Day: 25 September 2024

Foreign interference: Canadian parties system leaks like a sieve

TORONTO – Choice of candidates and party financing: these are the two “doors” that allow hostile foreign states to “enter” Canada to interfere, or at least try, in the elections and, consequently, in the country’s politics. This is what, in a nutshell, the head of Elections Canada, Stéphane Perrault (Chief Electoral Officer of Canada), reported to the Foreign Interference Commission.