2021 Election Monitors Were Informed Beijing Sought to Interfere in Favour of Liberals: Document

Election monitors during the 2021 federal election were aware that Beijing attempted to help Liberal Party candidates get elected, according a document presented to the foreign interference inquiry. A confidential memo released April 8 by the foreign interference commission entitled “After Action Report: 2021 Federal Election,” was prepared by the Security and Intelligence Threats to Elections Task Force in December 2021. The document said that “the People’s Republic of China preferred to support Liberal Party of Canada candidates and oppose the Conservative Party of Canada.” The memo, which was first covered by Blacklock’s Reporter, also said that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) used third-party “proxies” to conduct foreign interference on its behalf during the 2021 election and that even though CCP representatives knew they should not be involved in Canada’s elections, they “took steps to interfere regardless.”...