This article originally appeared in iPolitics. Below is an excerpt from the article.
By Alexander Dalziel, June 14, 2024
A dirty politician arranging an overseas meet with a foreign spy. A concerted campaign by multiple foreign powers to infiltrate a democratic state. Political candidates seeking foreign money on the sly to fund their campaigns. No, not the stuff of fiction, but the contents of the National Security and Intelligence Committee of Parliamentarians’ (NSICOP) most recent report on foreign interference in Canada.
NSICOP has painted a sobering picture of the damage malign foreign states, led by China, are doing to Canadian democracy. It is a welcome dose of transparency in a topic characterized by secrecy and unauthorized leaks.
But that transparency raises conundrums about what to do next. The seriousness of the actions demands response and penalties. That intuition starkly reveals the inherent challenges of intelligence in the public domain. Using intelligence to protect democracy in a rule-of-law country is far from impossible, but Canada’s unreadiness to do so has been evident.
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