Foreign Interference Needn’t Determine Election Outcome for Winners to Feel Indebted to China: CSIS Official

Published on April 6, 2024

A Canadian intelligence official says while Beijing’s attempts at foreign interference may not have had a decisive impact on Canada’s 2021 election outcome in a specific riding, such covert activities can still leave the elected candidate feeling indebted to the communist regime. At a closed-door hearing, the Public Inquiry into Foreign Interference received a summary of interviews with intelligence officials that said, “even if FI [foreign interference] did not directly lead to the election of a given candidate, that interference could nonetheless have an impact on the relationship with that candidate, and by extension the communities they represent.” For example, it noted, “foreign interference by the PRC [People’s Republic of China] could affect a candidate’s actions while in office if they felt indebted to the PRC for assisting in their election.”...

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