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Welcome to Jean Charest’s world: the backstory on the Conservative Party’s would-be messiah that he’d really rather you not know.

Providing services to Huawei’s Meng Wanzhou. Guiding Xi Jinping’s “national champion” telecom through Canada’s national-security roadblocks. Supplying megaphone services for Beijing’s disinfo ops. . .

It’s official. After a long hiatus from the internecine comings and goings at the jet-setting apex of Canada’s political class, Jean Charest is already being touted as the frontrunner in the race for the leadership of the Conservative Party of Canada.

It was only on Thursday evening that Charest officially launched his candidacy for Erin O’Toole’s old job, and straight away he demonstrated something rather less than forthrightness, you could say, about what he’s been up to all this time.

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