Canadians need to be ‘reassured’ about foreign interference concerns: Trudeau
“But we’re going to have to make sure we’re continuing to be vigilant in the future.”
Questions about foreign interference emerged after Global News reported earlier in November that Trudeau and members of his cabinet were allegedly briefed in January 2022 that the Chinese Consulate in Toronto directed a clandestine election-interference network in 2019, which intelligence sources allege is a loosely affiliated group of Liberals and Conservatives funded by the Chinese Communist Party to help advance its political objectives in Canada.
Other intelligence sources told Global that the consulate disbursed $250,000 through proxies to the network, which allegedly included an Ontario MPP, and at least 11 federal candidates and 14 staffers. While the briefings did not conclude that Beijing funded any campaigns directly, that’s how the issue has been interpreted at times in the political debate in the House of Commons.The government’s recently-released Indo-Pacific strategy includes commitments to boost funding for the RCMP, the Canadian Security Intelligence Service and other security agencies to improve domestic cybersecurity and monitoring of foreign interference.
Ottawa has so far been reluctant to introduce such a registry, which close security allies like the United States, Australia and the United Kingdom have done.
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