Politics Insider: Watchdog detects Chinese effort to shape Canadian opinion of Carney

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Hello, welcome to Politics Insider, election edition. There are 21 days until voting day. Let’s look at what happened today. An information operation from Beijing is trying to shape opinion about Liberal Leader Mark Carney among Chinese Canadians, according to a federal elections-threats watchdog. Steven Chase reports that one example of messaging being circulated concerning Mr. Carney says “the United States is facing a tough prime minister from Canada.” The Security and Intelligence Threats to Elections Task Force announced today that this effort is taking place on the Chinese-language social media platform, WeChat, and its most popular news account, Youli-Youmian....