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Canadian Members of Parliament voted to conduct a public inquiry, which the prime minister has so far chosen to ignore.
(LifeSiteNews) — Despite MPs from all opposition parties agreeing to an independent public inquiry to investigate whether agents from the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) interfered in Canada’s 2019 and 2021 federal elections, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has refused to support the idea.
Today, Trudeau told reporters that “independent experts are looking at this issue” of possible CCP election meddling.
However, he did not commit to a full independent public inquiry, saying instead that “our intelligence and security agencies” are still looking into election meddling.
Yesterday, all opposition MPs from the Conservative Party of Canada, the NDP, and the Bloc Quebecois passed a motion in the House of Commons affairs committee in a 6-5 vote to request a public inquiry to look at CCP election meddling.
However, the motion is non-binding, which means the Trudeau Liberals can choose to ignore it.
Conservative MP Michael Cooper in a statement today said that Trudeau is “showing nothing but contempt for Parliament” by declining to investigate CCP election meddling by going against the house affairs committee’s will.
“Once again, Justin Trudeau is covering up the truth and telling Canadians there is ‘nothing to see here’ when it comes to Beijing’s interference in our democracy,” Cooper said.
Trudeau is also coming under fire over a supposed independent review that concluded Canada’s election safety systems worked as designed for the past two elections but was led by longtime top civil servant Morris Rosenberg.
Rosenberg, however, was the CEO of the Pierre Elliot Trudeau Foundation at the same time a Chinese billionaire, at the request of CCP agents, gave it $200,000. Earlier this week, the Trudeau Foundation said it had returned the money, which LifeSiteNews reported about.