Maybe I can start first.
I have been observing and collecting data on foreign interference in elections at three levels of government over the last three decades. I have also served as a political commentator on this particular topic.
I have witnessed a growing level of interference from CCP over the last 30 years. Now they have not only interfered with municipal elections, but it has also occurred in provincial elections and then, last of all, at the federal level of elections. I don't want to go into all of the details, because I believe that the CSIS report or many of the media reports have already covered it.
However, based on our observation, the United Front organizations have been playing a very important role in channelling financial subsidies from the Chinese embassy or maybe directly from the United Front Work Department of China to their preferred candidates. I have seen banquets being filled with all of these people. They ask their individual members to donate to the preferred candidates in order to ensure their winnability. A number of years ago—