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Probe to Determine Chinese Interference in Election

Wednesday, 22 February 2023 07:51

By Canadian Press

Liberals to testify over allegations China worked to defeat Conservative candidates

The Liberal government is coming under fire over alleged Chinese interference in the last federal election.

A House of Commons committee will meet at least three more times this month and is calling up national security agencies and Liberal cabinet ministers to testify.

This started after a report in The Globe and Mail pointed out China worked in the 2021 election to defeat Conservative candidates considered unfriendly to Beijing and to help ensure a Liberal minority government.

Most of the witnesses planned to appear before the committee have already taken part in its probe of allegations of foreign interference in the 2019 election.

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