Some Canadian MPs, Senators ‘Witting’ Participants in Foreign Interference, Says National Security Committee

David McGuinty, chair of the National Security and Intelligence Committee of Parliamentarians, holds a news conference to release the committee's annual report in Ottawa on March 12, 2020. Fred Chartrand/The Canadian Press

Some Canadian parliamentarians are “witting” participants in interference efforts by foreign powers, says a committee of parliamentarians that oversees national security.

In a June 3 report, the National Security and Intelligence Committee of Parliamentarians said it has seen “troubling intelligence that some Parliamentarians are, in the words of the intelligence services, ’semi-witting or witting' participants in the efforts of foreign states to interfere in our politics.”