Politics Briefing: Foreign-interference inquiry begins with commissioner’s pledge to ‘get to the bottom’ of election meddling

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Hello, Commissioner Marie-Josée Hogue opened preliminary hearings of the foreign-interference inquiry today, vowing to uncover the truth about meddling in the 2019 and 2021 elections and recommend ways to limit countries such as China, Russia and India from trying to influence Canadian democracy. Allegations of sophisticated Chinese foreign-influence operations in the past two election campaigns were raised last year by The Globe and Mail, based on secret and top secret intelligence documents compiled by agents of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service. The CSIS documents and revelations that several MPs had also been targeted in disinformation campaigns by China need to...