Trudeau points to “concerns” with NSICOP report on foreign interference

Even in Italy, the Prime Minister couldn't escape questions over foreign interference, speaking with journalists for only the second time since the report went public, alleging some parliamentarians were semi witting or witting participants in alleged foreign interference. A terse Trudeau refused to say if any of those MPs are Liberals. The issue of foreign interference is one that this government has taken incredibly seriously since 2015. We brought in the National Security and Intelligence Committee of Parliamentarians over the objections of the Conservative Party. That committee, dubbed Ensicopp, made of parliamentarians from all parties who alleged the accused MPs partook in potentially criminal and deeply unethical behavior. But Trudeau seemed to dispute that, echoing similar comments made by the public safety minister, who believes the committee did not properly interpret some of the thousands of pages worth of intelligence provided to them by national security agencies. We made clear some of the concerns we have with the way the Ansacop did and drew its conclusions. I think that is an important part of the process. Despite the dismissal, Trudeau did not provide any examples of what he found to be inaccurate with the report or give additional information about what he knows of the allegations. I learned a lot from reading this. Unlike what the leaders of the Green Party and NDP have done, both saying their M PS are not named in the report, with Jagmeet Singh being more alarmed after reading the unredacted version. What they're doing is unethical. It is in some cases against the law, and it is indeed they are indeed traitors to the country. The government refusing to release the names of those parliamentarians, calling the idea reckless we know the Chinese tried to do in the last two federal elections. It's mind boggling that not more has been done to to counter that. But it's not just China. The report also calls out India for frequent interference. The Prime Minister wouldn't say if you raised that during a meeting yesterday with the Indian Prime Minister at the G7, or if you brought up allegations that agents of the Indian government were involved with the murder of a Canadian Sikh activist in Surrey, BC. I'm not going to get into the details of of this issue. There's important but sensitive issues that we need to follow up on. Well, Mackenzie joins us now from Cersei, Switzerland, where the Ukraine peace summit is underway. Mackenzie, Russia isn't there. China isn't either. So what are we expecting from this summit? Yeah, Tracy. Justin Trudeau is representing one of nearly 100 countries here at the Ukraine peace summit in Switzerland. And he might be one of the biggest name leaders to attend, which is a problem for Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky, who was hoping for the big names in international politics. But they didn't come through. Joe Biden sent Kamala Harris instead. India, Turkey, Saudi Arabia all didn't send their top person and China didn't show up at all saying they're not coming because Russia wasn't invited. So those developments make the chances of any kind of serious breakthrough a minimal possibility. But Despite that, Justin Trudeau is trying to rally support to put pressure on Russia to return thousands of Ukrainian kids that have been kidnapped and resettled inside of Russia. And initiative, Tracy, that Zelensky has already publicly thanked Trudeau for. All right, Mackenzie Gray reporting in Switzerland for us. Thanks, Mack.