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What you need to know about the foreign interference inquiry
THE DECIBEL STAFFMENAKA RAMAN-WILMS
STEVEN CHASESENIOR PARLIAMENTARY REPORTER
PUBLISHED YESTERDAY
The long-awaited inquiry into foreign interference begins today. The Globe and Mail’s reporting, based on top-secret CSIS documents, of sophisticated strategies by China to disrupt Canada’s democracy and federal elections set off a firestorm. Now, the public is about to learn how the federal government handled this information and what lessons can be learned to fend off actions by foreign states in the future.
The Globe’s senior parliamentary reporter, Steven Chase, joins the podcast to explain the stakes of the inquiry, what is being examined and the main players who will dominate the headlines in the months to come.
What you need to know about the foreign interference inquiry
The inquiry will look into interference by foreign states in the 2019 and 2021 federal elections
www.theglobeandmail.com
The first public hearings on foreign interference in Canada have begun. What you need to know
What is the timeline?
The first set of public hearings began Jan. 29 in Ottawa with an opening statement by Hogue(opens in a new tab).This round of "preliminary" hearings will carry over five days and focus on "the challenge of making as much of the information received by the Commission as possible public," according to the inquiry's website.
Among those on the witness list for week one are national security expert professors, former CSIS director Richard Fadden, current CSIS director David Vigneault, deputy chief of signals intelligence at the Communications Security Establishment (CSE) Alia Tayyeb, deputy national security and intelligence adviser Dan Rogers, and Public Safety, Democratic Institutions and Intergovernmental Affairs Minister Dominic LeBlanc.
The commission will then take a pause on public hearings until March when the examination of the alleged past election interference by various foreign states and non-state actors will begins.
A third set of hearings, expected to be related to the second phase of the inquiry's mandate, is tentatively scheduled to begin in September 2024.
Trudeau, key election players to testify at foreign interference hearings. What you need to know
The public hearings portion of the federal inquiry into foreign interference in Canadian elections and democratic institutions are picking back up this week. Here's what you need to know.
