Local activist says consulate has been involved in politics for ‘a long, long time.’
VANCOUVER—Vancouver’s mayor has rejected parts of a newspaper report suggesting the China’s consulate in the city was looking to groom politicians and use community groups as proxies to interfere in the municipal election last fall.
Since last fall, reports of the People’s Republic of China’s interference in Canada’s democratic processes have been making headlines. Pressure has ramped up within the past month, with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau this week naming a special a “The next day, the Globe and Mail published an article based on Canadian Security and Intelligence Service documents alleging China’s consulate in Vancouver interfered with last fall’s municipal election.
“They’ve been doing it for a long, long time and nobody really paid attention, and nobody really discussed it,” she said. “Every election, no matter if it’s municipal, provincial or federal, you see a lot of new faces trying to work into each campaign.” Stewart told the Globe and Mail that invitations to Chinese community-group events dried up as his time in office went on. Tung said there are many such groups serving the interests of Beijing, despite many Chinese Canadians opposing that regime.
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