LIVE UPDATES: CSIS director, RCMP commissioner testify on foreign election meddling
Some of Canada's top security officials will testify about foreign actors attempting to influence Canadian elections at the Foreign Interference Commission.
Today, the Foreign Interference Commission will hear from some of Canada's top security officials. First up will be Communications Security Establishment deputy Dan Rogers. As an official with CSE, Rogers specializes in information technology security and foreign signals intelligence.
Following him with be David Vigneault, director of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, and three others from the federal national security agency.
In the afternoon, RCMP Commissioner Mike Duheme will take the stand before the day likely wraps up with testimony from deputy minister David Morrison, the head of Global Affairs Canada.
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Testifying today at Foreign Interference Commission:
— Sheila Gunn Reid (@SheilaGunnReid) April 4, 2024
Deputy Head of the Communications Security Establishment Dan Rogers
Director of CSIS David Vigneault, and three of his colleagues.
RCMP Commissioner Mike Duheme and head of Global Affairs Canada, deputy minister David…
Cindy Termorshuizen is testifying with David Morrison.
— Sheila Gunn Reid (@SheilaGunnReid) April 4, 2024
Since January 2022, Termorshuizen has been an Associate Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs
from 2020 - 2022, she was the Assistant Deputy Minister, Consular, Security and Emergency Management, at Global Affairs Canada…
David Morrison is the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs at Global Affairs Canada. He's got a WEF bio, just FYI https://t.co/ezdQ8QCfFM
— Sheila Gunn Reid (@SheilaGunnReid) April 4, 2024
She's also Trudeau's personal representative for the G7 summit. https://t.co/dATtP7q09P https://t.co/OtCecnOEhT
— Sheila Gunn Reid (@SheilaGunnReid) April 4, 2024
Now testifying at the Foreign Interference Commission: Deputy RCMP Commissioner Mark Flynn and RCMP Commissioner Michael Duheme.https://t.co/MYTHpzxYQd
— Sheila Gunn Reid (@SheilaGunnReid) April 4, 2024
RCMP Commissioner Michael Duheme tells the Foreign Interference Commission that he received no information about the PRC buying votes in Kenny Chiu's riding, information about Han Dong's riding and PRC meddling in his favour, or PRC involvement in the 2021 election as it… pic.twitter.com/kCRFeA2XqE
— Sheila Gunn Reid (@SheilaGunnReid) April 4, 2024
RCMP Commissioner Michael Duheme tells the Foreign Interference Commission he was getting an intense flow of information during the last two election periods, yet, in further testimony, he admits to getting no reports about PRC meddling in Kenny Chiu's riding in Han Dong's riding… pic.twitter.com/sJHD2FwTOZ
— Sheila Gunn Reid (@SheilaGunnReid) April 4, 2024
Daniel Rogers, Associate Chief of the Communications Security Establishment (CSE), says he did not see any online disinfo coming from Russia targeting the 2021 election.
— Sheila Gunn Reid (@SheilaGunnReid) April 4, 2024
(Freeland is going to have to come up with another excuse to explain why people point out her posing with… pic.twitter.com/KmUQm7U8LW
Up now at the Foreign Interference Commission:
— Sheila Gunn Reid (@SheilaGunnReid) April 4, 2024
David Vigneault, Director of CSIS
Michelle Tessier, Deputy Director of Operations at CSIS
Cherie Henderson, Assistant Director of CSIS
I should note that Cherie Henderson, Assistant Director of CSIS, recently retired however, the other two are still in their roles https://t.co/sU9y6Yhr5q
— Sheila Gunn Reid (@SheilaGunnReid) April 4, 2024
Top CSIS bureaucrats say they work hard at security collection and intel sharing.
— Sheila Gunn Reid (@SheilaGunnReid) April 4, 2024
(This would be news to Kenny Chiu and Michael Chong, who were targeted by the PRC and were never informed of the targeting while it was happening.) pic.twitter.com/BdvLEVYZsa
Retired CSIS Assistant Director Cherie Henderson says the agency is "very alive" to foreign interference and seems well aware of the ways it targets diaspora communities inside Canada.
— Sheila Gunn Reid (@SheilaGunnReid) April 4, 2024
Fair enough, but why didn't anyone from her agency tell Kenny Chiu and Michael Chong the PRC… pic.twitter.com/tE0S8dMKjA
An October 2019 CSIS brief was prepared about CCP meddling in the Don Valley North Liberal nomination of Han Dong.
— Sheila Gunn Reid (@SheilaGunnReid) April 4, 2024
The CSIS brief was given to the Liberal Government showing CCP interference. And then, shortly after that, the CSIS brief was recalled.
No one seems to know why.… pic.twitter.com/CvFyPyj87B
CPC's lawyer finds the underlying cause of why CSIS didn't tell Chong and Chiu didn't warn them they were the subject of a CCP/PRP attack campaign.
— Sheila Gunn Reid (@SheilaGunnReid) April 4, 2024
The Liberal government knew for years, however, because CSIS briefed cabinet and senior bureaucrats.
(you might have to pause… pic.twitter.com/BN6dHm0bmU
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