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Member of Parliament

René Villemure

  • Member of Parliament
  • Member of Parliament
  • Bloc Québécois
  • Trois-Rivières
  • Quebec
  • Voting Attendance: 63%
  • Expenses Last Quarter: $100,349.98

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Context: House Hansard - 163 - Feb/17/23
Mr. René Villemure (Trois-Rivières, BQ)
  • Feb/17/23 11:56:10 a.m.
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Mr. Speaker, China's election interference is a threat to democracy that neither partisanship nor denial will help vanquish. We must all work to make elections impervious to foreign manipulation. The problem is, the government is hiding the truth from people. Not only was it aware of what was going on, but it discussed the matter with allied countries. Not only did it know candidates had received illegal contributions, but it knew which candidates and even refunded the money. When will the government understand that it cannot overcome Chinese interference by being as opaque as China?
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Context: House Hansard - 163 - Feb/17/23
Mr. René Villemure (Trois-Rivières, BQ)
  • Feb/17/23 11:54:49 a.m.
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Mr. Speaker, a report from The Globe and Mail laid bare the full extent of China's interference in the 2021 federal election. According to the article, secret services carried out a major operation involving illegal campaign contributions and media manipulation. This is extremely worrisome, but it would be a mistake to challenge the legitimacy of the election and merely consider it a partisan issue. The real issue is how easy it was for these foreign actors to manipulate our elections. This needs to be addressed transparently, but the government has been denying there was any interference and hiding the truth for months. Quebeckers want to know whether the government is ever going to take this threat seriously.
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