“We’re making it very, very clear to CSIS and our intelligence officials that when there are concerns that talk specifically about any MP, particularly about their family, those need to be elevated,” he said.
“If ministers of the Crown and their offices were completely unaware of this, this shows an appalling breakdown leadership on the part of the prime minister. The prime minister and the prime minister alone is responsible for the machinery of government,” said Chong.Article content Liberal MP John McKay added if CSIS or other agencies had evidence of a threat against him, “I’d like to know about it sooner rather than later.”Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre, who spoke to reporters before Trudeau’s admission, said he could not imagine the country’s national security service having information about a threat to an MP or their family and deciding to keep quiet.
As Conservatives pressed the government for more answers on Wednesday, they pointed out the testimony of a national security official at a House of Commons committee in February. Trudeau has deferred a decision about whether to hold such an inquiry to former governor general David Johnston, who was appointed as a special rapporteur to probe how Canada and its intelligence agencies have handled the problem.Article content
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