December 13th, 2024

CP NewsAlert: MPs wittingly helped foreign state actors: national security committee

By The Canadian Press on June 3, 2024.

David McGuinty, chair of the National Security and Intelligence Committee of Parlmentarians, holds a news conference, in Ottawa, Thursday, March 12, 2020. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Fred Chartrand

OTTAWA – The National Security and Intelligence Committee of Parliamentarians says some MPs began “wittingly assisting” foreign state actors soon after their election, including sending confidential information to Indian officials.

The committee’s new report on foreign interference in the last two federal votes says Canadian spy agencies produced a body of intelligence showing foreign actors cultivated relationships with both MPs and senators.

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