Conservative Leader Erin O’Toole under pressure to revive Canada-China committee

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Conservative foreign-affairs critic Michael Chong says the party intends to seek to bring back a special parliamentary committee that probed Canada-China relations in ‘due course’ later this year

Conservative Leader Erin O’Toole is facing pressure from a growing number of MPs who want him to reverse course and revive a special parliamentary committee that probed Canada-China relations.

He accused Mr. O’Toole of abandoning the initiative out of fear that high-profile criticism of the repression conducted by China’s ruling Communist Party was hurting Conservatives at the ballot box. “I would vote to reinstate that committee,” said Mr. Williamson, who along with Mr. Hus praised the work of the committee that probed China’s repression of its Muslim minorities and its crackdown on civil liberties and democracy in the former British colony of Hong Kong.

The committee in its short life examined the fraught relationship between China and the West but also focused on then-imprisoned Canadians Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor, and launched a demand for federal documents about the firing of two scientists from Canada’s top-security virus laboratory. “We take seriously the threats from the Communist leadership in Beijing and are committed to standing up for Canada’s national security and interest by countering these threats.”

McGill University information-warfare researchers and the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab have both documented what they characterized as disinformation attacks against Mr. Chiu on Chinese language social-media platforms widely used by Chinese-speaking Canadians. “The Parliament of Canada is a multimillion-dollar operation and I haven’t seen any [spending] limitations on a whole host of fronts and I think parliamentary committees should be the priority,” he said.

 

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