Minister Blair Blames CSIS for Not Briefing Him on Beijing Threats to MPs

Minister Blair Blames CSIS for Not Briefing Him on Beijing Threats to MPs
President of the King's Privy Council for Canada and Minister of Emergency Preparedness Bill Blair speaks with reporters as he arrives for a caucus meeting on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on June 22, 2022. Patrick Doyle/The Canadian Press
Noé Chartier
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Emergency Preparedness Minister Bill Blair says Canada’s spy agency is to blame for not briefing him on Chinese regime threats to MPs in 2021.

Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) Director David Vigneault, “determined this was not information that the minister needed to know, and so I was never notified of the existence of that intelligence, nor was it ever shared with me,” Blair told the House of Commons Standing Committee on Procedure and House Affairs on June 1.

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Noé Chartier is a senior reporter with the Canadian edition of The Epoch Times. Twitter: @NChartierET
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