Prime Minister Justin Trudeau expresses frustration over leaked intelligence being sensationalized and taken out of context during a federal inquiry into foreign interference. Trudeau emphasizes the damage caused to Canadians' confidence in the democratic process and highlights the robust mechanisms in place to detect and combat interference.
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau expressed frustration to a federal inquiry into foreign interference that intelligence leaked to the media had been “sensationalized” and taken out of context.In a classified interview with the commission of inquiry in February, Trudeau said leaks suggesting otherwise were extremely damaging to Canadians' confidence in the democratic process .
Allegations of foreign interference in the last two general elections - suggestions fuelled by anonymous leaks to the media - led to a chorus of calls for the public inquiry. “If we say certain things, or if we contradict or deny other things, we could be giving our adversaries tools to actually understand how we go about detecting their interference.”
At the hearing, the prime minister listed measures his government had taken to address foreign interference since assuming power in 2015. The former minister of democratic institutions said she was told after the October 2019 federal election that Canada's spy agency had seen low-level foreign interference activities by China.
Gould said the process was designed to allow for a public announcement due to meddling at a national level or “something that's happening in one, singular riding.” During the public hearings Wednesday, Blair said security officials had no additional supporting information. “They indicated to me that they did not, at that time, have other corroborating evidence in any way to substantiate that.”
“I didn't feel that there was sufficient, or sufficiently credible, information that would justify this very significant step ... to remove a candidate in these circumstances,” Trudeau told the commission.
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