Richard Fadden, director of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, will appear before the Commons public safety committee on Monday. (CBC)

Federal MPs will reconvene the Commons public safety committee in order to hear from CSIS director Richard Fadden.

Fadden, who last week told CBC News that the spy agency was aware of foreign influence on Canadian politicians, will appear before the committee between 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. ET Monday.

In an exclusive interview, Fadden had told CBC News that: "We're in fact a bit worried in a couple of provinces that we have an indication that there's some political figures who have developed quite an attachment to foreign countries."

He later issued a statement downplaying those comments, saying: "I have not apprised the Privy Council Office of the cases I mentioned in the interview on CBC. At this point, CSIS has not deemed the cases to be of sufficient concern to bring them to the attention of provincial authorities."

Fadden did not say what countries are suspected of being involved in the practice, but in his interview with CBC, he pointed to a statement by former CSIS boss Jim Judd that the intelligence agency spends half its counter-espionage budget dealing with China.

When Fadden was asked whether China was one of the foreign governments involved, he referred to media reports on China conducting economic espionage in Canada, saying they were not "entirely incorrect."

"I believe the country that you mentioned was mentioned in those stories," he said to the interviewer.

His comments came shortly before Chinese President Hu Jintao arrived in Canada for the G20 summit.

The Prime Minister's Office said the matter did not come up in Prime Minister Stephen Harper's meetings with Hu.