Former Top Officials Can’t Recall 2017 Memo on Chinese Regime Interference

Michael Wernick, Jarislowsky Chair in Public Sector Management at the University of Ottawa, waits to appear as a witness at the Standing Committee on Procedure and House Affairs investigating foreign election inference on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on April 18, 2023. Spencer Colby/The Canadian Press

Two former top federal officials who had alleged links to a 2017 memo to the prime minister on Chinese regime interference told a committee of MPs they have no recollection of the matter.

“I have no memory of seeing that note,” Michael Wernick told the House of Commons Procedure and House Affairs Committee (PROC) on April 18.