There is no evidence to indicate the outcome of April’s federal election was influenced by foreign interference, disinformation, or voter intimidation, despite a marked increase in the number of complaints about the campaign, Canada’s elections commissioner says.
A preliminary report from Commissioner Caroline Simard said her office received 16,115 complaints related to the spring campaign that concluded on April 28. That is seven times the number of complaints received during the elections in 2019 and 2021, the Office of the Commissioner of Canada Elections (OCCE) said, noting that it was receiving as many as 650 complaints each hour in the early stages of the campaign.
