Front Burner

Ex-CSIS boss on China’s alleged election meddling

Mar 1, 2023

32:25

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What Is the Role of CISA?

01:31

Can CISA's Know That?

02:02

Sises - What Did Sises Know?

03:41

Introduction

3min

China's Influence on the 2021 Canadian Election

3min

Sises - What Did Sises Know?

4min

Sises Doesn't Act. It's Not an Executive Agency.

3min

CISA's Advising the PMO on Dong's Candidate?

3min

What Powers Do CISA's Agents Have?

3min

What Is the Role of CISA?

2min

Can CISA's Know That?

2min

The House of Commons in Canada Is Becoming Increasingly Partisan Over the Years

2min

10.

Are the Leaks Coming From the Liberals?

3min

11.

Do You Think Prime Minister Justin Trudeau Has Done Enough to Address Foreign Intervention?

2min

12.

I'm Disappointed as a Canadian, but I Don't Think That's a Good Idea

2min

13.

CSIS Director - Is That Your Job?

2min

Recent reports by the Globe and Mail and Global News, relying on Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) documents and unnamed intelligence sources, have detailed different ways the Chinese government has allegedly interfered with Canadian elections. On this episode, Dick Fadden, a former director of CSIS and a former national security advisor to both Stephen Harper and Justin Trudeau, walks us through the way the spy agency operates on cases like this, and what should be done now to ensure Canadian elections are free of foreign meddling. For transcripts of this series, please visit: https://www.cbc.ca/radio/frontburner/transcripts