BC Conservative Leader Briefed by CSIS on Foreign Interference: Report

The Canadian Security Intelligence Service has briefed Conservative Party of B.C. Leader John Rustad on the issue of foreign interference, according to a media report. Mr. Rustad, whose party has been surging in the polls and has welcomed defectors from competing party BC United, would have received the briefing sometime in July, theBreaker.news reported July 30. The CSIS briefing comes amid heightened awareness about meddling by the Chinese regime in Canada’s democratic processes, and ahead of the provincial election scheduled for October. “I spent about an hour or so talking to them about issues. But I won’t talk any further about what we discussed,” Rustad told theBreaker.news, noting it was CSIS that reached out to him....