Foreign Interference Inquiry Hears of ‘Extensive’ Chinese Regime Campaign Against Falun Gong in Canada

Chinese regime agents manipulating politicians, physical and verbal abuse by Beijing’s agents, and the spreading of regime-instigated hate through media are some of the challenges faced by the Falun Gong community in Canada, the foreign interference inquiry heard on March 27. Representatives of diaspora groups who report being targeted by a foreign power opened the new round of hearings at the Public Inquiry into Foreign Interference (PIFI) in Ottawa. The hearings are meant to hear evidence about interference in the 2019 and 2021 elections, but started with testimony from communities who are more broadly targeted by foreign actors and transnational repression. Grace Wollensak, speaking on behalf of the Falun Gong community, detailed what she called an “extensive foreign interference and repression” campaign in Canada led by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) over the past two decades....