NDP leader Jagmeet Singh says he wants a public inquiry on foreign interference in Canadian elections to include a look at the actions of additional countries, such as Russia, India and Iran.
The negotiations also come on the heels of a cautionary warning from former special rapporteur David Johnston, who said the Liberal government had "serious shortcomings" in how it dealt with the flow of intelligence regarding bad foreign actors.
He said other parties have not been clear on whether the inquiry should look beyond China, despite community groups raising serious allegations about other countries. Singh didn't say which parties had resisted, and the scope of a possible public inquiry remains unclear. Last week, Intergovernmental Affairs Minister Dominic LeBlanc said the government would have more to reveal at the right moment.
During the final week of the spring sitting of Parliament, both the Bloc and the NDP said they felt the negotiations were close to a conclusion.
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