Inquiry hears Trudeau government went public with allegations that Indian agents orchestrated the killing of Hardeep Singh Nijjar after Globe report
David Morrison , Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, appears as a witness with representatives from Global Affairs Canada at the Foreign Interference Commission in Ottawa , on Oct. 4.and India as it was confronted with revelations in The Globe and Mail and by a human-rights group about the targeting of MPs, the operation of illegal Chinese police stations and the slaying of a Canadian Sikh activist, the Hogue inquiry heard Friday.
“After The Globe article, it was quite evident that Mr. Zhao Wei’s position in Canada was untenable,” he said. “That piece of intelligence was of a higher level of classification,” Global Affairs official Philippe Lafortune testified. “It was completing the picture about how Zhao Wei functioned.” Mr. Morrison also said that while China worked hard to defeat the 2021 House of Commons motion condemning Beijing’s repression of Uyghurs as genocide, he does not believe China’s actions on this constituted foreign interference, but rather a legitimate diplomatic campaign.
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