Canada Knows About China’s Influence Attempts in Last 2 Federal Elections: CSIS Report

CSIS Report Reveals China’s Attempts to Influence Last 2 Federal Elections in Canada

February 1, 2024 TruthUSA

Canadian intelligence knows about China’s attempts to influence Canada’s past two federal elections, a declassified report from the Canadian Security and Intelligence Service (CSIS) revealed.

CSIS specifically highlighted the People’s Republic of China (PRC) as “by far the most significant threat” in the document obtained by Global News through an Access to Information submission.

“We know that the PRC sought to clandestinely and deceptively influence the 2019 and 2021 federal elections,” the agency stated in the report dated Feb. 24, 2023.

It added that the Chinese regime’s foreign interference activities are “significant, pervasive, and directed against all levels of government and civil society across the country.”

CSIS suggested in the report that Beijing leverages a variety of tools in its interference in Canada, including “the United Front Work Department, its diplomatic corps, and non-government assets such as community groups and trusted contacts.”

The United Front has been described as a primary foreign interference tool of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), according to a June 2020 analysis of the regime’s interference activities published by the Australian Strategic Policy Institute and cited by Public Safety Canada.

Public Inquiry

The declassified CSIS report was released as a public inquiry into foreign interference unfolds in Canada this week.

The inquiry was launched last September in response to a series of media reports detailing the CCP’s interference in Canadian elections, among various other instances of clandestine operations in Canada.

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