Inquiry Report Confirms Beijing’s Meddling in Canadian Democracy, Conservatives Say

The foreign interference inquiry’s initial report confirms that Beijing interfered in Canadian democracy, Conservatives said in a statement following the release of the report by Justice Marie-Josée Hogue on May 3. “The Commissioner confirmed that ‘interference occurred in the last two general elections,’ that it impacted those elections and ‘the right of Canadians to have their electoral processes and democratic institutions free from covert influence,'” the Tories said in a statement on May 3, quoting excerpts from the inquiry’s report. “In looking more closely at examples of Beijing’s interference, the Commissioner also confirmed that foreign interference ‘diminished the ability of some voters to cast an informed vote.’”...