Why Mark Carney got chippy with a reporter over what an 'unnamed government official' said

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Mark Carney got a little bit chippy when asked by a National Post reporter if he agreed with an unnamed government official who downplayed India’s role in transnational repression and foreign interference in a briefing last week.

“Well, we can debate whether you had a discussion that was not for quotation,” Carney said after the reporter offered to read the transcript of the quote from the official in which they suggested India is no longer actively interfering in Canada’s democratic process.