A member of Canada’s parliament testified that high school students from China were transported by bus to vote for him in a party election that is at the centre of a federal inquiry into interference in Canadian elections by China and other foreign countries.
According to the report, there were also indications that the Chinese Consulate had coerced the students to back Dong by issuing “veiled threats” related to their visas and their families back in China.Han Dong has denied receiving help from the Chinese government.Dong’s testimony was part of an ongoing federal inquiry into foreign meddling in Canada’s political system, especially the general elections of 2019 and 2021.
Canada under the government of Trudeau - whose Liberal Party candidates were generally favoured by China, according to Canadian news media - has longfaced criticism for not doing enough to combat foreign meddling. But much of Tuesday was spent on Dong’s 2019 party election in his electoral district in Toronto, Don Valley North, before that year’s general election.
A government-appointed special rapporteur said last year that the party election had been marked by “irregularities,” including “busing in of people and students,” and that there was “well-grounded suspicion” that Dong had benefited from the consulate’s support. But Ishmael said the party nomination process was “rigorous,” adding that he did not believe it was “vulnerable to foreign interference.”
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