Deputy mayor of Markham, Ont., and former Ontario cabinet minister Michael Chan visited China recently to meet with representatives of the United Front Work Department—an agency described as having “a leading role” in foreign interference and as one of Beijing’s “magic weapons” to further the regime’s priorities abroad.
That description comes from a CSIS intelligence assessment declassified as part of Canada’s recent foreign interference inquiry. National security experts in the United States, Australia, and other places have also long flagged the UFWD as a threat.
