Two former top federal officials who had alleged links to a 2017 memo to the prime minister on Chinese regime interference told a committee of MPs they have no recollection of the matter.
“I have no memory of seeing that note,” Michael Wernick told the House of Commons Procedure and House Affairs Committee (PROC) on April 18.
Wernick is the former Clerk of the Privy Council, the top public service role managing the Privy Council Office (PCO), which supports the functioning of the prime minister’s department.
Wernick served in that role from 2016 to 2019 and was invited to the committee to share his knowledge as PROC studies foreign interference. He is currently the Jarislowsky Chair in Public Sector Management at the University of Ottawa….