Morning Update: China’s foreign interference cost Conservatives multiple seats in 2021, former leader says

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Good morning, The Conservatives were targeted by a deluge of misinformation orchestrated by China and its proxies that led to the defeat of up to nine candidates in the 2021 election, former leader Erin O’Toole told the foreign-interference inquiry yesterday. However, O’Toole said he does not believe that Chinese interference changed the outcome of the vote that produced a Liberal minority. The Foreign Interference Commission heard from O’Toole, two sitting MPs and a defeated parliamentarian who said senior government officials responsible for the integrity of the 2021 election campaign failed to share intelligence on Beijing’s meddling. The former Conservative leader...