MPs call for hearings on Chinese hack targeting legislators, lack of warning from Ottawa

Conservative MP Garnett Genuis asked Commons Speaker Greg Fergus on Monday to consider whether parliamentary privileges have been breached both by the fact that Chinese hackers targeted the MPs and that the Canadian government failed to notify them.Members of Parliament who say they were not informed by Ottawa that they had been targeted by hackers tied to the Chinese government are seeking House of Commons hearings on the matter.

Mr. Genuis told the Commons that if parliamentarians had been informed, they could have taken extra precautions to protect the security of their personal and parliamentary e-mail accounts. He noted that it was only one year ago that Canada learned the government had failed to inform Conservativethat in 2021 he and his relatives were being targeted by China after he led a campaign to condemn Beijing in the Commons for its repression of Uyghurs.

Ms. Sgro, a Liberal MP who was targeted, rose in the Commons Monday to speak in support of Mr. Genuis. “CSIS does not have an appropriate disclosure regime to sensitize parliamentarians unless it involves physical threats,” said Mr. Stanton, director of the national security program at the University of Ottawa. “And if the information emanates from a third party – an allied service, for example – it is more challenging. Disclosures to parliamentarians, universities and local law enforcement remain off-limits until the legislation changes.

Jean-Sébastien Comeau, a spokesman for Mr. LeBlanc, said the government had consulted on legislative changes to keep up with the “evolution of the threat posed by foreign interference” and would be “proposing legislative amendments to Parliament soon.”

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