Why doesn’t Trudeau know anything about alleged Chinese interference in the last federal election?.Prime Minister Justin Trudeau claimed he knows nothing about Liberal Party candidates receiving money from China during the 2019 election. “I do not have any information, nor have I been briefed on any federal candidates receiving any money from China,” he told a reporter on Sunday in Tunisia. .That flies in the face of a report that Trudeau was fully briefed about the money by CSIS. If Trudeau did know and did nothing, he needs to resign..The allegation first arose in a Global News report about alleged Chinese interference effort that Canadian intelligence officials informed Trudeau about as early as this January. .“These media reports … We asked our security officials to follow up on them,” Trudeau tried to explain. “I’ve asked them to give all information that they can share, that they can with a parliamentary committee looking into it. Again let me be very clear. I have no information.”.Kind of reminds you of Sgt. Schultz who always said "I know nothing," in the 1960s sitcom, "Hogan's Heroes.".That's not good enough..I sat in Question Period last week and heard the same thing. Opposition Leader Pierre Poilievre asked Deputy Prime Minister Christia Freeland about the money and she refused to even address the question, droning on instead of Poilievre’s past interest in crypto currency. Other questions to other ministers drew blanks as well, with the Liberals reading talking points about how we all need to be concerned about election security..The Chinese consulate in Toronto was reportedly working an intelligence scheme to interfere in the last federal election. The Chinese are said to have shifted money to both a federal Liberal campaign staffer and an unnamed Liberal provincial MPP who then distributed the funds to Liberal election hopefuls..You would think that Trudeau would have come up with a better answer since he is usually never at a loss for words about China. We all know how he praised China for its ability to turn its economy around “on a dime.” Last week he refused to define the Chinese extermination program of the Uyghurs as a genocide. Then he we was upbraided by Chinese dictator Xi Jinping, after the two supposedly discussed issues of concern..But he knows nothing about Chinese interference in the federal election? Was he briefed by CSIS about the operation and now he can’t remember? Is he lying about being briefed?.Can we believe anything he says?.This latest report is extremely unsettling in that it goes to very heart of Canadian democracy: our elections. If the Chinese are interfering there, they can interfere in anything..We need answers from Trudeau now and if he's lying about having been briefed about this he needs to resign.
