OTTAWA — Foreign Affairs Minister Melanie Joly is proposing the National Security and Intelligence Committee of Parliamentarians study allegations that Canada…
Joly raised the possibility of the study while appearing at the House of Commons foreign affairs committee today, where MPs were focused on Canada’s decision to return a turbine for a Russian state-owned pipeline that supplies natural gas to Germany.
Citing three unnamed diplomatic sources described as having direct knowledge of the situation, the newspaper reported that the department instructed embassy leaders in Kyiv to withhold the information from Ukrainian employees — even as the Canadians were recalled to Ottawa.Article content She says she will make herself available to the national security committee, which consists of senators and MPs with top security clearances, if they decide to take up the issue.Joly also told MPs that Canada had been “preoccupied” by intelligence the United States made public earlier this year that said Russia planned to target specific Ukrainians during an invasion.
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