If there was significant interference by China in Canada’s last two federal elections, which seems increasingly likely, the federal agency specifically created by the Trudeau government to inform the public about it said nothing.
That suggests one of two things, both alarming.
Either it didn’t know about it, or did know and didn’t tell us.
Prior to the 2019 federal election, the Liberal cabinet created the Critical Election Incident Public Protocol (CEIPP) headed by five senior civil servants — the clerk of the privy council; the national security and intelligence advisor to the prime minister; the deputy minister of justice and deputy attorney general; the deputy minister of public safety and the deputy minister of foreign affairs.
The government described CEIPP as “the mechanism for communicating with Canadians during the 2019 election (and subsequent elections) in a clear, transparent and impartial manner, if there had been an egregious incident that threatened Canada’s ability to have a free and fair election.”
Following the 2019 election, CEIPP said it observed no foreign interference that would impact the integrity of the election.
But an extensive report by Global News reporter Sam Cooper earlier this month said Canadian intelligence officials
warned Prime Minister Trudeau in January of this year that China had allegedly targeted Canada with a vast campaign of foreign interference in the 2019 election, one component of which was funding a secret network of at least 11 federal candidates running for the Liberal and Conservative parties.
If China interfered in Canada's last 2 federal elections, the agency Trudeau's Liberals created to inform the public about it said nothing.
torontosun.com
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& yet, as of today, he hasn’t been briefed:
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Sunday that Canadian intelligence officials never briefed him on allegations that China was funding federal candidates in Canada's 2019 election.
globalnews.ca
So which one is it? I get that Xi wanted Liberals in power in 2019 & 2021 (Google Uighur Genocide Vote Canada), and that O’Toole has been saying for a long time that there was interference by China in the 2021 Federal Election…& that we’re talking about the 2019 Federal Election…but seriously, the PM hasn’t been briefed on this since the Fall of 2019? Dude doesn’t have freak’n Google access?
This is from September 24th, 2021:
The return of the SNC-Lavalin affair
nationalpost.com