Canada’s spy agency head set to testify on foreign election interference – National | 24CA News

The head of Canada’s spy company is among the many witnesses anticipated at a Parliamentary committee finding out allegations of overseas interference in elections Thursday.

Representatives from the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, the RCMP and Elections Canada will return to the House affairs committee, the place a few of them have testified earlier than.

The director of CSIS, David Vigneault, is about to look for the primary time.

The committee heard Wednesday from nationwide safety adviser Jody Thomas and members of a job drive that gives authorities officers with details about attainable threats to elections.

At that assembly, New Democrat MP Peter Julian referred to as for a public inquiry into overseas interference within the 2019 and 2021 federal elections – one thing the Bloc Quebecois and Conservatives additionally need.