Prime Minister Justin Trudeau made an appearance at a federal inquiry into foreign interference on Wednesday, following several days of testimony from members of his cabinet, political party representatives, senior bureaucrats and intelligence officials. At the hearing, the prime minister listed measures his government had taken to address foreign interference since assuming power in 2015.

The inquiry has already heard that China and other state actors attempted to interfere, but there has been little evidence so far to indicate whether or not they were successful.

The former minister of democratic institutions said she was told after the October 2019 federal election that Canada's spy agency had seen low-level foreign interference activities by China. Karina Gould, who held the portfolio from early 2017 to November 2019, said in a classified interview last month that the Canadian Security Intelligence Service indicated the activities were similar to what had been seen in the past.

Under a protocol ushered in by the Liberals, there would be a public announcement if a panel of bureaucrats determined that an incident — or an accumulation of incidents — threatened Canada's ability to have a free and fair election. There was no such announcement concerning either the 2019 or 2021 general elections.

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