Wed Nov 30, 2022 – 5:27 pm EST
OTTAWA (LifeSiteNews) – In Parliament on Tuesday, leader of the opposition Pierre Poilievre grilled Prime Minister Trudeau 11 times about possible Chinese interference into Canadian elections, and each time Trudeau refused to give a “yes” or “no” answer.
Conservative leader @PierrePoilievre asked @JustinTrudeau over and over about China interfering in Canadian elections. Bloc leader @yfblanchet asked as well. Trudeau didn’t answer their questions, he dodged and weaved. WATCH and RT #cdnpoli pic.twitter.com/4CJ2c9u7Ho
— Brian Lilley (@brianlilley) November 29, 2022
During the question period in the House of Commons, Poilievre first asked Trudeau: “Did they [intelligence officials or law enforcement] ever inform the Prime Minister of Beijing’s interference in our elections? Yes or no.”
Trudeau did not answer the question directly, but instead expressed his view that Canadian law enforcement and intelligence officials “take the importance of fighting against foreign interference very seriously… I can assure the member… that in the 2019 [and] 2021 elections there was no foreign interference in a way that would have changed any of the results in any significant way…”
Poilievre accused Trudeau of having used “words to obscure the answer” and rephrased
The remainder of this article is available in its entirety at LifeSite News
The views expressed in this news alert by the author do not directly represent that of The Official Street Preachers or its editors