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Trudeau continues to refuse a full public inquiry into the mounting allegations his government has twice benefited from Chinese interference in federal elections.
(LifeSiteNews) –– Under mounting pressure to investigate alleged Canadian election meddling by Communist China, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Monday chose not to launch a full public inquiry, but instead said he would be appointing an “independent special rapporteur” to investigate the matter.
According to the government, Trudeau’s “Special Rapporteur” will have a “wide mandate to make expert recommendations on protecting and enhancing Canadians’ faith in our democracy,” and will determine whether there should be a “formal inquiry or some other independent review process.”
Speaking on the matter himself, Trudeau stated that the special rapporteur will be an “eminent Canadian.”
However, after it was announced that Trudeau himself will be making the appointment, Conservative Party of Canada (CPC) leader Pierre Poilievre blasted the decision.
At a press conference on Tuesday, Poilievre alleged that for “10 years” the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) “dictatorship” has been propping up Trudeau with clandestine funding, and that his latest announcement is just another tactic he’s employing to avoid transparency.
“Now he is trying to cover it up again, with a secret process he controls. We want the opposite. He wants a secret process, we want an open process,” Poilievre said.
“We want the truth to come out, and we are going to continue to fight for that truth,” added the opposition leader.
On Monday, Trudeau held a press conference at which he outlined his new initiatives regarding CCP election meddling, maintaining that “Canada is one of the most stable democracies in the world, but that didn’t happen by accident.”