Canada's spy agency knew China "clandestinely and deceptively interfered" in the past two federal votes, says a briefing document that emerged Monday at the public inquiry into foreign interference.
CSIS took the leaks to media "extremely seriously" because they posed a "direct threat" to the integrity of operations, the document notes. Panel member Marta Morgan said during the campaign the group tried to establish if the information was being circulated organically or through a state-sponsored actor. While Chinese news outlets picked up stories against Chiu, those died down before the vote, the inquiry heard.
"We know that the clandestinely and deceptively interfered in both the 2019 and 2021 general elections," the CSIS document read. She also pushed back against a suggestion by O'Toole's lawyer that the panel had a "very strong bias to inaction" because intelligence "very rarely at first instance allows any degree of certainty.""If the panel does an announcement based on something that is not substantiated, not true, we can create more harms than trying to correct something."
She also testified they were aware of students being bused to a controversial Liberal party nomination race in 2019 in Toronto, but details surrounding that report were uncorroborated and they did not know the candidate's name. Canada unveils updated defence policy, plan to spend $73B over 20 years on renewing military capacityFederal Liberals announce billions to build Canada's AI capacityA battle for hope: the brewing campaign clash between the Conservatives and the NDPThe public hearings portion of the federal inquiry into foreign interference in Canadian elections and democratic institutions are picking back up this week. Here's what you need to know.
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