Federal Election Monitors Were More Focused on Interference From Russia Than China, Says Minister

Liberal Member of Parliament Karina Gould appears as a witness at the Public Inquiry Into Foreign Interference in Federal Electoral Processes and Democratic Institutions in Ottawa on April 10, 2024. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick

A cabinet minister says that federal election monitors were more focused on Russian election interference than meddling by Beijing.

Government House Leader Karina Gould told the ongoing foreign interference inquiry that during the 2019 federal election, the focus of election monitors was on Russia.