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#Canada: CCP intervention in elections 2019 and 2021. Charles Burton, senior fellow at the Centre for Advancing Canada's Interests Abroad at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute, @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill

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🗓️ 2 May 2023

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#Canada: CCP intervention in elections 2019 and 2021. Charles Burton, senior fellow at the Centre for Advancing Canada's Interests Abroad at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute, @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill
https://ottawacitizen.com/opinion/burton-to-protect-canadian-sovereignty-we-need-transparency-about-foreign-influence

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0:00.0

This is CBS I In The World. I'm John Bachel with my colleague in

0:08.5

friend Gordon Chang. We go to Canada, a headline in the Ottawa

0:12.9

Citizen. To protect Canadian sovereignty, we need transparency

0:17.2

about foreign influence. This is an opinion piece by Charles

0:20.0

Burton of the MacDonald-Lowry Institute. When we welcome to

0:24.0

help us first, explicate this matter of where the non-transparency

0:28.9

lies in the general theory that there was Chinese intervention

0:35.3

with money and other influence peddling, not only in the 19

0:39.8

general election, but also in the 2021 general election,

0:43.5

returning Prime Minister Trudeau to authority, though with a

0:47.0

minority government. However, there is fresh information that

0:51.8

very well connects to this larger story. Always coming in,

0:56.0

Canada sees Canada as a high priority target. That's a

1:00.1

quote, an employee's quote, incentives and punishment. That's a

1:03.8

quote, as part of a vast influence network directed at

1:07.6

legislatures, business executives, and diaspora communities in

1:12.2

Canada, according to a top secret intelligence assessment from

1:17.0

the Canadian Security Intelligence Service. This within these

1:21.1

hours, Charles, a very good evening to you. It was difficult

1:26.5

before to believe that all of this wasn't leading to fire. But

1:30.8

now the Canadian Security Service putting this document into the

1:35.3

hands of the general public. What is the story, Charles? What

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