During testimony at the foreign interference inquiry, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau claimed that some Conservative parliamentarians are linked to foreign interference.
Trudeau stated he directed the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) to warn Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre to help protect the integrity of the party. “I have the names of a number of parliamentarians, former parliamentarians, and/or candidates in the Conservative Party of Canada who are engaged, or at high risk of, or for whom there is clear intelligence around foreign interference,” said Trudeau.
He also criticized Poilievre for refusing classified briefings, which he said left the party in a position where “nobody is there to stand up for those individuals if the intelligence is shoddy or incomplete.”
Poilievre responded by accusing Trudeau of lying and demanded he release the names of those allegedly involved.
He suggested that Trudeau’s claims were an attempt to distract from his own controversies, including allegations of foreign interference in the Liberal Party. Poilievre insisted that neither he nor his chief of staff had been informed of any current or former Conservative members engaging in foreign interference.
