Prime Minister Justin Trudeau must comply or risk censure for contempt when the opposition parties vote for an inquiry into Chinese election interference as a parliamentary order, according to Blacklock’s Reporter.. Voting stationVoting station .Conservative and Bloc Québécois MPs said only a public inquiry would provide Canadians confidence that elections are fair..“Justin Trudeau has inspired a lot of suspicion by his refusal to answer questions about his knowledge of Beijing’s interference to help him in two successive elections,” said Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre to the media..“Leaked Canadian Security Intelligence Service and Privy Council Office documents now show that Beijing worked to help elect Justin Trudeau. That is an accepted fact.”.READ MORE Trudeau’s Liberals filibustering Chinese election interference for 22 hours.“He doesn’t even deny it,” said Poilievre..“But he kept it hidden until courageous whistleblowers at the Canadian Security Intelligence Service released it for him. Now he refuses a public inquiry. I think Canadians of all political backgrounds are asking, what has Justin Trudeau got to hide?”.“Furthermore, why hasn’t he protected Chinese Canadians?” said Poilievre..“In British Columbia, we know Chinese Canadians came under intimidation by the People’s Republic of China government. They were threatened. There were times when a Conservative candidate would knock on a door and the person answering would say, ‘Can we go into the backyard so we can talk without being surveilled by the regime in Beijing?’”.READ MORE Trudeau says some Canadians won’t believe him about election interference.“I think it is disgraceful that the prime minister knew this and did absolutely nothing,” said Poilievre..“He kept it covered up and to this day will not even tell us how much money the Liberal Party got in donations that were funnelled, clandestine donations, to his party.”.Bloc Québécois Leader Yves-François Blanchet on Tuesday released the text of a letter to the prime minister stating a public inquiry must be called.. Blanchet .“This is the only way to restore public confidence in our electoral system,” wrote Blanchet..“This is what the people demand.”.“The question is not to determine whether or not a commission of inquiry should be created in the wake of revelations about Chinese interference in both last federal elections, but when it will be created and who will be the commissioner,” wrote Blanchet..“The answer is unequivocal. It must be set up as quickly as possible, especially in a context of uncertainty over the next election, and the commissioner must be chosen by the House of Commons.”.“It is about confidence in our democracy,” wrote Blanchet..“You can count on our full and entire collaboration.”.The House Affairs committee on March 2 adopted by a 6 to 5 vote a New Democrat motion demanding a “national public inquiry into allegations of foreign interference” in the 2019 and 2021 campaigns. The committee recommendation has since been tabled in the Commons awaiting a motion of concurrence that would trigger a vote of all MPs.
