In February, Australia’s minister of home affairs (broadly analogous to Canada’s minister of public safety) delivered a lengthy address on the topic of foreign interference in her country. Her goal, she said, was “a public discussion about this problem which is open, apolitical and commensurate with the size of the challenge that we face.”
“it’s time to bring foreign interference out of the shadows and into the light,” Claire O’Neil said.
Australia is several years ahead of Canada on this issue, so perhaps it’s not surprising the Canadian political system has not yet gotten to the point of having a suitably open, apolitical and light-filled discussion about foreign interference.
But Canada is not getting there fast — and
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