Katie Telford, chief of staff to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, arrives for a meeting of the Liberal Caucus on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on February 14, 2024. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Justin Tang
OTTAWA – The director of the Liberal election campaign in 2019 says he recommended Justin Trudeau take no action on alleged nomination irregularities in a Toronto riding.
Jeremy Broadhurst’s testimony sheds fresh light on allegations of Chinese interference in the selection of Han Dong as the Liberal nominee in Don Valley North.
Broadhurst says intelligence officials briefed Liberal party representatives in 2019 about the alleged irregularities and he passed the information on to the prime minister.
He says he followed up with party officials involved in the nomination meeting, and they noticed nothing that stood out as unusual.
In addition, the intelligence officials did not recommend that the party take any measures as a result of the information.
Broadhurst says he felt the bar for overturning a democratic result should be extremely high, and Trudeau subsequently decided there was no action to take.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published April 9, 2024.
