“My overall sense was that I really didn’t learn anything in the briefings that I didn’t regularly read in the New York Times or the Globe and Mail or the Toronto Star,” he said.
“Listening to briefings on things that I think … were probably not actionable and … entirely known to us was not a good use of time and probably not a good use of resources.”
The briefing note said that the SITE Task Force saw no evidence foreign countries were targeting Elections Canada or the electoral system. It also said that there was no evidence of foreign countries directly interfering in “the digital information ecosystems” around the 2019 election.
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The Foreign Interference Commission inquiry, led by Quebec judge Marie-Josee Hogue, expects to hear testimony from more than 40 people, including community members, political party representatives and federal election officials.
Han Dong, who now sits as an independent MP, left the Liberal caucus after it was alleged he willingly participated in Chinese interference efforts and won his seat with Beijing’s help in 2019 — claims he denies.
Chan is suing the Canadian Security Intelligence Service and others over allegations the spy agency surveilled him and had concerns about improper activities with Chinese officials.
The commission’s counsel introduced a document from the SITE Task Force detailing a briefing that was delivered in 2021 that outlined lessons learned from the 2019 federal election.
The document did say that while it observed “human actors” from China, India and Pakistan engaged in foreign interference activities targeting certain ridings and candidates, those actions did not meet the threshold to initiate criminal investigations.
The platform also promised that if the Conservatives formed government, Ottawa would investigate Huawei’s “role in providing surveillance capabilities that have been used against the Uyghur people and other persecuted minorities in China.”
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