Investigator probing Chinese election interference in Canada resigns abruptly.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's special investigator on foreign interference, David Johnston, has resigned amid controversy over leaked information about China's alleged meddling in Canada's elections. Johnston recommended public hearings to educate the public and consider necessary reforms to various aspects of the government's systems and policies dealing with foreign interference. All opposition parties in the House of Commons have called for the government to hold a public inquiry into the allegations of foreign interference, but Johnston recently released a report recommending against that. Earlier this year, Canada expelled a Chinese diplomat alleged by Canada's spy agency to have been involved in a plot to intimidate an opposition Conservative lawmaker and his relatives in Hong Kong.