Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino has refused to say if an election integrity panel was given access to confidential Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) documents that allege China interfered in the last two federal elections.
This interference is alleged to have included providing support to 11 candidates, mostly Liberals, in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) in the 2019 election, and using various tactics to enable the Liberals to return to power with a minority government following the 2021 election .
In a Feb. 19 interview with The West Block program on Global News, Mendicino said the review panel members “look at the information that they need to make the assessment around the integrity of the elections. … They get the access that they need to the information that is required to come to those conclusions.”…