A former Conservative candidate has suspicions about why his Chinese-Canadian volunteers quit. So does the Liberal who beat him

By the end of the campaign, most volunteers of Chinese descent had dropped out, fearing for themselves and their families, Hayer said. It’s a tight-knit community,” Hardie told the Star. Hayer and Hardie said that in 2021, they informed leaders of the Liberal and Conservative parties, as well as CSIS, about what they saw in Surrey. We recently heard of a scam targeting the Chinese community. They just suffer in silence,” Hardie told the Star.