Tue May 9, 2023 – 7:44 pm EDT
OTTAWA (LifeSiteNews) – Canada’s House of Commons in a majority vote Monday passed a Conservative Party motion condemning Communist China’s “intimidation campaign” against MPs as well as calling for known “diplomats responsible” for such tactics to be expelled from the country.
Conservative Party of Canada (CPC) MP Michael Cooper’s motion titled “Interference by the People’s Republic of China” passed in a 170-150 vote. All opposition parties voted for the motion, with the Liberal Party voting against it. There were four abstentions.
Cooper’s motion called on the Liberal government of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to “stop delaying and immediately:”
(a) create a foreign agent registry similar to Australia and the United States of America;
(b) establish a national public inquiry on the matter of foreign election interference;
(c) close down the People’s Republic of China run police stations operating in Canada;
(d) expel all of the People’s Republic of China diplomats responsible for and involved in these affronts to Canadian democracy.
According to the motion text, “intimidation tactics of the People’s Republic of China are being deployed against many Canadians of Chinese descent in diaspora communities across the country, which are widely
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