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• One might presume this confers some obligation on the government to inform Canadians if their relations living abroad are threatened by a foreign state.
• Two years ago, Ottawa had intelligence indicating that relatives of Conservative MP Michael Chong, who were living in Hong Kong, might be targeted for reprisal by the Chinese government.
• This was in retaliation for Chong sponsoring a parliamentary motion condemning Beijing for its treatment of the Uighur minority.

CSIS admonished

• As a result, Chong was unaware of the threat to his family until the intelligence was leaked last week.
• Trudeau has admonished CSIS for failing to inform the government properly.
• He says he has now instructed Canada’s spy agency to bring any intelligence on threats to MPs to his attention.
• How should this matter have been handled if the government did take its national security obligations seriously?

Regular meetings with CSIS director

• The solicitor general was responsible for and accountable to Parliament for CSIS.
• In those days, the CSIS director met regularly, if not weekly when the House of Commons was sitting, with the solicitor general, who was Liberal Herb Gray at the time.
• These are the types of meetings in which intelligence like the alleged targeting of Chong should have been clearly shared with the minister — not buried in a memo circulating among national security officials, but rather in a verbal briefing between CSIS and its minister.

Oath of secrecy

• He is the foreign affairs critic for the Official Opposition, a former minister of the Crown and a Privy Councillor.
• Chong’s Privy Council oath of secrecy could have been invoked to ensure confidentiality.
• Vincent Rigby, Trudeau’s national security adviser, retired in June 2021 and was not replaced until January 2022.

Too easy to blame CSIS

• That means the position of National Security and Intelligence Advisor to the prime minister was a part-time gig for seven months.
• It’s easy to blame CSIS in this episode.
• But a serious national security culture comes from the top down, not from the intelligence agencies under the control of the federal government.

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