The independent inquiry into foreign electoral interference begins public hearings today. Its first item of business is working out what it can — and can’t — talk about publicly.
The inquiry — officially the “Public Inquiry into Foreign Interference in Federal Electoral Processes and Democratic Institutions” — was triggered by media reports last year which, citing unnamed security sources and classified documents, accused China of interfering in the 2019 and 2021 federal elections.
Commissioner Justice Marie-Josée Hogue has been asked to investigate the extent to which China, Russia and other nations interfered in those elections, and how information about foreign interference flowed within the federal government. Just last week,
