Tories Call for Expelling Chinese Diplomat Over Targeting of MP

Conservative member of Parliament Michael Chong speaks to reporters on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on May 3, 2023. Sean Kilpatrick/The Canadian Press

The Chinese diplomat who reportedly worked to target an MP should have been expelled long ago, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre and the implicated MP said on May 3.

Poilievre said Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government knew for two years that “a foreign agent was in this country threatening the family of a Canadian MP and that he did absolutely nothing. He didn’t kick the foreign agent out. He didn’t inform the MP, he did nothing to protect the family.”