Canadian Politician Admits Chinese High Schoolers Were Bused in to Vote for Him

A Chinese-Canadian lawmaker testified at a foreign interference hearing on Tuesday that a busload of high schoolers from China showed up to vote for his nomination in a Liberal Party race in 2019.

Han Dong, a member of the Parliament of Canada from Toronto, said that he had met with these students and encouraged them to support him, but that he hadn’t contracted the bus that brought them to his district on nomination day.

He said he wasn’t sure “whether all those students voted for him but believes that it is likely most did,” according to a written submission given to the public inquiry ahead of the hearing.

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