A top Liberal aide says there was no talk of dropping a 2021 Toronto candidate over allegations of secret contacts with Chinese Communist agents. “I was never involved in a conversation on the subject,” Katie Telford, the Prime Minister’s chief of staff, said when questioned regarding MP Han Dong (Don Valley North, Ont.): “Conversations did occur?”
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