Foreign-interference inquiry urged to set up hotline and secure reporting system to help protect diaspora communities
The foreign-interference inquiry heard a plea for federal resources and awareness campaigns to help protect 10 diaspora communities who face harassment from governments abroad.
Ms. Fung urged Canada to ban WeChat, a Chinese-language social-media application that has been weaponized to spread disinformation and whose parent company is obligated under Chinese law to share data with Beijing.Michael Chong was the target of an operation “The public must be educated on how foreign regimes use financial resources within Canada,” she said. “Awareness campaigns can help citizens understand the importance of sanctions and asset seizures as tools to safeguard democracy,” said Ms. Fard, an Iranian Canadian human-rights advocate.
Wawa Li, a second-generation Canadian from Quebec, criticized the RCMP for announcing that it was investigating the establishment of illegal Beijing-sanctioned police stations at two community centres in Montreal. Back in March, 2023, the RCMP told media it was investigating “alleged Chinese police stations in Quebec” and confirmed for journalists that these were the two community centres.
The force’s probe came amid global concerns raised by Spain-based human-rights organization Safeguard Defenders that the Chinese government was secretly operating more than 100 illegal police centres in upwards of 50 countries that it said were part of Beijing’s growing transnational repression. It said that these operations monitor Chinese diaspora communities and play a role in coercing individuals to return to the People’s Republic of China to face criminal proceedings.
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