Canada should do more to screen visitors from China: Former CSIS analyst

CBC: Experts and a public inquiry into foreign interference have pointed to China as one of the largest sources of transnational repression in Canada, with government agents engaging in activities like surveillance of members of the Chinese diaspora, online attacks and threats against family members back in China.

“If there are visitors coming [from] the People’s Republic of China, they should be vetted through CSIS,” Gurski told reporters on Parliament Hill on Tuesday. “It has its own intelligence sources, it has alliances with its counterparts around the world. If CSIS comes up against information that indicates somebody is not being truthful, or forthcoming, in their background or their intentions in coming to Canada, they should be denied entry.”…