LIVE UPDATES: CSIS director recalled after PMO, Trudeau contradict earlier testimony

Despite the public hearings being scheduled to conclude with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, CSIS Director David Vigneault is being recalled before the Foreign Interference Commission for a second round of testimony.

Vigneault is being brought back to provide more insight after officials within the Prime Minister’s Office and Trudeau himself contradicted the CSIS director’s previous testimony.

A document provided to the commission, sent from CSIS to the PMO and released to the inquiry in the dead of night following Vigneault’s initial testimony, said the Chinese Communist Party “clandestinely and deceptively” interfered in both the 2019 and 2021 federal elections.

Staff within the PMO and Trudeau both claimed the prime minister was not briefed on the matter.

Follow along with Vigneault’s testimony with Sheila Gunn Reid on X or on the page below:

This morning, CSIS Director David Vigneault is being called to retestify at the foreign interference commission.

A February 2023 CSIS briefing document to the PMO, released after Vigneault’s testimony in the dead of night, said Chinese government “clandestinely and deceptively”…

— Sheila Gunn Reid (@SheilaGunnReid) April 12, 2024

WOW, did Trudeau and Telford lie to the Foreign Interference Commission?

Trudeau and his senior PMO staff claimed to the commission that the CSIS director DID NOT inform them that China was deceptively and clandestinely interfering in Canada’s elections.

CSIS director David… pic.twitter.com/De16vRrDem

— Sheila Gunn Reid (@SheilaGunnReid) April 12, 2024