Vincent Rigby, now-retired national security advisor to the Prime Minister, yesterday testified he never saw a memo warning that Chinese agents targeted a Conservative MP. Rigby told the House affairs committee he read thousands of documents.

“I did discuss foreign interference with the Prime Minister on at least one occasion formally,” testified Rigby. The briefing “was done I believe in early 2021,” he added. “I can’t get into the advice that I gave to the Prime Minister, specific advice and the conversations that happened.”

The Canadian Security Intelligence Service in a July 20, 2021 memo warned that foreign agents threatened family members of MP Michael Chong (Wellington-Halton Hills, Ont.) after he sponsored a Commons motion condemning human rights atrocities in China. MP Chong was never told of the memo.