Global Affairs Canada believes Conservative MP Michael Chong has been the victim of a foreign smear campaign, which the department suspects was conducted by Beijing.
A federal research unit detected what might be a Chinese Communist Party information operation that aimed to discourage Canadians of Chinese heritage from voting for the Conservatives in the last federal election.
A new tool launched on Tuesday, June 18, 2019, could help voters learn what political issues are resonating in ethnic media and how that could impact voting in the fall federal election.
The Liberal candidate running against NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh in a Metro Vancouver byelection dropped out of the race on Wednesday, January 16, 2019, after drawing criticism for an online post singling out Singh's ethnicity.