India, April 8 -- While monitoring the digital information ecosystem ahead of Canada's Federal election, a task force has observed an "information operation" linked to Chinese intelligence focused on Prime Minister Mark Carney.

Canadian media and analysts described the posts on the Chinese social media platform WeChat as largely favourable towards the PM.

The posts originated from Youli-Youmian, WeChat's most popular news account. "Intelligence reporting links the Youli-Youmian account to the PRC Chinese Communist Party's Central Political and Legal Affairs Commission," according to a statement from the Privy Council Office, akin to India's Cabinet Secretariat.

This "inauthentic behaviour" was observed by the Security and Intelligence ...