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Watchdog: Intelligence Gathering Unit Puts Canadian Diplomats in Legal 'Gray Zone'

  • #Canada
  • #Espionage
  • #China
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DEC 2023
Image copyright: President of Ukraine [via Wikimedia Commons]
story last updated DEC 2023

The Spin

Narrative A

Global Affairs Canada has irresponsibly put Canada's interests and security, as well as its diplomats and GRSP contacts in danger, as the department wrongfully insists that diplomatic personnel could gain access to protected or classified information without violating the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations. The GSPR must have its operational basis properly reformed to avoid becoming an even bigger problem for Canada.

The Globe and Mail

Narrative B

It would be foolish to change a decades-old, successful program that delivers high-quality political reports, such as the GRSP, based on media hysteria and ill-founded allegations. The fact that China detained Kovrig and Spavor as hostages to be exchanged for a Chinese national arrested in Canada has nothing to do with this alleged "gray zone," as neither of them enjoyed diplomatic immunities.

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