Conservatives Ask CSIS to Probe John McCallum’s Comments About Advice to China

Conservatives Ask CSIS to Probe John McCallum’s Comments About Advice to China
John McCallum in a file photo. The Canadian Press/Sean Kilpatrick
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OTTAWA—Conservative MPs want Canada’s intelligence agency to probe whether a former Canadian ambassador is encouraging China to interfere in the upcoming federal election.

John McCallum was the ambassador to China from March 2017 until January 2019, when the Liberals fired him following a number of public comments that broke with the government’s line on the detention of two Canadians in China. He’s also a former Liberal MP and cabinet minister.