Mendicino Won’t Say if Panel That Found Elections ‘Free and Fair’ Received CSIS Documents Alleging China Interference

Signs outside an advance polling station in Burnaby, B.C., on Sept. 10, 2021. Jennifer Gauthier/Reuters

Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino has refused to say if an election integrity panel was given access to confidential Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) documents that allege China interfered in the last two federal elections.

This interference is alleged to have included providing support to 11 candidates, mostly Liberals, in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) in the 2019 election, and using various tactics to enable the Liberals to return to power with a minority government following the 2021 election .