Singh 'more alarmed than before' after reading full foreign interference watchdog report

Federal NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh says he is 'even more alarmed than before' after reading the un-redacted spy watchdog report alleging there are MPs and senators who are participating to some degree in foreign interference efforts.

Federal NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh says he is “even more alarmed than before” after reading the un-redacted spy watchdog report alleging there are MPs and senators who are participating to some degree in foreign interference efforts.

Singh received security clearance to the full classified report of the National Security and Intelligence Committee of Parliamentarians (NSICOP) this week. After reading it, he says he concluded that several MPs have knowingly aided foreign governments, telling reporters Thursday that “what they’re doing is unethical.”

“What I read absolutely bolsters the conclusion, and it makes me even more alarmed than before," Singh told CTV Question Period host Vassy Kapelos in an interview that aired Sunday.

“The conclusions that were drawn by the report are that there were serious examples where parliamentarians engaged in activity that undermined our country.”

Some of that reported activity, Singh adds, is illegal and it is all unethical.

Singh could not detail the names or number of MPs listed in the report, due to the provisions associated with his top security clearance, but stressed there are unresolved issues that must be dealt with.

“Their conclusions were really, I would say, incendiary in a lot of ways,” Singh said. “People saw that and were very, deeply worried. I’m saying that’s exactly how people should feel, that that feeling of being disturbed or being alarmed by the revelations in that report were maintained by the un-redacted version.”