But Canadians can have 'total confidence' in the integrity of its election results, said Mr Trudeau. Read more at straitstimes.com.
OTTAWA – Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said China has been attempting to interfere in Canada’s democracy for years, but Canadians can have “total confidence” in the integrity of its election results.
That’s exactly what happened in the September 2021 election, which Mr Trudeau called hoping to turn the success of the country’s Covid-19 vaccination campaign into a parliamentary majority. The Liberals won 160 seats, 10 short of majority rule. Canada had a non-partisan panel of civil servants that was regularly briefed by security services during the 2019 and 2021 elections and was tasked with ensuring foreign actors didn’t affect the outcome, the prime minister said.
She said there are numerous ways to investigate the allegations, such as having tax authorities check for potential election financing fraud in the districts where interference is alleged to have taken place. Conservatives, who form the main opposition party, have long been convinced that China interfered in the 2021 election against some of their candidates by spreading misinformation through social media and ethnic media outlets.
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