The evidence from two secret witnesses with first-hand knowledge about China meddling in Canada’s democracy will be recorded via affidavits, the Hogue Commission said in a decision that notes the information will be sealed with the exception of summaries produced for public release.
Commissioner Marie-Josée Hogue issued her decision Nov. 13 regarding the two potential witnesses and the methods for capturing and safeguarding their evidence.
One of the witnesses, identified only as “Person B,” provided commission counsel with “insight into how the People’s Republic of China (“PRC”) co-opts and leverages some Chinese Canadian community associations and politicians of Chinese origin,” Hogue wrote….