Jean-Pierre Kingsley wants independent review of disinformation campaigns used to aid favoured candidates
spread falsehoods on social media and provided undeclared cash donations in the 2021 election. The documents also say Beijing directed Chinese students studying in Canada to work as campaign volunteers and illegally returned a portion of a donation so the donor was not out of pocket after claiming a tax receipt.The highly classified documents also detail the role China’s consulate in Toronto played to help the campaigns of 11 candidates in the 2019 federal election.
Mr. Trudeau has played down China’s meddling, saying this foreign interference did not affect the outcome of both elections. Speaking to reporters in Halifax on Thursday, the Prime Minister defended the soundness of the 2019 and 2021 elections, noting that the Liberals set up a “critical incident election panel of our top public servants” who had access to intelligence data “to make sure that Canadians could have confidence that the integrity of our elections held.”
Mr. Kingsley said the Security and Intelligence Threats to Elections task force, which the government created to monitor election threats during the 2019 and 2021 campaigns, should have alerted the public and political parties about what China was doing. The Commons committee on procedure and House affairs has been holding hearings on China’s interference in the 2019 election and voted this week to extend the mandate to the 2021 election in response to The Globe revelations.
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