{"id":63295,"date":"2024-04-13T01:29:26","date_gmt":"2024-04-12T16:29:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/apr\/12\/trudeau-canada-china-election-interference"},"modified":"2024-04-13T01:29:26","modified_gmt":"2024-04-12T16:29:26","slug":"canada-spies-under-pressure-over-foreign-meddling-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=63295","title":{"rendered":"Canada spies under pressure over foreign meddling reports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prime minister testified at inquiry into foreign interference that agency\u2019s report of China meddling wasn\u2019t relayed to him<\/p>\n<p>Canada\u2019s spy agency is under pressure after Justin Trudeau and his closest advisers say they were never made aware of a report that Beijing \u201cclandestinely and deceptively\u201d interfered in both the 2019 and 2021 federal elections.<\/p>\n<p>Canada is in the midst of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/apr\/05\/india-pakistan-interfere-canada-elections\">contentious public inquiry<\/a> \u201cexamining and assessing\u201d foreign interference by China, Russia, and other foreign states and non-state actors, and this week the prime minister, Justin Trudeau, testified under oath about the steps his government took to respond to the threat of meddling. In his appearance, which lasted nearly four hours, Trudeau insisted that despite the efforts from hostile states, previous federal elections \u201cheld in their integrity\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/apr\/12\/trudeau-canada-china-election-interference\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime minister testified at inquiry into foreign interference that agency\u2019s report of China meddling wasn\u2019t relayed to himCanada\u2019s spy agency is under pressure after Justin Trudeau and his closest advisers say they were never made aware of a report tha&#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":[246,41,244,50,712,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-americas","category-asia-pacific","category-canada","category-china","category-justin-trudeau","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\/63295","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=63295"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63296,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63295\/revisions\/63296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}