thePodcast: After testifying at the foreign interference inquiry, Kenny Chiu's perspective on the Hogue Commission

April 14, 2024 • 00:38:55
thePodcast: After testifying at the foreign interference inquiry, Kenny Chiu's perspective on the Hogue Commission
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thePodcast: After testifying at the foreign interference inquiry, Kenny Chiu's perspective on the Hogue Commission

Apr 14 2024 | 00:38:55

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Show Notes

For the week of April 14, 2024: The spring phase of public hearings in the Foreign Interference Inquiry is over.  The climax came April 10 when Prime Minister Justin Trudeau testified about evidence the Chinese Communist Party meddled in the 2019 and 2021 elections. Commissioner Marie-Josee Hogue’s May 3 interim report deadline is rapidly approaching. The final report is due at the end of the year.  Kenny Chiu, the Steveston-Richmond East Conservative MP from 2019 to 2021, testified April 3 about the disinformation campaign on Chinese-language social media that led to his defeat.  Chiu is Bob Mackin’s guest on this […]

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