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USA Politics and Government
By Norimitsu Onishi

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Montreal: A Canadian MP has testified that high school students from China were transported by bus to vote for him in a party election that is at the centre of a federal inquiry into interference in Canadian elections by China and other countries.

At public hearing in Ottawa, Ontario, Han Dong, a Chinese Canadian politician formerly from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberal Party, said he had met and sought the support of the students from a private high school in 2019, but that he did not know who had chartered or paid for the bus on the day of the election.

Canadian MP Han Dong at his election party in 2014.Credit: Getty

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