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Foreign Meddling Didn’t Impact Canada Election Outcome: Inquiry

China ‘main perpetrator’ of foreign interference, report finds
Commission finds Trudeau’s Liberals would have won regardless

Justin Trudeau, Canada's prime minister, testifies before a foreign interference inquiry in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, on Wednesday, April 10, 2024. Trudeau was pressured to call the public hearing after a series of leaks last year to Canadian news outlets of intelligence reports on Chinese interference, the New York Times reports.Photographer: David Kawai/Bloomberg

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By Brian Platt

May 3, 2024 at 4:05 PM UTC

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China made some attempts to interfere in the last two Canadian elections but did not affect the overall result or undermine the integrity of the elections, a public inquiry concluded.

“It is generally impossible to draw a straight line between a particular incident and the outcome of an election,” Commissioner Marie-Josée Hogue, a Quebec judge, said in an initial report published Friday.