Canadian Police said on Thursday they are investigating allegations that two Montreal-area centers are being used as Chinese state-backed 'police stations' to intimidate or harass Canadians of Chinese origin.
into similar reports of Chinese "police service stations" in the Toronto area. The RCMP in Ontario did not respond to a request for information on that probe on Thursday.
The Chinese embassy in Ottawa did not respond to a request for comment. It has previously said that there are centers outside China run by local volunteers, not Chinese police officers, that aim to help Chinese citizens renew documents and offer other services disrupted during the COVID-19 pandemic. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau told parliament on Thursday his government would take every measure to protect Canadians from "unacceptable actions by hostile authoritarian regimes."Tensions between Canada and China soared in late 2018 when Canadian police detained an executive of the Chinese company Huawei Technologies Co, which was followed by Beijing's arrest of two Canadians on spying charges. All three were freed in 2021.
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