Justice Marie-Josée Hogue’s preliminary report expected to provide fresh findings on allegations of foreign interference operations in Canadian elections.
WATCH: The head of Canada 's spy agency, Canadian Security Intelligence Service , appeared for a second time at the inquiry into foreign interference. David Vigneault was not initially scheduled as the last witness, who was supposed to be Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. But the "top spy" was called back after the Prime Minister's closest advisers said CSIS did not relay key information related to Chinese interference in the last two federal elections. Touria Izri reports.
Allegation: The People’s Republic of China planned to give $250,000 to 11 political candidates for the 2019 election through intermediaries, including an Ontario MPP“CSIS reported that China’s Toronto consulate directed a large clandestine transfer of funds to a network of at least 11 federal election candidates and numerous Beijing operatives who worked as their campaign staffers. The funds were allegedly transferred through an Ontario provincial MPP and a federal election candidate staffer.
Allegation: National security officials warned Trudeau more than a year before the 2019 election that Chinese agents were “assisting Canadian candidates running for political offices”“National security officials drafted a warning for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his office more than a year before the 2019 federal election, alleging that Chinese agents were “assisting Canadian candidates running for political offices,” according to a Privy Council Office document reviewed by Global News.
Johnston said he did not find evidence that “Mr. Dong was aware of the irregularities or the PRC Consulate’s potential involvement in his nomination.”Dong denied any knowledge of the alleged irregularities, and said that if he was made aware of international students improperly voting in his nomination he would have put a stop to it.
Allegation: There was an “orchestrated machine to ensure a minority Liberal government was returned” and Beijing was “determined” the Conservatives not win the 2021 election“China employed a sophisticated strategy to disrupt Canada’s democracy in the 2021 federal election campaign as Chinese diplomats and their proxies backed the re-election of Justin Trudeau’s Liberals – but only to another minority government – and worked to defeat Conservative politicians considered to be unfriendly to...
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