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‘It directly contradicts the Johnston Report’: The Hub Roundtable breaks down new testimony on the foreign interference scandal

Jody Thomas, National Security and Intelligence Advisor waits to appear as a witness before the Standing Committee on Procedure and House Affairs (PROC) investigating intimidation campaigns against the Member for Wellington - Halton Hills and other Members on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, on Thursday, June 1, 2023. Spencer Colby/The Canadian Press.

This week’s Hub Roundtable discusses this week’s testimony by Jody Thomas, the government’s national security advisor, about the “breakdown in process” that happened regarding the Chinese government’s intimidation campaigns against Canadian MPs. We also talk about Facebook’s decision to launch a trial run of news-blocking in response to Bill C-18, the government’s online news legislation.

You can listen to this episode of Hub Dialogues on Acast, Amazon, Apple, Google, and Spotify. The episodes are generously supported by The Ira Gluskin And Maxine Granovsky Gluskin Charitable Foundation and The Linda Frum & Howard Sokolowski Charitable Foundation.

Be sure to check out more commentary on this topic from David Frum on The Hub’s YouTube channel.

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