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House Hansard - 133

44th Parl. 1st Sess.
November 23, 2022 02:00PM
  • Nov/23/22 2:26:49 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister met with the Chinese president, and his office said he “raised our serious concerns around interference activities in Canada.” Was the Prime Minister ever briefed about any of these “interference activities” that the Prime Minister says went on in Canada?
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  • Nov/23/22 2:27:42 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, what specific interference was the Prime Minister referring to when he raised his “serious concerns around interference” with the Chinese president?
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  • Nov/23/22 2:31:07 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, when we ask the Prime Minister about China's interference in 2019 election financing, all he does is bluster. He compares us to Donald Trump, who denies the U.S. presidential results. That is nonsense. There is one person who spoke about the legitimacy of the 2019 federal election and that is the guy who won, the Prime Minister. Chinese interference is a very serious matter. We need to know in order to prevent it from happening again. The Prime Minister must stop posturing. He must tell us which candidates received Chinese funding and, above all, how China went about it.
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  • Nov/23/22 2:32:26 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, it is hard to keep up with the Prime Minister's stance on Chinese interference. In Parliament, he does not consider the issue important enough to give opposition parties serious answers, but at the G20, he was dashing through the halls to go talk to Chinese President Xi Jinping about it. Here in the House, he is not aware of anything, but at the G20, he was aware and concerned enough to discuss it with the Chinese President. That raises a simple question. Does the Prime Minister know all about Chinese interference and is he hiding that information from us, or did he accost Xi Jinping on the basis of a newspaper article alone? Either the Prime Minister is not being straight with us or he is not very savvy. Which is it?
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  • Nov/23/22 2:33:04 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, the member from the Bloc Québécois will say just about anything. The reality is that we always take seriously the importance of protecting Canadians from existing interference by different countries. Everyone knows that. However, we can also confirm that in all the security briefings I have had with our intelligence experts and those who monitor our elections, the integrity of our elections has never been an issue.
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