As foreign actors work to influence Canada’s election, how safe is your vote? [Video]

When Hong Kong democracy activist Henry Chan decided to run for a Saskatchewan Party nomination in his hometown of Saskatoon, he didn’t expect to come out of the experience wondering if he’d been a target of foreign meddling.

Chan says he was approached at his meet-and-greet event by someone he later discovered on social media may have ties to the Chinese Communist Party. In a private conversation, the person asked him “what he was prepared to do for the Chinese people,” he said. They offered support for his nomination in return.

Chan didn’t take him up on it. He didn’t win the nomination, nor did the Saskatchewan Party even win this seat in the legislature in last year’s provincial vote.

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