Commissioner Justice Marie-Josee Hogue listens to a lawyer speak during the Public Inquiry Into Foreign Interference in Federal Electoral Processes and Democratic Institutions, Thursday, March 28, 2024 in Ottawa.
According to testimony and documents published during week two of the foreign interference inquiry's public hearings, Canada's approach to safeguarding the past two elections was plagued by failures to communicate important information.Commissioner Justice Marie-Josee Hogue listens to a lawyer speak during the Public Inquiry Into Foreign Interference in Federal Electoral Processes and Democratic Institutions on Thursday, March 28, 2024 in Ottawa.
When he was asked by senior counsel for the Foreign Interference Commission during a public hearing of the foreign interference inquiry earlier this week if he found that briefing useful, O'Toole said he would have appreciated getting the briefing "a few years earlier.
Erin O'Toole leaves after appearing as a witness at the Public Inquiry Into Foreign Interference in Federal Electoral Processes and Democratic Institutions in Ottawa on Wednesday, April 3, 2024. The assessment added that RRM was unable to determine whether there was coordination between Chinese Communist Party media and WeChat news accounts serving Chinese-speaking Canadians that were amplifying the narrative.Foreign interference cost Conservative Party up to 9 seats in 2021, O'Toole tells inquiry
He also noted that briefing political parties on classified information was a new endeavour for SITE. "There's learning processes on both sides," he said.According to another redacted top secret document published by the inquiry this week, King himself was frustrated with the flow of information from Canada's intelligence agencies to SITE during the 2019 election.
King said in the email that the limited distribution of the briefing effectively rendered the intelligence useless. CSIS assistant director Cherie Henderson was asked at the foreign interference inquiry about King's 2019 email on Thursday. She said it was an issue of timing and the report in question was the culmination of an investigation that began before the 2019 election campaign. SITE only manages issues that arise during the election period.
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