Election Candidates ‘Appeared Willing’ to Be Involved in Foreign Interference: CSIS Intel

(L-R) Deputy National Security and Intelligence Adviser of the Privy Council Office Dan Rogers, CSIS Director David Vigneault, and Deputy Chief of Signals Intelligence at Communications Security Establishment Alia Tayyeb, appear at the Public Inquiry into Foreign Interference in Federal Electoral Processes and Democratic Institutions hearings in Ottawa on Feb. 1, 2024. Patrick Doyle/The Canadian Press

Intelligence released by the federal government aligns with previously leaked information that Chinese regime actors meddled with 11 candidates in the 2019 federal elections, and some appeared willing.

“Reporting indicated that 11 political candidates and 13 political staff members were assessed to be either implicated in or impacted by, this group of threat actors,” says an intelligence summary presented at the Public Inquiry into Foreign Interference on April 4.