On Tuesday, a panel of top civil servants released a report concluding that attempts to interfere with the 2021 federal election did not affect the results, although it did say that Ottawa should consider changing the rules to allow the panel to alert Canadians to “potential” impacts on election integrity.
The Critical Election Incident Public Protocol was established in 2019 to monitor and alert the public to credible threats to Canada’s elections. The team is a panel of top public servants tasked with determining whether incidents of interference meet the threshold for warning the public.
The report did make a number of recommendations for the government to consider, including expanding the panel’s scope to include the period leading up to an election campaign.
The report specifically notes that there is no evidence to suggest that attempted interference targeted Elections Canada itself. The report also recommends that the relationship between diaspora communities in Canada and their former home states be analysed, but it cautioned against stirring up a backlash against specific communities.
Former Canadian ambassador to China Guy Saint-Jacques said in an interview that there are still lingering questions about election integrity. Prior to the report’s release, the Conservative Party said those ties discredit the work of Morris Rosenberg, the report’s author, who is a former senior public servant and served as CEO of the Trudeau Foundation from 2014 to 2018.
The report was written by Morris Rosenberg, a former senior public servant for more than 30 years.
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