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China taking ‘aggressive’ steps to gut Canada’s democracy, warns Trudeau

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau makes his way to a cabinet meeting on Parliament Hill in Ottawa.
The prime minister, Justin Trudeau, makes his way to a cabinet meeting on Parliament Hill in Ottawa. Photograph: Adrian Wyld/AP

Justin Trudeau has warned that China is “play[ing] aggressive games” to undermine democratic institutions amid reports Beijing actively interfered in Canada’s federal elections.

His comments on Monday came after a news report that Beijing had funded a “clandestine network” of candidates in Canada’s 2019 election and just days after the federal police force said it was actively investigating a secret network of illegal Chinese “police stations” in Toronto.

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