Mr. Dong’s 2019 nomination as a Liberal MP.