Lyall King News Today

OTTAWA - A panel of top bureaucrats considered warning the public about possible foreign interference in the last general election, but ultimately decided against it, a senior official testified at

According to testimony and documents published during week two of the foreign interference inquiry's public hearings, Canada's approach to safeguarding the past two elections was plagued by failures to communicate important information.

Privy Council Office staff said they considered 2021 WeChat misinformation different because it wasn’t a character attack and was in Mandarin, not English

Canada’s chief electoral officer says he did not receive any reports of Beijing interfering with the 2019 federal election when asked by MPs during his testimony before the Commons House Affairs committee (PROC) on Nov. 22.

Chinese state media and pro-Beijing actors ran propaganda campaigns to smear the credibility of Conservative candidates in the last federal election, says the director of a foreign disinformation monitoring and debunking platform. The narratives pushed in those campaigns indicate a “likelihood of a coordinated operation” to influence Chinese-Canadians voters.