Public Safety Minister Gary Anandasangaree says authorities will look into a recent report indicating that China operates multiple liaison points in Canada representing Chinese police and other security and judicial agencies, adding that the claims need to be confirmed.
The minster’s comments follow an Oct. 27 report by the human rights group Safeguard Defenders saying that Chinese Communist Party (CCP) authorities maintain 1,247 liaison points worldwide, including over a dozen in Canada. The report says the network is used to repress dissent, gather intelligence, and monitor the Chinese diaspora.
“I can say that foreign interference of any sort is unacceptable. It’s something that we will not tolerate. With respect to these specific allegations – they are allegations and have not been investigated,” Anandasangaree told CTV News.
He added that some of the associations identified are just community groups that “go about providing civic life to members of the Chinese diaspora.”
Anandasangaree also raised concerns that “unsubstantiated” numbers of Chinese community associations being linked to suspicion could unfairly impact Chinese Canadians.
“Of course [foreign interference] is a concern,” he said. “The other side is mislabelling and putting people and communities in fear unnecessarily.”
The report identifies liaison points in Toronto, Vancouver, Ottawa, Montreal and Brossard, Que., some of which it links to Chinese police forces, justice bureaus, courts, prosecutorial functions, and administrative activities.
The report says the Chinese regime’s overseas network continued to expand even after suspected Chinese overseas police stations were publicly exposed in 2022, increasingly operating through community associations and liaison arrangements less visibly connected to policing.
In February 2023, then-RCMP Commissioner Brenda Lucki testified before a parliamentary committee that RCMP officers and police vehicles had been sent to several of the suspected locations in Toronto and Vancouver to disrupt the activities taking place.
In June 2023, then-acting RCMP Commissioner Michael Duheme testified before committee that authorities believed they had succeeded in shutting down any suspicious activities at the Chinese police stations, but said investigations were continuing.
The RCMP eventually closed its investigation into two alleged suspicious sites at Chinese community centres in the greater Montreal area after laying no charges, with the organizations having since taken legal action against Ottawa.
The Epoch Times reached out to the Chinese embassy in Ottawa but didn’t hear back by time of publication.
Conservative MP Glen Motz said the latest Safeguard Defenders’ report raises serious concerns about foreign interference and security of Canadians.
“The regime in Beijing has interfered with Canadian elections, kidnapped our citizens, set up secret police stations on our soil, dropped surveillance buoys in our Arctic waters and flown spy balloons through our airspace,” heThe regime in Beijing has interfered with Canadian elections, kidnapped our citizens, set up secret police stations on our soil, dropped surveillance buoys in our Arctic waters and flown spy balloons through our airspace. on social media on Nov. 7.
“We deserve transparency about what Mark Carney and his government knew, what action will be taken, how it intends to protect our sovereignty and the safety of Canadians, and why the Prime Minister has reversed course after calling China our ‘biggest security threat.’”
RCMP Responds to Latest Report
In response to the the latest report, the RCMP told The Epoch Times that it had previously investigated the suspected foreign police stations and responded appropriately.
“The RCMP takes all allegations of foreign interference, transnational repression, and foreign state-linked criminal activity seriously,” a spokesperson for the RCMP said in an email statement.
“We continue to actively investigate reports nationally of criminal activity in relation to locations of interest, transnational repression activity, and those responsible for transnational repression, to ensure diaspora communities are safe from foreign interference.”
The spokesperson said some locations investigated by the RCMP for suspicious activity also provide services to the Chinese Canadian community, and urged anyone who witnesses suspicious activity to report it to authorities.
The report by Safeguard Defenders maintains that Chinese police activities were part of a much larger network that CCP authorities continue to use to monitor and repress diaspora communities.
A February 2026 investigation by the Jamestown Foundation, a U.S. think tank, concluded that at least 575 organizations in Canada are linked to China’s United Front system which form part of a network of over 2,000 organizations spread across four Western nations.
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