A government commission said Tuesday that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government was “inadequate transparent” about foreign intervention in Canada politics, and sometimes in the country’s last two general elections by foreign powers, including China and India. It took “very long” against efforts to intervene. .
The commission said, “Canadian democratic institutions are shaken, and its restoration is essential.” Final reportWhich summarized 18 months of hearing, testimony and scrutiny of the ranked intelligence documents.
The government’s efforts to rebuild confidence are “pieces and faulty,” said Josho, a court court, who led the commission.
The final report included 51 recommendations by the Commission to strengthen the Canadian electoral system, which includes the strict rules of the country’s political parties and the financing of the third party during the campaigns and monitoring the supervision of the intelligence during the campaigns. There are up to
Justice Hugo said that half the recommendations should be “implemented immediately, perhaps before the next election.”
The Trudeau government did not have an immediate response to this report.
Experts said Mr Trudeau’s recent announcement, which is deeply unpopular, that he will retire as the Liberal Party leader and Prime Minister, and is unlikely that the recommendations of the Commission can be submitted before the next election. Is The members of the Liberal Party are expected to elect Mr Trudeau’s successor by the beginning of March, and the general election is likely to be a few months later.
“It seems regrettable that the timeline makes it impossible to implement any of these recommended security arrangements.” Ryan AlfordAn Associate Law Professor at Lake Head University in Thunder Bay in Ontario. “Sadly, and perhaps, surprisingly, it will reinforce the idea that the efforts that have taken place in the last two federal elections are inevitable in this election.”
The release of the report ended a year -long public investigation into foreign intervention, which was strongly opposed by Mr Trudeau’s government. Finally, it faced it only after an unusual series of leaked intelligence reports to Canada’s news outlets, which revealed Chinese intervention in the last two general elections in 2021 and 2019.
In addition to months of public hearings, the release of witnesses’ oath -taking and intelligence reports has revealed how growing foreign powers – especially China and India – supported or opposed some candidates in the elections in Canada. Have tried to advance their interests.
According to the inquiry commission, although the overall result of the elections was not affected, the inquiry commission, according to the inquiry commission, could affect a handful of individual species.
China and India focused on their activities in the electoral districts of Toronto and Vancouver, where large and organized Chinese and Indian diamonds are inhabited by many voters by Canadian political parties. Public hearings showed that China and its proxies tried to weaken the Central Opposition Conservative Party candidates, which have adopted a tough line on China’s record on human rights and its control over Hong Kong.
On the contrary, the Chinese government and its proxy support Mr. Trudeau’s Liberal Party candidates. After Mr Trudeau was first elected in 2015, he called for friendly relations with Beijing, including a free trade agreement, and allowing Chinese telecommunications company Huawei Technologies to work in Canada Demonstrate warnings about.
Witnesses and intelligence reports show how foreign governments and their proxies have tried to influence the elections by targeting Dye -Vara members, many of which their original countries and business and other relations. I am relatives. Although the Daspura communities were declared the focal point of foreign intervention, the Commission did not make strong recommendations about the safety of these voters. Dennis MulinaroA former national security analyst for the Canadian government who now teaches legal education at Ontario Tech University.
Mr Mulinaro said, “Foreign interference is taking place in the Daspura communities.” If this is not in the Daspura communities, you do not have any foreign interference, and its report is relatively quiet about it. It was. “
On charges of taking advantage of Chinese intervention, Mr Trudeau and his government reduced its threat. But a series of intelligence reports to the Globe and Mail newspaper and the Global News Television Network forced Mr Trudeau to order an inquiry.
Canada has also accused the Indian government of plans to kill 2023 near Vancouver, a Canadian leader of the Sikh movement in India, Hardp Singh Najjar.
Inquiry shows how foreign powers have exploited weaknesses in Canada’s democratic system, especially in the vague acts of its political parties. Political parties choose candidates for the general election in the nomination races, which do not have loose rules and outdoors.
Although party owners used the system to soften their muscles, the nomination was the same as the Inquiry Commission described as “gateway to foreign states that want to interfere with our democratic process.”
With a large Chinese Daspura in the race for a liberal party nomination in Toronto district, buses backed dozens of foreign students from China, a candidate from China, Han Dong, who was in favor of Beijing.
According to a special report by the Parliamentary Committee, the Chinese Consulate told the students that they had to vote for Mr. Dong to hold the students’ visas. Mr Dong won the nomination in the district, which was a liberal stronghold, and then traveled to victory in the general election.
When details of foreign intervention were revealed in public hearings, Parliament made legislation last summer, which formed a registry of foreign agents and because of this, it is easy to investigate and prosecute foreign intervention. Gone
In the final report, Justice Hugo wrote that “isolated cases where the results of the nomination of foreign interference have had some impact on the results of the election district. The efforts of today are assured of today’s minimal impact. “
Daf Cocner, the founder of Democracy WatchAn independent watchdog organization, said the final report does not reduce foreign intervention, which is not known much.
Mr Konakar said, “Just being defective has the least impact.” He said add documentary cases, which are not minimal. And the murder of a Canadian citizen, and the danger that members of the Dia -Vara from many countries feel. This is not the least. “
