Calls for interference inquiry dominate House return, Trudeau to speak
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will be tapping Parliament’s top-secret national security committee to conduct an investigation into allegations of foreign interference, CTV News has confirmed.
"In 2013, CSIS identified foreign interference as a challenge in the electoral context. Mr. Harper's former national security adviser raised this publicly in 2010, 13 years ago," LeBlanc said. "And when my honourable friend was the minister responsible for this very file, he did absolutely nothing to deal with the question of foreign interference. I know he's frustrated that we've done so much. And the good news Mr.
"That's a trick, and that's a trap," Poilievre said. "So no, we're not going to have a situation where Conservatives are told that they have to be quiet about this scandal, because they're sworn to secrecy. What we need is a public inquiry that is truly independent to get to the bottom of it, all while continuing the parliamentary investigation."
This motion passed after hours of testimony from top intelligence officials who sought to assure that the integrity of Canada's last two elections was upheld despite meddling attempts by China, while cautioning that they'd be limited in what more they could say in a public forum, pointing to the NSICOP as a better venue.
"I absolutely hear that Canadians want to be reassured… They want to make sure that all the right questions are being posed of our intelligence and security agencies in a rigorous way to make sure they're doing everything possible, and they want a level of public accountability from those officials," Trudeau said. "All of those goals are related to processes that are ongoing as we speak.
"We don't have a hard stance on what the public inquiry would look like, but we certainly support some form of inquiry that's public, non-partisan, that would look into issues of foreign government interference. I think first and foremost, we're concerned, you know, as an anti-racism group, were focused on this issue of kind of dispelling myths or, or at least giving full public insights into what is actually going on," he said.
"It's a very delicate thing to communicate when going after the Chinese government and what they're doing, versus what Chinese Canadians are doing," Bert Chen, a former Conservative national council member, told CTV News.
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