Ex-ambassador blames Beijing ‘kneecapping’ as Canadian parliament’s China committee is shut down

Canadian critics of the Chinese government are decrying the demise of a parliamentary committee that had been a thorn in Beijing’s side since 2019, with a former ambassador calling it a “kneecapping” by China and the result of a foreign-influence operation.David Mulroney, Canada’s Beijing envoy from 2009 to 2012, directly attributed the decision by the Conservative opposition not to reconvene the Special Committee on Canada-China Relations, to the party’s losses in heavily Chinese electorates…