Justin Trudeaus office intervened to keep Han Dong off Canada-China committee – National [Video]

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s office intervened in 2019 to keep Han Dong off a House of Commons committee probing Canada’s relations with China, according to testimony from Trudeau’s most senior staff.

The Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) briefed security-cleared Liberal officials during the 2019 election about “irregularities” related to Dong’s nomination as the party’s candidate in Don Valley North.

Those irregularities included CSIS intelligence suggesting Chinese diplomatic officials leaned on international students to support Dong’s nomination, as well as the busing of people to the nomination meeting coerced into supporting the now-independent MP.

Documents previously published by Justice Marie-Josée Hogue’s foreign interference inquiry suggest that CSIS was aware of those “irregularities,” first reported by Global News in 2023 and had briefed senior Liberal officials about the issue in 2019.

Dong resigned from the Liberal caucus on March 22, 2023, and now sits as an independent. He has denied any wrongdoing …