Thu May 4, 2023 – 8:49 pm EDT
OTTAWA (LifeSiteNews) – Conservative Party of Canada leader Pierre Poilievre had his microphone abruptly cut off by Speaker of the House Anthony Rota on Tuesday after he demanded an emergency debate be held to investigate why one of his MPs was being targeted by agents of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).
Rota, who has been a Liberal MP for decades, rejected an emergency debate be held, saying, “I do not want to enter into an argument here.”
Poilievre wanted the House to discuss why one of his MPs, Michael Chong, was kept in the dark from both the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) and the Trudeau government about the fact he and his family were the targets of spying and intimidation tactics by agents of the CCP, as per a top-secret report.
Conservative MP and former party leader Andrew Scheer said that the issue was “pressing.”
“Beijing has sought and continues to seek to influence and intimidate Canadian citizens,” he added.
Scheer went on to note that “Beijing’s intimidation tactics are not limited to Members of Parliament but are being deployed against many Canadians of Chinese descent in
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