{"id":53039,"date":"2023-03-02T10:11:26","date_gmt":"2023-03-02T01:11:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/mar\/02\/calls-grow-in-canada-for-inquiry-into-alleged-election-interference-by-china"},"modified":"2023-03-02T10:11:26","modified_gmt":"2023-03-02T01:11:26","slug":"calls-grow-in-canada-for-inquiry-into-alleged-election-interference-by-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=53039","title":{"rendered":"Calls grow in Canada for inquiry into alleged election interference by China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prime minister Justin Trudeau has acknowledged attempts by China to meddle in elections but has resisted launching a public inquiry<\/p>\n<p>Canadian opposition parties stepped up their push for a broad public inquiry into alleged foreign election interference, particularly by China, a move that Liberal prime minister Justin Trudeau has not yet endorsed.<\/p>\n<p>Recent media reports have alleged ongoing Chinese interference in Canada\u2019s elections, with Trudeau this week denying one article saying his office was told by Canada\u2019s spy agency to drop a Chinese Canadian candidate in 2019 because of his ties to Beijing.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/mar\/02\/calls-grow-in-canada-for-inquiry-into-alleged-election-interference-by-china\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime minister Justin Trudeau has acknowledged attempts by China to meddle in elections but has resisted launching a public inquiryCanadian opposition parties stepped up their push for a broad public inquiry into alleged foreign election interference, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[244,50,712],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-canada","category-china","category-justin-trudeau"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53039"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53039\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53040,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53039\/revisions\/53040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}