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Why China’s Interference in Canada’s Election Mattered

The loss of seats changed control over parliamentary committees and the ability to expose wrongdoing.
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Why China’s Interference in Canada’s Election Mattered
A woman walks past the the Office of the Prime Minister and Privy Council building in the parliamentary precinct in downtown Ottawa, on June, 30, 2020. Adrian Wyld/The Canadian Press
Patricia Adams
Lawrence Solomon
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Canada’s press and pundits are understandably heaping scorn on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau for his glib claim that “not a single riding” was changed due to the foreign interference widely believed to have influenced Canada’s 2019 and 2021 federal elections.
Patricia Adams is an economist and president of the Energy Probe Research Foundation and Probe International, an independent think tank in Canada and around the world. She is the publisher of internet news services Three Gorges Probe and Odious Debts Online and the author or editor of numerous books. Her books and articles have been translated into Chinese, Spanish, Bengali, Japanese, and Bahasa Indonesia. She can be reached at [email protected]
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