Former intelligence officer calls on Canada to expel more Chinese diplomats

OTTAWA — A former intelligence officer with Canada’s spy agency is calling on the federal government to kick out more Chinese diplomats, saying they have too big a presence in the country.  

Michel Juneau-Katsuya says the Canadian Security Intelligence Service has known since the mid-1990s that Conservative and Liberal governments have been compromised by China. 

Juneau-Katsuya, testifying today at a House of Commons committee studying foreign interference, says political parties have also been compromised. 

Earlier this week, the Liberal government expelled a Chinese diplomat whom CSIS alleged was involved in a plot to intimidate a Conservative MP and his relatives in Hong Kong in 2021.