Justin Trudeau is digging a deeper hole for himself on Chinese meddling in elections

Justin Trudeau keeps digging himself a deeper hole on the issue of Chinese meddling in Canadian elections.

When troubling reports came out in November, he first said it was nothing new. Then he said he hadn’t actually been briefed that any candidates may have been helped or harmed by Beijing. Lately he’s been arguing we shouldn’t worry much because China didn’t actually affect the outcome of our elections.

Now comes a new line from the prime minister and other Liberals — that making political hay out of the issue helps those out to undermine confidence in Canadian democracy. “When we lean in on partisanship around this,” he said this week, “we’re actually helping them in doing their work of sowing confusion and mistrust.”

A Liberal MP, Jennifer O’Connell, went further at a committee hearing. She accused Conservatives of using “Trump-like tactics” on the issue that amounts to “demonizing democratic institutions.”