OTTAWA — Although the federal foreign interference task force said China had likely manipulated the 2019 Liberal nomination race in a Toronto-area riding, Canada’s election watchdog says she found no evidence federal election laws were broken. Article content

The revelation is buried in the Commissioner of Canada Elections’ latest annual report published last week. Article content

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In the report, Commissioner Caroline Simard says she looked into two particular instances of alleged foreign interference that were discussed at length during the public inquiry. In both cases she found “either no evidence or not enough evidence” to support a breach of the Canada Elections Act (CEA).

The first was allegations of manipulation by the Chinese

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