Prime Minister Justin Trudeau today told reporters that the federal government sufficiently prepared for and successfully prevented any attempts of foreign interference in the 2019 federal election, during which 11 candidates allegedly received Chinese funding, according to recent media reports.
Trudeau said the federal government was aware of the risk of foreign interference leading up to both the 2019 and 2021 elections because of “a pattern of increased interference in Canadian affairs in general by foreign powers,” which he said has been ongoing over the “past years and even decades.”
“We established for the 2019 election, for the 2021 election, an independent body made of top security officials and top civil servants to oversee the elections to make sure that there were no attempts by foreign powers of interference,” he told reporters on Parliament Hill on Nov. 22….