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PREVIEW: #CANADA: #PRC: Conversation with colleague Charles Burton re the continuing inquiry into PM Justin Trudeau's awareness, or unawareness, of information from his intelligence apparatus, CSIS, with regard to PRC interference in the General Elections

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John Batchelor

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🗓️ 17 April 2024

⏱️ 3 minutes

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PREVIEW: #CANADA: #PRC: Conversation with colleague Charles Burton re the continuing inquiry into PM Justin Trudeau's awareness, or unawareness, of information from his intelligence apparatus, CSIS, with regard to PRC interference in the General Elections of 2019 and 2021. More deails tonight.

Ottawa.


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0:00.0

This is John Bachelor, conversation with my colleague Charles Burton in Canada.

0:05.0

I'm about an extraordinary investigation underway.

0:08.0

The CCS, that's security for China, the spooks.

0:15.0

Information passed on to the Prime Minister and his office and his administration

0:20.0

that People's Republic of China agents had interfered in the general election of 2019 and

0:27.6

2021 with evidence.

0:31.2

Now the Prime Minister is testifying that he never received that information or that intelligence,

0:39.0

more that he never at first trusts information that comes from C.S.

0:46.0

Until he has it confirmed with his own apparatus.

0:50.0

This is Charles Burton on the extraordinary fact that Canada, a member of Five Eyes, has friction between its security services and the leader of the nation, Justin Trudeau.

1:09.4

Involving, of course, China, a bad actor.

1:13.9

Here's Charles Burton to explain.

1:16.2

The Chinese authorities that China had influence

1:21.0

over 11 members of parliament and 13 senior staffers in their offices and so on and so on.

1:27.7

I mean a terrific list of inappropriate activities undertaken by diplomatic elements in China, presumably on behalf

1:37.4

of the Chinese Minister of State Security or United Front Work Department to try and

1:42.0

influence Canada's policy towards China by influencing key policy makers.

1:48.0

So these documents were presented to the Commission after the director of Cises had testified and then we got

1:58.0

evidence last Wednesday which was supposed to be the last day of this current round of the hearings from the

2:04.0

Prime Minister's Office senior advisors including a man called Jeremy Brodhurst

2:09.4

and subsequently by the Prime Minister himself that said two points.

2:13.0

One is that they had never received the information in these briefing documents.

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