Influence networks backed by China’s Communist Party rulers represent an “existential threat” to Canada, says the Liberal chair of the Commons national defence committee, as Prime Minister Justin Trudeau faced an uproar over allegations he was advised before the 2019 election the Chinese government was funding Canadian candidates.
“My views are that this is far larger” than election interference allegations, said Scarborough-Guildwood MP John McKay. “The government of China is an existential threat to Canada on a multiplicity of levels, and we need to come to grips with that.”
“It’s more than the election,” said McKay. “It’s at the universities. It’s at the police stations. It’s at the Confucius Institutes. it’s at the exploitation of resources, et cetera, et cetera. I think it is far bigger than that.” “To be quite honest, I know that no matter what I say, Canadians continue to have questions about what we did and what we didn’t, and that is why an independent special rapporteur is going to be able to look at the entire landscape and dig deeply into everything anyone knew at any point,” he told reporters.
Trudeau and his top national security advisers have been reluctant to address direct questions about what the prime minister knew, when he learned it, and what he did at the time. But to date, the Liberal government’s statements have done little to quell criticism by its political rivals, and polls show the news is alarming to Canadians at large.
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