CSIS director David Vigneault has testified at the foreign interference inquiry that the agency had intelligence before Canada’s 2019 election that China’s government attempted to funnel about $250,000 through a network, possibly to interfere in Canadian elections. Global News first reported on this activity in 2022, citing national security sources. As David Akin explains, the commission has received a summary of classified material produced by CSIS that includes many of the details Global News first reported.
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