{"id":55590,"date":"2023-05-31T08:23:15","date_gmt":"2023-05-30T23:23:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/may\/31\/erin-otoole-china-targeted-me-in-election-says-2021-rival-to-canadas-trudeau"},"modified":"2023-05-31T08:23:15","modified_gmt":"2023-05-30T23:23:15","slug":"erin-otoole-china-targeted-me-in-election-says-2021-rival-to-canadas-trudeau","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=55590","title":{"rendered":"Erin O\u2019Toole: China targeted me in election, says 2021 rival to Canada\u2019s Trudeau"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ex-leader of Conservatives says Canadian Security Intelligence briefed him on a \u2018Chinese-orchestrated campaign\u2019 to manipulate the vote<\/p>\n<p>Canada\u2019s spy agency told former Conservative party leader Erin O\u2019Toole that China campaigned to discredit him and suppress votes ahead of the 2021 election he lost to Justin Trudeau\u2019s Liberals, O\u2019Toole has said.<\/p>\n<p>In a briefing on Friday, the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (Csis) informed O\u2019Toole about intelligence saying Beijing had targeted him in 2021, when he was Conservative leader and running to defeat Trudeau.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/may\/31\/erin-otoole-china-targeted-me-in-election-says-2021-rival-to-canadas-trudeau\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ex-leader of Conservatives says Canadian Security Intelligence briefed him on a \u2018Chinese-orchestrated campaign\u2019 to manipulate the voteCanada\u2019s spy agency told former Conservative party leader Erin O\u2019Toole that China campaigned to discredit him and supp&#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":[246,244,50,667,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-americas","category-canada","category-china","category-espionage","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55590","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=55590"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55591,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55590\/revisions\/55591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}