For the first time, Canada’s spy agency warns individual lawmakers and senators from all major parties of “influencing efforts” by China and other rival states.
The Canadian Security Intelligence Agency (CSIS) has expressed concern about China and its influencers’ efforts to cultivate “secret relations with elected officials in order to gain influence in parliamentary debates and government decisions”.
John Townsend, a spokesman for CSIS, told The Globe and Mail that “the agency’s staff is informing MPs, telling them to beware of foreign influence and interference.”
CSIS is providing these updates to raise awareness of the country’s agents about “foreign intervention and the actions of other hostile agents and to strengthen individual security practices and protect Canadians and their interests.”
Mr Townsend declined to say who informed the CSIS, but a senior government official said in the past that the spy had a list of lawmakers and senators he believed knew Chinese “influencers”.
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