It’s been a sticky couple of weeks for Canada’s natural governing party, as the Liberals like to call themselves. Anonymous sources from CSIS, Canada’s intelligence agency, leaked information to two major Canadian media outlets, The Globe and Mail and Global News. The reports say China interfered in Canada’s two most recent federal elections, and that CSIS alerted the government, but that despite warnings the Liberals – who won both elections with a minority government – did nothing.
It’s simultaneously a crisis for the Liberals and a bit of a yawn. Canadians already knew Justin Trudeau was soft on China’s ‘basic dictatorship’. If there was to be foreign interference from one of the most aggressive world powers on the map – and why wouldn’t there be? – they wouldn’t expect him to stand up to it.
As journalist Terry Glavin wrote for the National Post:
The contested details about Beijing’s election-monkeywrenching operations in 2019 and 2021 are almost irrelevant.
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