Inquiry investigating election interference will hear evidence March 27-April 10
The inquiry into foreign election interference will dive deeper into whether China, Russia and others meddled in Canada's past two federal elections later this month.
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Liberals support push to have public inquiry probe claims that parliamentarians helped foreign states
Public Safety Minister Dominic LeBlanc says the federal government will support calls to have the public inquiry probing foreign election interference take on shocking new claims that some parliamentarians have «wittingly» conspired with foreign governments.
Liberal government tables bill aimed at curbing foreign interference
The federal government has tabled a bill aimed at countering foreign interference, just days after a public inquiry said attempts by other countries to meddle in Canada's last two elections undermined Canadians' trust in democracy.
More foreign interference action coming after inquiry report, India arrests: LeBlanc
Canada’s public safety minister says legislation will be introduced “very soon” that will strengthen measures used to combat foreign interference, but adds he’s confident in the safeguards already in place and the agencies overseeing them.
Some 2019 candidates ‘appeared willing’ to engage with foreign interference: Hogue inquiry
A handful of candidates in Canada’s 2019 federal election “appeared willing” to go along with foreign interference schemes, a federal public inquiry has found.
Public inquiry into foreign meddling in Canada's elections drops its first report today
Canadians could get a clearer sense today of the extent to which China and other countries meddled in the past two federal elections — and whether the government and security agencies did enough to share that information — when the public inquiry on foreign interference releases its first report.
Conservatives ask interference inquiry judge to rule elections were flawed
The Conservative Party of Canada has urged the judge overseeing the Public Inquiry into Foreign Interference to conclude that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau ignored repeated warnings about foreign interference in the last two general elections for partisan gain, the first time the party has formally made such an accusation.
Trudeau, ministers to testify at foreign interference inquiry today
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and a handful of cabinet ministers will take questions today about what they were told about — and how they responded to — allegations of foreign interference in the past two federal elections.
Failure to communicate: what week two of the foreign interference inquiry revealed
Commissioner Marie-Josée Hogue's mandate for the foreign interference inquiry is sprawling — but one of her key tasks is to examine and assess the flow of information related to alleged meddling in the previous two federal elections.
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