The reports of the past interference of the Indian Government on Tuesday extinguished the general elections of Canada, placing Pierre Poilievre, the leader of the conservative party and Prime Minister Marko Carney challenger, in defense.
Canadian intelligence officials said that Indian agents and mediators raised money and organized support to Mr. Poilievre in the 2022 Conservative Party leadership race, which he won, Canadian News Media reported on Tuesday. Intelligence officials said there was no evidence that Mr. Poilievre or people were closely aware of the interference.
There was no indication that the interference had influenced the outcome of the Liberation Race, which Mr. Poilievre won in the landslide in the first round, gathering 68 percent of the vote.
But the news of India’s involvement has been resurrected by the unpleasant questions concerning the existent rejection of Mr. Poilievre to seek superior security approval to receive classified briefing on the Canada by foreign countries. Mr. Poilievre, the only head of the Federal Party who refused to obtain top -notch security approval, said that obtaining approval would limit what he could say in public.
Canadian intelligence officials did not inform Mr. Poilievre about Indian involvement in 2022 because he missed the security approval, according to Globe and post officewho was the first to report about mixing.
Annual public investigation In a foreign interference with Canadian politics, India identified India as one of the main actors, along with China, saying that it supports candidates believed to be pro-India. One intelligence report Posted last year was said to have been distracted by India “in the Conservative Party of the Canadian Wide Race.”
But the reports on Tuesday were the first to connect the Indian interference with the 2022 race that Mr. Poilievre won.
Mr. Poilievre, at a press conference on Tuesday, said he “won the leadership fair and the square.”
He also behaved opposition to accepting top -notch security approval.
“They do not want to talk about these things,” said Mr. Poilievre, adding that the government of the liberal leader wanted to impose “the oath of secrecy.”
Mr. Poilievre set off in the offensive, attacking Mr. Carney’s business with China as former President of the Brookfield Asset Management, a global investment company.
Mr. Carney, who called a general election on Sunday less than two weeks after inheriting Justin Trudeau as the Prime Minister, said that Mr. Poilievre’s decision was not to seek safety approval “irresponsible”.
Yves-François Blanchet, leader Bloc Québécois, a party that supports independence for Quebec and runs candidates for federal parliament only in the French language province, said he never felt forbidden after receiving security. Mr. Poilievre, he added, decided not to get approval and classified meetings to protect conservative candidates who might otherwise be forced to withdraw from the race.
Asked about Mr. Blanchet’s comment, a spokesman for the conservative party referred to a press conference Mr. Poilievre, who had not addressed.
An annual public investigation has discovered the interference of China and India to the two previous elections of Canada. The Chinese government and its proxy have mainly supported the candidates of the Liberal Party, who, especially during the early leadership of Mr. Trudeau, encouraged friendly relationships with Beijing.
China also tried to undermine conservative candidates who advocated a hard line against China and were critical of her human rights records.
In contrast, the Indian government had tense relations with the Liberal Party, which she accused of promoting Sikh-Kanadine in India, promoting a separate Sikh state. Historically, the Indian government had friendly relations with the conservative party.
Stephen Harper, a former conservative prime minister under which Mr. Poilievre served in ministerial positions, recently told India that he was “broken from the heart“About bad relations between India and Canada. Relations have worsened in the last two years when Mr. Trudeau accused the Indian Government agent of orchestrating the assassination of Sikh-Kanjski activist in Vancouver.
