Former Conservative leader Erin O’Toole met with Special Rapporteur David Johnston about Chinese election interference, but it was “nothing more than a box checking exercise.”

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O’Toole, who led the Conservatives in the 2021 election, was given only a few days to prepare for the meeting and did not have a Canada Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) briefing before the meeting.

“I was still waiting to receive a CSIS briefing on foreign interference that had been promised the week before when my office was called by the Johnston team and told we only had two days to make the meeting work,” said O’Toole.