How Canada has been helping China hunt for fugitives for decades. Direction came 'from Ottawa at the highest level,' says former RCMP operations manager

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  Calvin Chrustie, a former RCMP operations officer in British Columbia, said in an interview that he received direction “from Ottawa at the highest level” to “assist and collaborate with” Chinese officials regarding a “high-profile fugitive that they were after in the Vancouver area.”

  “Our economic interests sort of drove this,” said veteran Toronto immigration lawyer Lorne Waldman, who represents a number of people now in Canada who are wanted by Chinese authorities.

  Since 2014, the Chinese government has aggressively pursued the return of alleged corrupt public officials and economic criminals living abroad through long-arm police operations it dubbed Sky Net and Fox Hunt.

  CSIS declined to be interviewed for this story, but in an email, a spokesperson said that China uses “all elements of state power to carry out activities that are a direct threat to our national security and sovereignty.”

  For years, the RCMP and CBSA participated in working groups with their Chinese counterparts to discuss various areas of collaboration, including repatriating fugitives in Canada back to China.

  The 2019 annual report of the National Security and Intelligence Committee of Parliamentarians further noted that in 2015, Global Affairs Canada took the lead in Ottawa and “established an interdepartmental working group with CSIS, the RCMP, the Department of Justice and CBSA that met regularly (every two to three months) to discuss Fox Hunt.”

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