RCMP not investigating claims of election meddling, security officials say; Trudeau launches China election meddling probes

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I think the best option for him is to hold up in that situation. Yes, got pressure from both side, but still can stay. He will lose control immediately if only one side pressure applies.

LOL!两边压力要平衡，和很符合浅谈君的骑墙理论

 

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Tara Denham is a member of the Security and Intelligence Threats to Elections Task Force (SITE), a body set up to monitor elections interference.

She told MPs that the task force was aware that anti-Conservative messages were widely distributed on WeChat, a Chinese social media app, during the last election.

But Denham said SITE couldn't determine whether those messages came from foreign sources.

Former Conservative B.C. MP Kenny Chiu, who has been a vocal critic of China, has said he was the target of propaganda and disinformation on WeChat durng the last election campaign.

Former Conservative MP Kenny Chiu in the House of Commons on April 13, 2021. (Adrian Wyld/The Canadian Press)

He lost his Vancouver-area seat to the Liberal candidate and has claimed China played a role in that defeat.

其实就是几个落选议员要搞事。其实华人投保守党还是挺多的。但对中国强硬对华人有什么好处？落选也很正常。

 

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Chinese Canadians walk tightrope in political arena amid foreign interference debate​

Mark Lee, who was a candidate for councillor in Richmond, B.C., in the 2022 municipal election, poses for a photograph in Vancouver, on Monday, March 6, 2023. Lee says he knows what it's like to walk the fine line faced by fellow Chinese Canadians entering the political arena amid scrutiny of alleged foreign interference. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck

Chinese Canadians walk tightrope in political arena amid foreign interference debate

Chinese Canadian figures across the political spectrum say they worry, with varying emphasis, about interference by Chinese authorities, a lack of nuance, racism and the use of the debate to push wedges into ethnic Chinese communities.

www.ctvnews.ca

 

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Canada's Trudeau launches China election meddling probes

An "independent special rapporteur" will examine reports of Chinese meddling in recent elections.

www.bbc.com