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Originally Posted by opendoor
Isn't this news from O'Toole's camp? Why are you talking like it's another CSIS leak? O'Toole was briefed on Friday and then his camp told the media later that day.
And I'm not sure where you're getting the idea that the report said only one other MP was targeted. From the report:
Unless you're thinking the "both" refers to only 2 MPs? It doesn't; it refers to MPs as well as their families.
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I am talking about this which was also reported by Global News. Seriously, you are deliberately showing a particularly naïve and uninspired partisan stance here unlike you.
https://globalnews.ca/news/9721015/j...gence-sharing/
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In addition to the memorandum in question, CSIS sent an issues management note (IMU) to the then Minister of Public Safety, his Chief of Staff, and his Deputy Minister in May 2021, noting that there was intelligence that the PRC intended to target Mr. Chong, another MP, and their family in China (if any). It indicated that CSIS intended to provide Mr. Chong and the other MP with a defensive briefing.
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As for the source, this is verbatim what is reported.
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China targeted former Conservative leader Erin O’Toole during his 2021 election campaign, a source close to the sitting MP alleged to Global News.
O’Toole was briefed Friday by the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) on the matter, according to the source, who Global News is not naming as they are not authorized to speak publicly on the matter.
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Whether that source is a buddy of O'Toole, a CSIS operative, or a fellow MP is not stated at all. What we do not however is that CSIS briefed O'Toole on Friday,
after the David Johnston Report, that he was a target in the past and present.
Regardless of how you want to deflect the news, CSIS (whether officially or through a leak) has briefed O'Toole of being targeted on Friday, a shocking revelation that either Johnston deliberately omitted or missed due to gross incompetence. Whether the argument, it's quite clear that CSIS, regardless of the leak, is working contrary to Liberal government wishes if it divulged such a shocking revelation days after the report and at the start of a weekend.
How can you accept his report for face value when it failed to identify a potential PM candidate as target of foreign interference?
The public inquiry must be had.