China’s interference in our elections is no surprise

While Canada has always practised ‘strategic engagement’ with China due to its economic importance, there have long been warnings of its malicious intent.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government appears willfully blind, and that endangers Canada’s international reputation, its relationship with its intelligence partners, and its sovereignty, writes Andrew Caddell. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY ANDREW CADDELL

March 8, 2023

KAMOURASKA, QUE.—In 1984, while working as an assistant to former solicitor-general Bob Kaplan in the Pierre Trudeau government, the minister passed along a gift he received from the Chinese Embassy. It was an ornate calendar, which did not suit the office of the minister ...

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