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Politics Week: Foreign Interference Probe Heats Up

CANADA
  • Parliamentary national security committee reported June 3 it’s “seen troubling intelligence that some Parliamentarians are, in the words of the intelligence services, `semi-witting or witting’ participants in the efforts of foreign states to interfere in our politics.” No individual lawmakers are named.
  • Polling aggregator 338Canada shows Conservatives likely to win majority government if an election were held now. Election is due in late 2025 under traditional four-year mandate.
  • Cabinet shuffle extends media speculation about an early election call in Canada’s most populous province of Ontario, where Progressive Conservative Premier Doug Ford may seek to pre-empt any momentum of a new Liberal Leader. Election wouldn’t normally be due until 2026. Ford has said there won't be an election this summer or fall.
  • Sample headline: Canadian politicians stand accused of colluding with hostile foreign governments. We deserve to know which ones (Toronto Star)
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