Mon Mar 20, 2023 – 8:26 pm EDT
OTTAWA (LifeSiteNews) – The Canadian Security and Intelligence Service (CSIS) official who has been steadily leaking confidential information to the media regarding alleged interference in Canada’s elections by China said exposing interference must be done to protect the future of the integrity of the process.
In an opinion titled “Why I blew the whistle on Chinese interference in Canada’s elections” published by the Globe and Mail last Friday, the whistleblower author detailed in full the reasons behind the steady leaking of information, which could come with severe consequences.
The CSIS whistleblower said, “I swore an oath. Not to party or to person, but to my country, to its democratic institutions and to my fellow Canadians.”
“When I first became aware of the significance of the threat posed by outside interference to our democratic institutions, I worked – as have many unnamed and tireless colleagues – to equip our leaders with the knowledge and the tools needed to take action against it,” the whistleblower wrote.
The whistleblower noted that as months and years passed, there grew a threat in Canada regarding election meddling by foreign states and that “serious
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