Politics Insider: Conservative candidate targeted by election interference from China, watchdog says

Hello, welcome to Politics Insider, election edition. There are seven days until voting day. Let's look at what happened today. A federal election-threats watchdog has uncovered a foreign interference operation from China targeting a Toronto-area Conservative candidate. The goal of the plan was to shift public opinion among Chinese-speaking Canadians against the candidate, who has been a sharp critic of Beijing's crackdown on civil rights in Hong Kong. Steven Chase and Emily Haws report that the target was Joe Tay, the Conservative Party candidate for the federal riding of Don Valley North. The Security and Intelligence Threats to Elections Task…