Tag: Chinese election interference

Chinese Media Campaigns Cost Conservative MP His Seat in 2021 Election, Committee Hears

Chinese Communist Party (CCP) media campaigns carried out against Conservative MP Kenny Chiu during the 2021 federal election cost him his seat in Parliament, a witness told a House of Commons committee on Feb. 7. Charles Burton, a senior fellow at the Ottawa-based think tank Macdonald-Laurier Institute, told the Commons Standing Committee on House Affairs that Chiu was…


Details of Beijing’s Alleged Candidate-Funding Network Emerge: Report

An unredacted intelligence document unveils details of Beijing’s alleged attempts to interfere in Canada’s 2019 election. It alleges that covert funds ran through a network of community groups to Canadian federal candidates to further China’s interests. The Privy Council Office (PCO) document is from February 2020 and a heavily redacted version of it was filed earlier this…


Trudeau Responds to Privy Council Document Citing ‘Active Foreign Interference Network’

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau responded today to questions about a 2020 briefing document from the Privy Council Office (PCO) that mentioned an “active foreign interference network,” which was linked to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) during Canada’s 2019 federal election. Trudeau told reporters in Ottawa that the federal government has been aware of foreign interference…


Tories Want to Know If Alleged Chinese Funding to Candidates Was Reported to Elections Canada

Conservative MPs asked during question period in the House of Commons Friday if Prime Minister Justin Trudeau informed Elections Canada after he was briefed by intelligence officers in January that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) covertly funded 11 candidates in the 2019 federal election. “The prime minister had a choice: He could report this illegal…


Canada Must ‘Do More’ to Counter Chinese Election Interference, Says Joly

Foreign Affairs Minister Melanie Joly says Canada must “do more” to prevent Chinese interference when asked by reporters what should be done about recent allegations that China meddled in the 2019 federal election. “For the past two elections, we had a committee that was working on these very issues and also we strengthened our processes,…


Trudeau Must ‘Do More’ to Counter Chinese Interference, Tories Say After Report on Election Meddling

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau must “do more” to safeguard Canada’s democracy from interference by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), say Conservatives, following allegations that the prime minister was aware of foreign interference in the 2019 federal election. “Conservatives are extremely troubled by a recent media report that Canada has been a target of extensive foreign…