There may be more 'Chinese police stations' operating in Canada, the Public Safety Minister told a Canadian TV station on Sunday, months after police said they were investigating whether two community centers in Montreal were being used to intimidate or harass Canadians of Chinese origin.
Canada's Minister of Public Safety Marco Mendicino speaks during Question Period in the House of Commons on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada November 29, 2022. REUTERS/Blair Gable/File Photo
TORONTO, May 14 - There may be more "Chinese police stations" operating in Canada, the Public Safety Minister told a Canadian TV station on Sunday, months after policethey were investigating whether two community centers in Montreal were being used to intimidate or harass Canadians of Chinese origin.
"I am confident that the [Royal Canadian Mounted Police] have taken concrete action to disrupt any foreign interference in relationship to those so-called police stations, and that if new police stations are popping up and so on, that they will continue to take decisive action going forward,"In March Canadian police said they were investigating the centers in Montreal.
the centers were operating normally, despite the minister's statements that all secret stations in Canada have been shut.Mendicino's comments follows tit-for-tat diplomatic expulsions by Ottawa and Beijing.Chinese diplomat Zhao Wei after an intelligence report accused him of trying to target a Canadian lawmaker critical of China's treatment of its Uyghur Muslim minority.
Trudeau has said China attempted to meddle in the 2019 and 2021 votes but that did not change the outcome.Reporting by Anna Mehler Paperny; editing by Grant McCool
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