Justin Trudeau’s reaction to news reports that China has meddled in the last three Canadian elections follows a a similar pattern.
Of course, Trudeau tried to fob off blame on CSIS, who he said clearly had a problem with leaks of sensitive information.
Trudeau even employed the old dodge used by China’s propaganda masters themselves: Claiming that blaming China is racist.Advertisement 4First is his assertion that China’s efforts to aid candidates favourable to its goals and policies did not affect the outcome of either the 2019 or 2021 campaigns.
But that’s not how Canadian elections work. There is not one big election, but rather 338 individual constituency elections. And the voters in each of those ridings have as much right to expect their local choice to be a free and clear of foreign influence as the voters in the other 337.Article content
And that leads to the second consequence Trudeau refuses to acknowledge. There could now be as many as 12 MPs in Parliament friendly to, or perhaps even beholden to China’s Communist Party.
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