Phillips: Puzzling revelations about Justin Trudeau’s confrontation with China via torontostar
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is making a bad situation worse with his latest explanations about alleged Chinese government meddling in our elections.a report by Global News that Beijing targeted this country
If true, that would be an outrageous assault by a foreign power on our democracy. And right out of the gate, on the day the report by Global’s Sam Cooper was published, the prime minister appeared to confirm the substance of it.including China, continue to “play aggressive games with our institutions, with our democracies.” In other words, given an opportunity to deny it, or even to say it was news to him, he gave Canadians every reason to believe Global had it basically right.
But that was always beside the point, given the substance of the Global report. It led to a host of legitimate questions — including which candidates may have benefited from China’s campaign, which ones were elected, and why didn’t the government act on this information that it received at least 10 months ago. Conservative MPs peppered ministers with such questions, but got only non-answers and obfuscation in return.
And what precisely did he tell Xi? Did he “raise concern” about interference in general, or more specifically about interference in elections? It’s not clearto reporters exactly what he told Xi.
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