(Ottawa) Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is scheduled to testify Wednesday afternoon before the public inquiry into allegations of foreign interference in the last two federal elections.
The commission has previously learned that China and other countries attempted to interfere in the electoral process, but little evidence has been presented to date to demonstrate that these attempts were successful.
In recent months, Mr. Trudeau has repeatedly said that the results of the last two general elections were not significantly affected by foreign interference, which is consistent with what other senior members of the government supported.
Several other members of the council of ministers must testify on Wednesday before the commission chaired by Judge Marie-Josée Hogue, including the leader of the government in the House of Commons, Karina Gould, who is currently on maternity leave.
As former Minister of Democratic Institutions, she was mandated to put an end to foreign interference in elections.
The Ministers of National Defense, Bill Blair, and Public Safety, Dominic LeBlanc, are also due to testify on Wednesday.
They were initially supposed to be the last witnesses in this phase of the hearings, but Commissioner Hogue agreed to call back the director of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, David Vigneault, to answer additional questions on certain documents.