Conservative MP Michael Chong is calling on the Liberal government to identify the 11 candidates who allegedly received funding from the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in the 2019 federal election.
“It is clear that Beijing interfered in last year’s 2021 election. Beijing’s ambassador to Canada commented critically and publicly during that election campaign and Beijing spread disinformation through proxies on Chinese-language social media platforms,” Chong said in Parliament on Nov. 14.
“Last week we found out that Beijing also interfered in the 2019 election. We found out that the Prime Minister was told months ago, in January, about hundreds of thousands of dollars that were illegally funnelled to at least 11 election candidates.”…