‘Not someone we can trust to be the prime minister’
During a campaign stop in Toronto today, NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh was asked about the report that India meddled in the 2022 Conservative leadership race.
Singh said the existence of the allegations was already known and that Poilievre still refused to get security clearance.
CSIS said in December that it would share some information about alleged interference with Poilievre, who has maintained that obtaining security clearance and reviewing classified documents would muzzle him.
“If you cared about the country, if you cared about democracy, you would get the security clearance and find out as much as possible to protect our country,” said Singh.
To clarify, Radio-Canada confirmed today that CSIS has no evidence that Poilievre or his team were aware of the specific efforts in question.
Singh said that Poilievre put his party’s interests over those of the country, and that this disqualifies him as a viable candidate for prime minister. Singh went on to say that the Conservative leader doesn’t take threats against the country seriously.
“That is not someone we can trust to be the prime minister,” Singh said.
