Morning Update: Ottawa invokes cabinet confidentiality in withholding foreign interference documents

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Good morning, Ottawa is facing pushback from Justice Marie-Josée Hogue for citing cabinet confidentiality in redacting records provided to the public inquiry investigating interference by China and other hostile states. Public Safety Minister Dominic LeBlanc had initially promised that the Commission into Foreign Interference would have full access to secret documents, including “all relevant cabinet documents” even if some of that sensitive information can’t be made available to Canadians. But a dispute has arisen after the government invoked cabinet confidence to redact some cabinet records and to deny the inquiry access to an unknown number of documents. Open this photo...