![]() ![]() ![]() Stay tuned for more town halls later in the week. Today: Trudeau will hold his first in-person town hall since the pandemic with members of the Carpenters’ District Council of Ontario in the GTA. Is an election in the offing? Are future leadership contenders testing the waters? Is it both? Is it neither? Send us your best guesses. ROAD SHOW - The PM is hitting the town hall circuit this week, as he and his ministers fan out across the country to fit in nine fundraisers over just three days. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau | Justin Tang/The Canadian Press via AP On Friday, Prime Minister JUSTIN TRUDEAU said attempted interference did not influence the outcomes of the 2019 or 2021 elections, and that he expects CSIS to investigate the leaks. ![]() What’s next: In a letter sent Friday to the committee chair, Conservative MP MICHAEL COOPER said the Globe’s reporting brought forward “shocking revelations regarding Beijing’s strategy to interfere and influence Canada’s democratic institutions.” The House of Commons committee was already studying foreign influence in the 2019 election, following a report from Global’s SAM COOPER last November about China supporting 11 candidates during that campaign. The Fife-Chase duo have since followed that bombshell up with two more stories about how China protects its network of “Canadian friends” and how it targets Canadian officials. In case you missed it: On Friday, the Globe’s ROBERT FIFE and STEVEN CHASE reported on leaked CSIS documents that illustrated how “Chinese diplomats and their proxies” sought to re-elect a Liberal minority government in 2021, and to defeat certain Conservatives “considered to be unfriendly to Beijing.” Opposition members of the procedure and House affairs committee want to expand the scope of an existing study in response to new information published by the Globe and Mail about Chinese attempts to influence the 2021 election. Were they worth it?ĮLECTION INTERFERENCE - Despite the break week, a parliamentary committee is meeting this afternoon following more explosive revelations about Chinese interference in Canadian elections. And from our colleagues in Europe: Western sanctions didn’t stop the war. Related reading: The CBC’s MURRAY BREWSTER has this dispatch about the displaced Ukrainians who haven’t been able to leave the country. On Monday, Governor General MARY SIMON and Ukrainian Ambassador YULIYA KOVALIV attended an event in Ottawa in solidarity with Ukraine. Meanwhile, in Canada: Foreign Affairs Minister MÉLANIE JOLY made a two-day visit to Ukraine last week, ahead of the anniversary. For more on that: POLITICO’s ELI STOKOLS and ALEXANDER WARD have the inside track on how Biden finally got to Kyiv. support for Ukraine in the war,” he said during a joint address with Ukrainian President VOLODYMYR ZELENSKYY. “I thought it was critical that there not be any doubt, none whatsoever, about U.S. President JOE BIDEN made a surprise visit to Kyiv on Monday, just ahead of the one-year anniversary of the war Russia launched on Feb. President Joe Biden and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Kyiv. ![]()
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