Staff from the office of the Prime Minister are set to speak at the public inquiry into foreign interference in Canada’s elections.
The testimony came one day after the inquiry sighted a briefing document prepared for the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) stating China interfered in the 2019 and 2021 federal elections.
The document from Canada’s spy agency stated it was aware that China “clandestinely and deceptively interfered” in those elections.
According to the document, Chinese foreign interference activities were very likely motivated in 2021 by a perception the Conservative Party of Canada’s campaign platform was anti-China.
The commission will hear from the PMO’s Jeremy Broadhurst, Katie Telford, Brian Clow and Patrick Travers a day before Prime Minister Justin Trudeau appears.
Top government officials that monitored election threats told the commission recently that incidents that happened during those campaigns did not meet the threshold to issue a public warning.
