CSIS must inform MPs about all threats against them, no matter how credible: Trudeau

May 3, 2023 | 7:48 AM

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says Canada’s intelligence agencies are being directed to immediately inform MPs if there are any threats against them, regardless of whether the threats are considered credible.

Trudeau says the Canadian Security Intelligence Service never told anyone about information it received concerning China threatening family members of Conservative MP Michael Chong who live in Hong Kong.

The prime minister says he only learned on Monday, after it was reported in the media, that CSIS had intelligence about such threats two years ago.

Trudeau says CSIS was asked to brief Chong at the time after China publicly said it would sanction him for criticizing Beijing’s treatment of Uyghur Muslims in China’s Xinjiang province.