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Some parliamentarians collaborated with China and India to further their own interests, report says

The Globe and Mail: Canadian intelligence services have gathered information indicating some federal politicians are collaborating with foreign governments to advance their own interests, a new report says.

The security and intelligence committee of parliamentarians tabled a report Monday saying that it has been told some Canadian politicians are working with India and China in what may be illegal behaviour.

“Unfortunately, the committee has also seen troubling intelligence that some Parliamentarians are, in the words of the intelligence services, ‘semi-witting or witting’ participants in the efforts of foreign states to interfere in our politics,” the National Security and Intelligence Committee of Parliamentarians (NSICOP) said in a report. It did not indicate whether these people are MPs or senators or both.

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