Election Meddling Testimony Expected When Foreign Interference Hearings Return March 27

Commissioner Justice Marie-Josée Hogue listens to a lawyer speak at the Public Inquiry Into Foreign Interference in Federal Election Processes and Democratic Institutions in Ottawa on Feb. 2, 2024. The Canadian Press/Adrian Wyld

A fresh round of public hearings in the public inquiry on foreign interference in Canada’s federal elections will begin on March 27, focusing on key evidence related to alleged foreign meddling in the 2019 and 2021 federal elections.

“These hearings will address issues at the core of our mandate,” Commissioner Marie-Josée Hogue said in a press release on March 11. “The Commission will hear evidence on the question of interference by foreign states or non-state actors in the 2019 and 2021 federal elections, including any potential impact on those elections.”