House Affairs Committee Declines to Investigate Liberal Records Related to MP Han Dong

The House Affairs Committee has declined to investigate Liberal Party records relating to Independent MP Han Dong, who left the Liberal caucus in March after questions were raised about his contact with Chinese state officials. According to Blacklock’s Reporter, Conservative MP Michael Cooper sponsored the motion asking that the committee order the Prime Minister’s Office and Liberal Party to surrender “all documents” related to Mr. Dong’s 2019 nomination as a Liberal MP. In March, Global News alleged in an article that Mr. Dong was a “witting affiliate” in China’s election interference networks, and that he had advised a senior Chinese diplomat in February 2021 that Beijing should not release Canadian citizens Michael Spavor and Michael Kovrig, who were arbitrarily detained in 2018....