Details of Beijing’s Alleged Candidate-Funding Network Emerge: Report

Chinese leader Xi Jinping arrives to attend the APEC Economic Leaders Meeting during the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation, APEC summit in Bangkok on Nov. 19, 2022. Jack Taylor/Pool Photo via AP

An unredacted intelligence document unveils details of Beijing’s alleged attempts to interfere in Canada’s 2019 election. It alleges that covert funds ran through a network of community groups to Canadian federal candidates to further China’s interests.

The Privy Council Office (PCO) document is from February 2020 and a heavily redacted version of it was filed earlier this month with a House of Commons committee. But an unredacted version was obtained by Global News, which reported exclusively on it in a story published Dec. 21.