Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino is blaming the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) for failing to brief Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Beijing’s attempts to threaten the family of Conservative MP Michael Chong. “It is a serious issue that neither the prime minister nor the public safety minister at the time were informed directly by…

Close to two-thirds of Canadians support a public inquiry into foreign interference in elections, and 58 percent of Canadians believe foreign governments have successfully influenced voting in the country, according to a new poll. In the Research Co. survey, one-third of Canadians, or 33 percent, responded that it was “very likely” that China has attempted…

A panel of senior federal employees examining foreign meddling in Canadian elections has concluded that the integrity of the 2021 federal election wasn’t impacted by foreign interference. In a Feb. 28 news release, the minister for Democratic Institutions said the panel “did not detect foreign interference that threatened Canada’s ability to have a free and fair election”…