Communist Party agents worked to elect “pro-China” candidates to the current Parliament, CSIS director David Vigneault yesterday testified at the Commission on Foreign Interference. “I support those conclusions,” said Vigneault as documents pointed to large cash payments for unnamed public office holders.

“These words have been crafted very carefully,” said Vigneault. “For the Commission record I support those conclusions. I would not want to go further.”

Vigneault was commenting on an internal federal memo. “The People’s Republic of China sought to clandestinely and deceptively influence Canada’s 2021 federal election,” said the memo After Action Report 2021 Federal Election.