Special Rapporteur David Johnston says the Liberal government didn’t negligently fail to act on intelligence regarding the threat of foreign interference, but he highlighted problems surrounding the dissemination of intelligence within the state machinery.
“There are serious shortcomings in the way intelligence is communicated and processed from security agencies through to government,” he wrote in one of the five conclusions of his first report on May 23.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau appointed the former governor general as special rapporteur in March amid calls for a public inquiry into Chinese interference on Canadian soil, giving him the mandate to determine whether an inquiry was needed….