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LILLEY: CHINA INTERFERING IN CANADA'S ELECTIONS AND TRUDEAU WON'T STOP IT
Author of the article:
Brian Lilley
Publishing date:
Nov 10, 2022 • 19 hours ago • 3 minute read • 131 Comments
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau meets Chinese President Xi Jinping at the
Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing, China on Tuesday, Dec. 5, 2017. Photo by
Sean Kilpatrick /THE CANADIAN PRESS
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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was warned by CSIS in January that China had
interfered in the 2019 election.
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LILLEY: CHINA INTERFERING IN CANADA'S ELECTIONS AND TRUDEAU WON'T STOP IT BACK
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Since then, he’s done nothing about it, which is all you need to know about his
government’s claim that they will take a tough position on China going forward.
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The news that at least 11 candidates, Liberals and Conservatives, had been
targeted, and perhaps assisted, even funded, by a Chinese campaign of foreign
influence broke on Monday. An in-depth report by Sam Cooper of Global News
detailed how the Chinese consulate in Toronto had used intermediaries to provide
funds and campaign staff to favourable candidates, some linked to the Chinese
Communist Party.
The government hasn’t denied any of this despite both Global Affairs Minister
Melanie Joly and Trudeau himself being asked about the report.
“Unfortunately we’re seeing that countries, state actors from around the world,
whether it’s China or others, are continuing to play aggressive games with our
institutions, with our democracies,” Trudeau said when asked Monday.
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He didn’t promise to push back on China’s attempts to interfere with our
elections nor suggest how things would change. This is even more worrisome when
you consider there is evidence China also interfered to defeat certain
Conservative candidates in the 2021 election.
“It’s very troubling that the Prime Minister has known about allegations about
foreign interference in Canadian elections since last January and he hasn’t
taken any action,” Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre said when speaking to
reporters Wednesday.
“No foreign government should have any influence over our elections or our
future,” he said. “That should reside in the hands of Canadians.”
Poilievre accused Trudeau of failing to protect our democracy.
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He’s right, Trudeau has failed, he’s failed to even inform Canadians about this
evidence or comment on the issue in general. He’s likely said more about
allegations of foreign interference in American elections than he has Canadian.
That could have something to do with this interference helping his party.
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Kenny Chiu was the Conservative MP for the Vancouver area riding of
Steveston-Richmond East up until the 2021 election. He has said he was one of
several Conservative MPs targeted with campaigns against them in Chinese
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Have you heard Trudeau condemn China’s interference in either of the last two
Canadian elections?
This week though, we heard a dubious claim that the Trudeau government would
take a different view of China in its foreign policy stance.
“China is an increasingly disruptive, global power. It seeks to shape the global
environment into one that is more permissive for interests and values that
increasingly depart from ours,” Joly said Wednesday at a major address in
Toronto.
Joly was asked about the reports of China’s interference and simply said we
won’t allow foreign countries to interfere but didn’t provide any concrete
examples of how the government will stop it.
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We have been warned about foreign interference in our political process by China
for more than a decade now and little has been done to stop it. In 2010, Richard
Fadden, then the director of CSIS, said in an interview with CBC that there were
politicians elected in Canada who were under the influence of foreign
governments, including China.
The reaction from the Liberal Party was to demand his resignation, a position
echoed by the Toronto Star. Since then, we’ve had more warnings, but failed to
act, failed to even discuss the issue properly as a country.
This time, we can’t look away, we must examine what happened, determine what
steps can be taken to protect our democracy from future interference and then
act.
Anything less is simply letting China win and democracy lose.
blilley@postmedia.com
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