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Thu Jun 6, 2024, 09:54 AM Jun 2024

China and India meddle in Canadian politics With MPs help

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/foreign-interference-trudeau-nsicop-1.7222730

Some MPs helping foreign actors like China and India meddle in Canadian politics: report

NSICOP report says Trudeau government slow to respond to threat of foreign interference

Catharine Tunney · CBC News · Posted: Jun 03, 2024 12:27 PM PDT | Last Updated: June 3

A shocking new report from one of Canada's intelligence watchdogs suggests some Parliamentarians are "wittingly" helping foreign governments like China and India meddle in Canadian politics.

The National Security and Intelligence Committee of Parliamentarians, which is made up of MPs and senators from across the political spectrum, was asked last year to investigate allegations of foreign interference in Canadian elections. Their heavily-redacted report, tabled in the House of Commons on Monday, pointed to "particularly concerning" behaviour by some Parliamentarians.




The report said China believes it has a quid pro quo relationship with some MPs who will engage with the Chinese Communist Party in exchange for Beijing mobilizing its vast networks in their favour.

NSICOP reported it also saw intelligence suggesting that unnamed parliamentarians:
Communicated frequently with foreign missions before or during a political campaign to obtain support from community groups or businesses to be mobilized by diplomatic missions;
Accepted knowingly, or through willful blindness, funds or benefits from foreign missions or their proxies which have been layered or otherwise disguised to conceal their source;
Provided foreign diplomatic officials with privileged information on the work or opinions of fellow parliamentarians, knowing that such information would be used by those officials to inappropriately pressure parliamentarians to change their positions;
Responded to the requests or direction of foreign officials to improperly influence parliamentary colleagues or parliamentary business to the advantage of a foreign state

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(Names of corrupt officials redacted makes everything worse, casting suspicion over all MPs.

Oh, Canada.)

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