Mr. Vigneault said he repeatedly told Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his cabinet that Chinese interference in the elections was clandestine and deceptive but did not affect the overall results of the vote. ”It is indeed something that I communicated,” he said. “In our assessment we saw foreign interference in both the 2019 and 2021 elections.”
Mr. Vigneault told the inquiry he did not make the comments in the briefing note because he was discussing very specific incidents of foreign interference with the Prime Minister.This is the daily Evening Update newsletter.
The Supreme Court ruled today that the government acted dishonourably in reneging on an 1877 land promise to an Indigenous community in Alberta, the Blood Tribe. The unanimous ruling was written by Justice Michelle O’Bonsawin, the first and only Indigenous judge in the court’s history, and said the Blood Tribe cannot sue because of a time limit.