Former Conservative leader Erin O’Toole says Canada’s spy agency told him he has been an ongoing target of a Chinese government campaign of misinformation and “voter suppression” that covered the last federal election campaign.
Rising on a question of privilege in the House of Commons on Tuesday, O’Toole said he received a briefing from the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) on Friday.
The Ontario MP said he was informed that Beijing has been targeting him for “years.”
“The CSIS briefing confirmed to me what I suspected for quite some time. That my parliamentary caucus and myself were the target of a sophisticated misinformation and
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