Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is denying reports that Liberal MP Han Dong is a willing benefactor of Chinese Communist influence operations, going so far as to suggest it’s racist for CSIS and others to suggest so.

Meanwhile, the Canadian federal government has banned Chinese social media app TikTok from government devices.

Plus a comedian in Quebec has had his shows cancelled for featuring a puppet that critics say is a blackface prop – but the comedian, who is Black himself, is not backing down.

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