The article wasn't the only reporting though. I imagine the bigger issue with that is what they were saying on TV where they alleged that the Chinese consulate sent the seniors on buses and told them who to vote for (which would likely require some kind of coercion or incentive):
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Farah, after an 8-month investigation intelligence sources have told Global News that current Liberal MP Han Dong is alleged to have been supported by Beijing in 2019 and the Prime Minister’s senior staff were warned about it. Reliably red since 1993, scoring the Liberal nomination in Don Valley North has been harder than winning a general election recently, but instead of leaning on his connections as a former Ontario MPP, sources say Han Dong had help from the Chinese Consulate in Toronto to become the 2019 Liberal candidate in the riding. Through a combination of CSIS documents and intelligence sources, Global News has learned the Consulate allegedly sent two busloads of Chinese Canadian seniors to the Don Valley Liberal nomination meeting and those seniors knew who to vote for because Dong’s name was written on their arm. Sources also say CSIS suspected that Chinese international students with faked addresses were bussed in and told by the PRC consulate to support their preferred candidate if they wanted to maintain their student visa status.
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If it was Dong's campaign who bused the seniors in and they were there of their own volition, then it's not really an issue unless there's evidence of a link to the Chinese consulate.