Trudeau Responds to Leaked CSIS Files Saying Beijing Interfered in 2021 Election to Support a Liberal Minority

Trudeau Responds to Leaked CSIS Files Saying Beijing Interfered in 2021 Election to Support a Liberal Minority
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau listens to a question during a news conference in Ottawa, Feb.17, 2023. The Canadian Press/Adrian Wyld
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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has responded to a news report about leaked Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) documents detailing how China used a strategy to interfere in the 2021 federal election in order to return the Liberals to office.

The Feb. 17 Globe and Mail article cited top-secret CSIS documents covering the period before and after the September 2021 election campaign which resulted in a minority Liberal government. That result was one of the goals of the interference, while Beijing also sought the defeat of Conservative MPs it deemed critical of the regime, the Globe reported.