Federal Election Monitors Were More Focused on Interference From Russia Than China, Says Minister

A cabinet minister says that federal election monitors were more focused on Russian election interference than meddling by Beijing. Government House Leader Karina Gould told the ongoing foreign interference inquiry that during the 2019 federal election, the focus of election monitors was on Russia. “Certainly Russia was something we were concerned about which is why we created this whole infrastructure to protect our elections,” Ms. Gould said, as first reported by Blacklock’s Reporter. Ms. Gould had served as Minister of Democratic Institutions before the 2019 election and had pledged $7 million as part of a program to assess editorials and online news reporting deemed suspicious....