{"id":840541,"date":"2026-08-01T14:40:42","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T14:40:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/840541\/"},"modified":"2026-08-01T14:40:42","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T14:40:42","slug":"randhawa-asks-feds-to-stage-surrey-town-hall-meeting-on-foreign-election-interference-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/840541\/","title":{"rendered":"Randhawa asks feds to stage Surrey town hall meeting on foreign election interference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>              Randhawa asks feds to stage Surrey town hall meeting on foreign election interference<\/p>\n<p class=\"pubStamp\">Published 10:15 am Thursday, July 30, 2026<\/p>\n<p>Surrey mayoral candidate Honveer Randhawa is asking federal Minister of Public Safety Gary Anandasangaree to \u201ctravel to Surrey without delay\u201d to participate in a public town hall meeting here on foreign election interference and transnational threats to Canadian democracy. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cYour presence on the ground is important to reassuring residents who are understandably concerned about the recent allegations involving Surrey\u2019s municipal election,\u201d Randhawa wrote the minister on July 30.<\/p>\n<p>Randhawa is leading the Conservative Party of Surrey into the October 17 civic election.<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s calling on Anandasangaree and Minister of Foreign Affairs Anita Anand for \u201cimmediate\u201d action from the federal government to investigate alleged foreign interference in this campaign after Safe Surrey Coalition mayoral candidate <a href=\"https:\/\/surreynowleader.com\/2026\/07\/29\/mccallum-claims-indian-election-interference-in-surrey-demands-investigation\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Doug McCallum broached the issue on July 28<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRecent reporting has raised alarming claims that a coordinated network of at least six Facebook pages, presenting themselves to residents as local news sources, may be operated and funded from India while purchasing advertising directed at voters in Surrey, Delta and Vancouver,\u201d Randhawa told the ministers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI do not present these allegations as established facts, nor do I ask Canadians to accept them without evidence. I do, however, believe that they must be investigated promptly, independently and thoroughly so that Surrey residents can know the truth.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>He also asked Anandasangaree to take \u201cproactive action\u201d to protect community leaders and all religious institutions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPlease commit immediately to proactive measures protecting at-risk community leaders, candidates, activists and religious institutions,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Randhawa asks feds to stage Surrey town hall meeting on foreign election interference Published 10:15 am Thursday, July&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":840542,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194299],"tags":[49,48,87674],"class_list":["post-840541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-surrey","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-surrey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=840541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840541\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/840542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=840541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=840541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=840541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}