The Trudeau Liberals don’t own our elections
Canada’s elections are not the private property of the Liberal Party of Canada. That rather simple fact seems to elude Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who continues to refuse to take the needed step of calling a formal independent inquiry – with cross-partisan support of its composition and mandate – to investigate China’s election meddling in the elections of 2019 and 2021.
The Globe has reported, based on Canadian Security Intelligence Service documents, that Beijing illegally intervened to tilt the election toward the Liberals, with the aim of ensuring Mr. Trudeau won a minority mandate in the 2021 vote, including the use of disinformation campaigns against Conservative candidates and illegally aiding preferred candidates with undeclared cash and with volunteer workers.
There is deflection, in the form of a foggy mandate for the rapporteur to examine foreign interference and how to protect “Canadians’ faith in our democracy,” as Mr. Trudeau told reporters on Monday. Yes, the broad issue of foreign interference, and how to guard against it, is of concern. But more pressing is the question of precisely what China did to interfere in the 2019 and 2021 elections, how that aided the Liberals – and what the Trudeau government did about it.
Similarly, the government is choosing the smallest possible increment of action on the matter of a foreign-agent registry to track those paid to influence Canadian governments on behalf of other countries. On Monday, Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino said the government would launch consultations on the “potential creation” of such a registry. Translation: The Liberals are still refusing to create a registry.
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