Gould said in a classified interview last month that the activities were similar to what had been seen in the past and did not compromise the election
Liberal member of Parliament Karina Gould appears as a witness at the Public Inquiry Into Foreign Interference in Federal Electoral Processes and Democratic Institutions in Ottawa on April 10.The former minister of democratic institutions says she was told after the October 2019 federal election that Canada ’s spy agency had seen low-level foreign interference activities by China.
Under a federal protocol, national security officials would inform a special panel of five senior bureaucrats of an interference attempt during an election period. Allegations of foreign interference in those elections – suggestions fuelled by anonymous leaks to the media – led to a chorus of calls for a public inquiry.
Before any public announcement from the panel, “they need to be certain that this is something of significant enough value” to the national interest that it be made public, she said. Gould wasn’t briefed on irregularities in the 2019 nomination race in the Toronto riding of Don Valley North, where Han Dong was named Liberal nominee. She told the commission it was outside her purview as democratic institutions minister.
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