Tory MP Alleges Election Integrity Panel Was Aware of Election Interference but Didn’t Raise Alarm

Conservative MP and foreign affairs critic Michael Chong says the non-partisan panel created by the Liberal government in 2019 to assess and maintain election integrity was “not successful” in its work during the 2021 federal election, alleging that it did not alert Canadians of foreign interference despite being aware of it.
“I hope the PCO [Privy Council Office] assesses that the Critical Election Incident Public Protocol was NOT successful,” Chong wrote on Twitter on Feb. 26, claiming that the panel knew about alleged Beijing’s election interference but didn’t raise alarm.
Chong wrote that the G7 Rapid Response Mechanism (RRM) of Global Affairs Canada (GAC) “was following Chinese Communist Party interference targeting Conservative candidates like Kenny Chiu” during the 2021 federal election….

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