Ottawa’s sounds of silence on election meddling
The federal Liberal government has used two lines of defence and deflection to avoid the mounting criticisms it has inexplicably ignored China’s efforts to interfere in two successive Canadian federal elections, most alarmingly in 2021., is that the integrity of the 2021 vote was not compromised by foreign interference, with the implication being that whatever Beijing was up to, those efforts bore no fruit.
The first line of defence is to tell Canadians there’s nothing to see; the second, that there’s nothing that can be said. They both miss the point that transparency is needed – now – to avoid eroding Canadians’ faith in the electoral process.from the Critical Election Incident Public Protocol panel as proof everything was hunky-dory in the 2021 vote.
That is hugely significant for the current debate over the 2021 election. True, even a flip of nine seats would not have given the Tories victory. But it’s disingenuous, at best, to assert that a closer seat count would not have mattered. Clearly, that makes it very much in the public interest to know what the various guardians of Canada’s national security and election security are doing to dig into revelations from The Globe and others. So far their answer has been to hold up the word “confidentiality” as a talisman.
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