Joyce Murray gave notice of the following motion:
That, in the opinion of the Standing Committee on Public Safety and National Security, the government has failed to either substantiate or refute public allegations made by Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) Director Mr. Richard Fadden with prior approval from a member of the Executive Council, in which he denounced municipal politicians and provincial ministers in B.C. and Ontario for being under the influence of foreign governments, therefore the government is complicit in and responsible for these unsubstantiated assertions;
and further given (a) the discriminatory nature of Mr. Fadden’s remarks regarding foreign governments' influence over cultural community members including those with an interest in politics through university and college clubs, and specifying first and second generation Chinese Canadians, and (b) the consequential implications of untrustworthiness and disloyalty of newer Chinese immigrants compared with third generation Chinese community members, and (c) the negative and harmful impacts on Canadians of Chinese origin and other cultural backgrounds, and their elected representatives, resulting from these unfounded claims and innuendos, and (d) the erosion of confidence and respect by the international community towards a country whose government fails to take action to remedy inappropriate, inflammatory and hurtful allegations made by a senior officer responsible for the security apparatus of that country, and (e) the absence of means for the citizens, who feel they have unjustly been placed under a cloud of suspicion, to rectify this injustice, and (f) the responsibility of parliamentarians to be a voice for those they represent;
Therefore the Committee calls on the government to (a) unreservedly apologize for approving and allowing Mr. Fadden to make these unsupported assertions, and (b) such apology to be made in the House of Commons, (c) and to the Chinese Canadian community and other cultural communities implicated in and offended by Mr. Fadden’s allegations concerning growing foreign interference in domestic politics and (d) require Mr. Fadden to tender his resignation as the Canadian Security Intelligence Service Director.