Investigation Timeline — 2015 to Present

19 key events across 4 investigation streams. Filter by category. Click any event to read the full investigation.

Marco Mendicino

Former Minister of Public Safety. Oversaw CSIS, RCMP, firearms policy, and the Emergencies Act invocation. Served as interim Chief of Staff to PM Mark Carney (March–July 2025).

Emergencies Act

Claimed police asked for the Emergencies Act

2022 — House of Commons & media
Mendicino told Parliament and the public that the government invoked the Emergencies Act based on "the advice of non-partisan professional law enforcement."
Reality: RCMP Commissioner Brenda Lucki and Ottawa Police Chief Steve Bell both testified under oath that they did not ask the government to invoke the Act. The Special Joint Committee found that MPs were "intentionally misled." Conservative MPs called for his resignation and formal censure for contempt of Parliament.
Sources: CBC News · Reclaim The Net · Globe and Mail
Foreign Interference

Had CSIS warnings about Chinese interference — did nothing

June 2022 — Classified briefing
A classified eight-page document dated June 15, 2022 was circulated to top national security officials including Mendicino. It explicitly detailed Beijing's "long history of mobilizing support for preferred candidates at all levels of government."
Reality: Despite being the principal recipient of CSIS warnings due to his oversight of the agency, no public action was taken. When asked by Global News whether the election integrity panel saw the CSIS reports, Mendicino refused to answer. He later claimed he only learned about threats to MP Michael Chong from a newspaper — the same newspaper that broke the story.
Sources: Todayville · Global News · CBC News · Foreign Interference Commission testimony
Firearms Confiscation

"We are not targeting law-abiding gun owners"

Dec 7, 2022 — House of Commons, Hansard
Mendicino told Parliament: "We have been consistent all along in that we are not targeting law-abiding gun owners. We are not targeting guns that are commonly used for hunting." He demanded Conservatives "reverse their position and support that bill."
Reality: The OIC bypassed democratic process entirely. No vote. No debate. No committee study. The amnesty has been extended repeatedly — now to October 2026 — because the buyback program still doesn't work. Licensed firearms owners who committed no crime were turned into criminals overnight by executive order. The program was contracted to IBM. Meanwhile, MAID kills thousands per year and Veterans Affairs offered assisted death to veterans with PTSD.
Sources: Hansard — Dec 7, 2022 · Canada Gazette SOR/2020-96 · Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms · CBC News — Amnesty extension

David Lametti

Former Minister of Justice and Attorney General. Architect of Bill C-7 (MAID expansion). Pushed to expand assisted death to people whose sole condition is mental illness.

MAID Expansion

Expanded MAID to people who are not dying

Feb 2020 – 2023 — House of Commons, Hansard
Bill C-7 removed the requirement that a person's death be "reasonably foreseeable" to qualify for MAID. Lametti told the House: "The bill's objectives are to recognize the autonomy of individuals to choose MAID as a means for relieving intolerable suffering, regardless of the foreseeability of their natural death."
Reality: Since Bill C-7 passed, Canadians have received MAID citing poverty, homelessness, and inability to access healthcare. Disability rights groups — over 50 organizations — wrote to Lametti demanding a halt, calling it state-enabled euthanasia of people who are not terminally ill. The UN Special Rapporteur on disability rights expressed alarm. Canada now has the highest rate of assisted death in the world.
Sources: Hansard — Feb 26, 2020 · Hansard — Oct 9, 2020 · CBC — Disability groups demand halt · Jacobin — MAID and Poverty
MAID for Mental Illness

"I was right in 2021 and I'm right now"

Feb 14, 2023 — Justice Committee, Hansard
Lametti told the Justice Committee that extending MAID for mental illness was "inevitable" and "the courts would find it to be a constitutional right" under Sections 7 and 15 of the Charter. He stated: "I was right in 2021 and I'm right now." He included a sunset clause in Bill C-7 that would automatically make people with mental illness as their sole condition eligible for assisted death.
Reality: The expansion has been delayed three times because provinces said they were "not ready." The Canadian Association for Suicide Prevention warned this would normalize suicide for mentally ill Canadians. Meanwhile, Canada's mental health system is chronically underfunded — average wait times for psychiatric care exceed one year in most provinces.
Sources: Justice Committee — Feb 14, 2023 · Hansard — Feb 23, 2021 · The Tyee · CASP Brief to Parliament
MAID Expansion

Lametti chose not to appeal the Truchon decision — opening the door to Track 2

October 9, 2020 — Hansard · House of Commons
Lametti told the House that the government decided not to appeal the Truchon and Gladu decision because they agreed that MAID should be available to address intolerable suffering outside of the end-of-life context. This was the foundational rationale for Bill C-7 and Track 2.
Reality: The Truchon decision was a Quebec Superior Court ruling. Lametti could have appealed it. Instead, he chose to accept and expand it nationally via Bill C-7 — making it legal to kill Canadians who are not dying. By framing the non-appeal as inevitable (“the courts would find it constitutional anyway”), Lametti avoided a democratic debate on whether Canada should expand state-assisted death to the non-terminally ill. 76,475 Canadians have been killed through MAID since 2016.
Sources: Hansard — Oct 9, 2020 · CBC: Truchon Decision
Liberal Counterattack

Karina Gould accuses Poilievre of “hiding something” by refusing clearance

October 2024 — Karina Gould, Liberal House Leader
Gould accused Poilievre of “hiding something” by refusing security clearance, while all other party leaders — NDP, Bloc, Green — had obtained or were obtaining clearance to read the classified NSICOP report on foreign interference.
Reality: The Liberals use Poilievre’s refusal as a political weapon — but they sat on CSIS foreign interference warnings for years. Both parties are using national security as a partisan tool while neither addresses the underlying problem. The bipartisan failure is the real story: foreign agents operated freely in Canada while Liberals and Conservatives took turns blaming each other.
Sources: CBC News — Oct 2024
Military Justice Failure

Chrétien government shut down the Somalia Inquiry before it finished

January 1997 — Somalia Commission of Inquiry
The Somalia Commission of Inquiry was terminated by the Chrétien government before completing its work, in the months before the 1997 election. Defence Minister Art Eggleton rejected the inquiry’s 2,000-page report and attacked the integrity of commissioner Peter Desbarats.
Reality: The inquiry’s principal recommendation — a formal Inspector General system modeled on the U.S. military — was rejected. Academic accounts describe it as “publicly trashed by the high command and quickly forgotten by the government.” Instead, a weaker military ombudsman position was created with only reactive (not proactive) powers. The structural failure identified in 1997 persists today — CFNIS remains under the chain of command it is supposed to investigate.
Sources: Canadian Encyclopedia · Hansard — March 19, 1998

Veterans Affairs Canada

The department responsible for supporting Canadian military veterans offered them death instead.

Veterans Offered Death

VAC caseworker offered MAID to veterans seeking help for PTSD

2019 – 2022 — Multiple VAC offices
At least four Canadian military veterans were offered medically assisted death by a Veterans Affairs Canada caseworker when they called seeking help with PTSD and mental health issues. One veteran called seeking support — and was told about MAID instead.
Reality: Veterans Affairs initially claimed it was "one single employee" and "not systemic." More veterans then came forward. The RCMP was called to investigate. The caseworker was removed but VAC would not confirm whether they were fired or resigned. Minister Lawrence MacAulay's claim that it was an isolated incident was contradicted by multiple veterans from different offices coming forward.
Sources: CBC — RCMP investigation · CBC — Caseworker removed · Global News · VAC official report

Conservative Party of Canada

The opposition is not innocent. Foreign interference targeted Conservative leadership races. Their leader refuses to look at the evidence.

Security Clearance Refusal

Poilievre refuses to get security clearance — the only party leader to do so

2024 – Present — Multiple public statements
Pierre Poilievre has repeatedly refused to obtain top-secret security clearance to view classified CSIS intelligence on foreign interference. He is the sole federal party leader who has not received these briefings. He also refused CSIS "threat reduction measures" briefings.
Reality: The NSICOP report found that foreign actors — specifically China and India — targeted Conservative leadership races. India allegedly helped organize support for Poilievre's 2022 leadership bid. By refusing clearance, Poilievre maintains plausible deniability about what foreign governments did to help elect him. Every other party leader has obtained clearance.
Sources: The Walrus · Globe and Mail · Global News · CBC News
Foreign Interference in CPC

China and India interfered in Conservative leadership races

2020 & 2022 — NSICOP Report
The National Security and Intelligence Committee of Parliamentarians (NSICOP) report found "two specific instances" where officials from the People's Republic of China interfered in Conservative leadership races. India allegedly interfered in a separate race.
Reality: The 2020 race (won by Erin O'Toole) and the 2022 race (won by Poilievre) were both targeted. CSIS learned India helped organize support for Poilievre's bid. Rather than confront this, Poilievre refuses to see the evidence. The Conservative campaign co-chair for 2021 said the government's election security task force didn't take their concerns seriously either.
Sources: CBC — Foreign Interference Inquiry · Brooke Jeffrey analysis · Policy Magazine
Harper Government

Harper's deputy chief of staff claims CSIS never briefed her on foreign interference

2013 – 2015 — Committee testimony
Jenni Byrne, who served as Stephen Harper's deputy chief of staff, told a House of Commons committee that CSIS never briefed her on foreign interference during her time in the PMO.
Reality: Committee members expressed doubts about her claim. Foreign interference was happening under both Liberal AND Conservative governments. Neither party acted on it. The problem is bipartisan — and both sides use it as a political weapon rather than addressing it.
Sources: CBC News
Military Justice Failure

Gen. Jonathan Vance — Guilty Plea: Obstruction of Justice

March 2022 — Former Chief of Defence Staff · Criminal conviction
General Jonathan Vance, once the highest-ranking military officer in Canada, pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice. Major Kellie Brennan testified before Parliament that Vance told her he was “untouchable.”
Reality: Vance was CDS from 2015 to 2021 — the entire period during which CSIS was warning the government about Chinese foreign interference in Canadian institutions, including the military. The allegations against Vance were known internally for years, but only surfaced publicly when they became politically convenient.

The question nobody is asking: Was Vance targeted? He was the highest-ranking military officer in Canada during the most critical period of foreign interference exposure. He had access to everything. The allegations were disclosed; the date of that disclosure in relation to the public record of military intelligence failures is on the record. Remove the CDS, replace him with someone compliant, and suddenly the foreign interference briefings stop mattering. Vance got 80 hours of community service — less than a DUI — because the goal was never punishment. The goal was removal. The same system that targeted Vance targets every whistleblower: use personal allegations to destroy credibility, then bury the real story underneath.
Sources: CBC: Vance Guilty Plea · CBC: Brennan Testimony · Military Police Complaints Commission
Military Justice Failure

Somalia Affair — Murder, Torture & Cover-Up

1993 — Canadian Airborne Regiment · International scandal
Members of the Canadian Airborne Regiment tortured and murdered Shidane Arone, a Somali teenager, during a peacekeeping mission. The subsequent investigation revealed systematic cover-ups by military police and leadership, including destruction of evidence.
Reality: The Somalia Inquiry (1997) found the military justice system, including military police investigators, had participated in the cover-up. The Airborne Regiment was disbanded. Soldiers deployed to Somalia were given mefloquine — an anti-malarial drug known to cause psychosis, hallucinations, and violent behaviour. The government experimented on its own troops, then blamed individual soldiers when they broke. The same military police system (now CFNIS) that covered up Somalia is the one prosecuting whistleblowers today.
Sources: Somalia Affair (Wikipedia) · CBC: Mefloquine & Canadian Military · Globe and Mail
Military Justice Failure

Military Ombudsman told Sajjan about Vance — Sajjan refused to look at the evidence

March 3, 2021 — Gary Walbourne, Military Ombudsman · NDDN Committee testimony
Walbourne testified under oath: he directly told Defence Minister Sajjan about allegations of inappropriate behaviour against the Chief of Defence Staff. He reached into his pocket to show evidence — and Sajjan pushed back from the table and said “No.” Sajjan then referred the matter to the Privy Council Office rather than keeping it confidential as Walbourne requested.
Reality: The Minister of Defence was told about the highest-ranking officer in the Canadian military and refused to look at the evidence. Then referred it to the PMO’s office — not to investigators. The system is designed to protect the chain of command, not the people it abuses.
Sources: CBC: Walbourne Testimony · House of Commons NDDN Committee, March 3, 2021
Military Justice Failure

Major Brennan: Vance said he was “untouchable” and “owned the CFNIS”

April 22, 2021 — Major Kellie Brennan · FEWO Committee testimony
Major Brennan testified that General Vance told her he was “untouchable” and that “he owned the CFNIS.” She stated CFNIS had recordings of Vance directing her in what to say and what to exclude.
Reality: If the Chief of Defence Staff believed he “owned” the military police — the same military police investigating whistleblowers — then CFNIS was never independent. The Somalia Inquiry recommended an Inspector General to fix this. The government rejected it. Decades later, the same structural failure persists.
Sources: CBC: Brennan Testimony · Globe and Mail · FEWO Committee, April 22, 2021
Whistleblower Protection

Canada’s whistleblower law called a “tissue paper shield”

2017 – 2019 — Tom Devine, Government Accountability Project · OGGO Committee
Tom Devine, Legal Director of the Government Accountability Project, described Canada’s PSDPA as a “tissue paper shield.” The Commissioner had referred only seven whistleblowers to the Tribunal in the Act’s entire history. No case had reached the point where the Tribunal could order a remedy.
Reality: The OGGO Committee heard 52 witnesses over five months and made 34 recommendations to fix the Act. International experts recommended scrapping it entirely. The government’s response was a one-and-a-quarter-page letter committing to no reform. David Hutton of the Federal Accountability Initiative called the committee’s work “essentially lost.”
Sources: OGGO Report No. 9 (PDF) · CBC: Tissue Paper Shield · Centre for Free Expression
Foreign Interference

NSICOP: Some parliamentarians are “semi-witting or witting” participants in foreign interference

June 3, 2024 — NSICOP Special Report
The National Security and Intelligence Committee of Parliamentarians reported that some parliamentarians are “semi-witting or witting” participants in foreign state interference. Alleged activities included: accepting funds from foreign missions, providing privileged information to foreign diplomatic officials, and responding to direction of foreign officials to influence parliamentary business.
Reality: The names remain classified. Pierre Poilievre is the only party leader who refuses security clearance to read the report. All other party leaders — NDP, Bloc, Green — have obtained or are obtaining clearance.
Sources: NSICOP Report (PDF) · CBC News
Foreign Interference

Michael Chong: Canada has become a “playground” for foreign interference

May 2023 — Michael Chong, Conservative MP · Question of Privilege
Chong and his family were targeted by Chinese diplomat Wei Zhao as reprisal for his February 2021 motion recognizing the Uyghur genocide. He learned about the targeting from the Globe and Mail — not from CSIS or the government. He testified at the Foreign Interference Commission that Canada has become a “playground” for foreign interference.
Reality: CSIS knew about the threat to Chong but the information never reached him. The diplomat was expelled. China retaliated. The government then ordered CSIS to share more information directly with targeted parliamentarians — an admission the system had failed.
Sources: CBC: Chong Targeted · House of Commons PROC Report
Foreign Interference

CSIS produced 2,500+ intelligence reports on foreign interference in 2022 alone

2022 — Canadian Security Intelligence Service
In 2022, CSIS produced more than 2,500 intelligence products on foreign interference and other threats to Canada, and conducted 49 briefings with federal elected officials.
Reality: 2,500 intelligence products. 49 briefings to elected officials. And the government took no meaningful action until journalists forced the issue in 2023. The PMO received 34 briefings on foreign interference since 2018 according to CSIS. They knew. They all knew.
Sources: Hansard, May 4, 2023 · Globe and Mail: 34 PMO Briefings
Emergencies Act

Mendicino told Parliament police recommended the Emergencies Act — his own deputy minister said that’s not what happened

Feb – April 2022 — Marco Mendicino · Minister of Public Safety
Mendicino told Parliament on February 28, 2022: the government invoked the Emergencies Act “on the basis of non-partisan, professional advice from law enforcement.” He repeated this claim in April 2022.
Reality: His own deputy minister later told committee that Mendicino “didn’t mean police directly asked for the law to be used.” RCMP Commissioner Lucki testified under oath she never asked for the Emergencies Act. The Special Joint Committee found MPs were “intentionally misled.” Mendicino was not censured. He was not fired. He was appointed Chief of Staff to PM Mark Carney.
Sources: OpenParliament: Feb 28, 2022 · OpenParliament: April 26, 2022 · CTV: Deputy Minister Clarification · CBC: Conservative Calls for Resignation
MAID

"The Conservative Party of Canada will not support the expansion of medical assistance in dying."

2021 – Present — Conservative Party Leadership
Conservative leadership publicly claimed they would not support the expansion of MAID to those whose death is not reasonably foreseeable (Track 2) or for mental illness.
Reality: While they opposed it in public statements, when the Harper government originally faced the Carter decision, they failed to invoke the Notwithstanding Clause to protect vulnerable Canadians. When the Liberals introduced Bill C-7 to expand MAID, Conservative pushback was largely political theater. They ultimately failed to stop the expansion, quietly moving on to other wedge issues while 76,475 vulnerable Canadians were killed by the state. Their opposition rings hollow when they failed to use every tool at their disposal to stop the genocide.
Sources: Hansard (Conservative Statements on C-7) · CPC Policy Declaration

The Pattern

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