Poilievre says spy agency CSIS deliberately leaked information about elections meddling to reporters because it didn’t trust the prime minister.
OTTAWA The debate over how to handle allegations of foreign interference took a bitter partisan turn Tuesday when Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre accused Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of working against Canadian interests and “covering up” support he received from Communist rulers in Beijing.
On Tuesday, the three main Opposition parties, and some security experts, were critical of a series of steps Trudeau announced a day earlier to probe how Canada’s security and electoral integrity systems detected and responded to the foreign meddling in the 2019 and 2021 election campaigns in the wake of recent media reports appearing to cite detailed security documents and briefings.
Poilievre last week said he accepted the results of the 2021 election, but on Tuesday, the Conservative leader ramped up his rhetoric. Trudeau warned Wednesday, standing alongside EU Commission President Ursula Von der Leyen, that Poilievre’s partisan attacks “misrepresent” the work of a committee of parliamentarians that can review top-secret or classified information, at risk of undermining Canadians’ trust in their democratic processes and institutions.
The Trudeau Foundation is a non-profit charity set up in memory of former prime minister Pierre Trudeau, focused on academic policy research. Last week the foundation returned $140,000 that had flowed from a $200,000 pledge in 2016 by a Chinese businessman after the Globe and Mail reported intelligence indicated a Chinese consulate office directed the donation. Trudeau’s office says he has not been affiliated with the foundation since he became Liberal leader in 2013.
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