OTTAWA, Ontario (LifeSiteNews) — Documents from a federal inquiry looking at meddling in Canada’s past two elections by foreign state actors show that agents of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) allegedly worked as Elections Canada poll workers in the 2021 campaign.
According to the documents, former Conservative MP Leona Alleslev noted in a sworn affidavit that she was told by Chinese Canadians they knew foreign operatives were working at polling stations.
“Around half the Chinese Canadian constituents she canvassed would tell Ms. Alleslev they were afraid to vote for her because they feared repercussions against themselves or their family members both in Canada and in China,” said Alleslev’s as per her affidavit, which was filed with the Commission on Foreign Interference.
According to the affidavit, as reported by Blacklock’s Reporter, some people claimed that they took the threat “seriously because there were agents of the Chinese Communist Party working in the local Elections Canada office and in the polling stations or monitoring outside of the significantly reduced number of polling stations to watch who voted.”
Despite this, Alleslev did not let Elections Canada or the Office of the Commissioner of Canada Elections know about these concerns while on her campaign due to “her experience with Elections Canada’s lack of clear process, unresponsiveness and inaction on other matters.”
Besides Alleslev, who lost the 2021 election to Liberal MP Leah Taylor Roy, other MPs have accused Elections Canada of not being responsive when it came to such complaints. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberals won the 2021 election by a narrow margin.
The Foreign Interference Commission was convened to “examine and assess the interference by China, Russia, and other foreign states or non-state actors, including any potential impacts, to confirm the integrity of, and any impacts on, the 43rd and 44th general elections (2019 and 2021 elections) at the national and electoral district levels.”
The commission is headed by Justice Marie-Josée Hogue, who had earlier said she and her lawyers will remain “impartial” and will not be influenced by politics. In January, Hogue said that she would “uncover the truth whatever it may be.”
Thus far, the Commission has revealed that there were 13 electoral ridings with suspicious activity. The Commission is currently on break and will resume regular hearings in September.
As for Trudeau, he has praised China for its “basic dictatorship” and has labeled the authoritarian nation as his favorite country other than his own.
To date, Trudeau has been coy and has never explicitly stated whether he was ever told by the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) that CCP agents’ actions were in breach of the nation’s Elections Act.
A few months ago, the head of Canada’s intelligence agency testified under oath that he gave Trudeau multiple warnings that agents of the CCP were going after Conservative MPs, yet the prime minister has denied receiving these warnings.