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Canada: Did Communist China interfere in the last federal election to ensure Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was re-elected?

According to CSIS, Canada’s intelligence agency, the Chinese Communist Party interfered in Canada’s last federal election to ensure that the Liberal Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was re-elected. Part of this plan included making sure any Conservative Politicians who opposed Beijing were not elected. The Globe and Mail writes: China employed a sophisticated strategy to disrupt Canada’s democracy in the 2021 federal election campaign as Chinese diplomats and their proxies backed the re-election of Justin Trudeau’s Liberals – but only to another minority government – and worked to defeat Conservative politicians considered to be unfriendly to Beijing. The full extent of the Chinese interference operation is laid bare in both secret and top-secret Canadian Security Intelligence Service documents viewed by The Globe and Mail that cover the period before and after the September, 2021, election that returned the Liberals to office. READ BEHIND PAYWALL: CSIS documents reveal Chinese strategy to influence Canada’s 2021 election But the full article is available here. Meanwhile, Prime Minister Trudeau is insisting this is all fake news: READ: Trudeau says opposition …