Former senior Liberal aide denies delaying approval of CSIS warrant to protect party – But Zita Astravas never clearly explained why 54 days went by between her receiving the CSIS warrant request and Public Safety Minister Bill Blair getting it to sign

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>***OTTAWA, Canada*** *— In a significant development that could reshape Canadian perceptions of the Hogue Commission’s investigation into foreign interference, The Bureau’s national security sources allege that a critical point of the highly sensitive “Michael Chan” warrant—delayed for more than six weeks by Public-Safety Minister Bill Blair’s office—touched on the office of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.*

>*Two sources with* [*direct* ](https://www.mcnallyrobinson.com/9780888903518/sam-cooper/wilful-blindness)*knowledge of the warrant’s contents and the underlying CSIS investigations said its most consequential argument was that CSIS believed Liberal Party powerbroker Michael Chan influenced the Prime Minister’s Office to replace Geng Tan, a sitting Liberal MP, with a new candidate ahead of the 2019 federal election in the Don Valley North riding.*

>*Some CSIS investigators believed this was an attempt of influence “going up to the highest office in the country,” one source said, making the investigation perhaps “the biggest counterintelligence threat we have come across.”*

Simple. The Liberals were busy getting rid of incriminating evidence.