Confronting Beijing’s meddling outweighs concerns over politician participation, says Uyghur advocate

Panellists from diaspora groups provided the Foreign Interference Commission with 'courageous and heartbreaking' context to examine the full scope of the problem, says a former CSIS official.

Justice Marie-Josée Hogue will hear from nearly 50 witnesses and examine thousands of pages of documents before the first stage of hearings for the public inquiry into foreign election interference in the last two federal elections is complete on April 10, with her initial report due May 3.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY STUART BENSON

April 3, 2024

Despite threatening to boycott the public inquiry into foreign election interference, prominent Uyghur rights activist Mehmet Tohti says the high personal cost he and other members of the diaspora have paid in their advocacy against Beijing far outweighs his concerns over th...

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