{"id":53184,"date":"2023-03-07T09:18:42","date_gmt":"2023-03-07T00:18:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/mar\/07\/canada-pm-justin-trudeau-special-rapporteur-probe-foreign-interference"},"modified":"2023-03-07T09:18:42","modified_gmt":"2023-03-07T00:18:42","slug":"justin-trudeau-to-appoint-special-rapporteur-to-probe-foreign-interference-in-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=53184","title":{"rendered":"Justin Trudeau to appoint special rapporteur to probe foreign interference in elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Move comes after allegations of Chinese interference in recent Canadian elections and amid mounting political pressure to push back against Beijing<\/p>\n<p>Canada\u2019s prime minister, Justin Trudeau, has said he will appoint a special rapporteur to probe allegations of Chinese interference in recent elections amid <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/mar\/02\/calls-grow-in-canada-for-inquiry-into-alleged-election-interference-by-china\">mounting political pressure<\/a> to push back against Beijing and to maintain public confidence in democratic institutions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe believe deeply in the values of freedom, openness, and dialogue. These values are not universally shared by every government around the world,\u201d Trudeau said at a press conference on Monday evening. \u201cIndeed, I don\u2019t know if in our lifetime, we\u2019ve seen democracy in a more precarious place. Many state actors and non state actors want to foster instability here and elsewhere, to advance their own interests.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/mar\/07\/canada-pm-justin-trudeau-special-rapporteur-probe-foreign-interference\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Move comes after allegations of Chinese interference in recent Canadian elections and amid mounting political pressure to push back against BeijingCanada\u2019s prime minister, Justin Trudeau, has said he will appoint a special rapporteur to probe allegatio&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":483,"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-53184","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\/53184","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\/483"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53184"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53185,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53184\/revisions\/53185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}