Ottawa’s Foreign Influence Registry Legislation to Be Delayed by Further Consultations

Published on November 25, 2023

Incoming legislation to deal with foreign interference in Canada has been pushed back, with the federal government announcing additional consultations focusing on whether changes are needed for Canada’s primary intelligence agency and the Criminal Code. “The set of legislative reforms we are putting forth today for consultation would give the Government of Canada another set of tools to detect and disrupt foreign state and non-state actors that attempt to act against our national interest,” said Minister of Public Safety, Democratic Institutions and Intergovernmental Affairs Dominic LeBlanc in a Nov. 24 news release. The minister calls foreign interference in Canadians institutions or others sectors of society “plainly unacceptable.”...

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