Liberals must do more to ‘safeguard’ democracy from foreign interference: O’Toole
In a wide-ranging interview with Mercedes Stephenson onthat aired Sunday, O’Toole responded to questions over the Canadian Security Intelligence Service informing him that he and his party had been the target of an “active voter suppression campaign” byin the 2021 election. O’Toole said he believes Trudeau hasn’t done enough to stop foreign interference – and that’s why he has been avoiding a national inquiry into the matter.
“So these are big questions. These aren’t little political spin of the day questions. This is, are we doing enough to safeguard our democracy? I don’t think the prime minister has,” O’Toole said.Last month, O’Toole broke down four separate “categories of threat” on the floor of the House of Commons that he said CSIS briefed him on.
That included foreign funding and the alleged payment of funds from China through its United Front Work Department to create “misinformation” targeting O’Toole.The former Tory leader stressed he did not believe that Beijing had cost him the 2021 election, noting he congratulated Trudeau both by phone and publicly on election night, but said it was a close election and he had been disappointed by the results.
“That’s all the political masters, that’s the ministers where it sits on their desk. That’s the ministers who don’t read their emails,” O’Toole said, also noting concerns over what Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino knew about Paul Bernardo’s transfer to a medium security prison last month. Mendicino has faced calls to resign after the Correctional Service of Canada revealed it alerted the minister’s office months before Bernardo was moved to a medium-security prison.
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