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OPINION: Time to act to prevent foreign interference in Canadian elections
The Hogue Commission has provided much of the blueprint -- it is now time to fully implement.
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The public inquiry into foreign interference replaced rumour with a record.
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Across six volumes, Commissioner Marie-Josee Hogue described a threat that is methodical and layered. Foreign interference in Canada is aimed less at ballot boxes than at the conditions that make elections meaningful: Confidence, participation, and the integrity of the information citizens use to make political choices.
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The question is no longer whether Canada has a problem. It is whether governments and institutions will enforce what is already on the books, follow through on the low-friction fixes the commission set out, and tackle the harder structural gaps that still leave Canada exposed. Volume 5 is blunt: Many measures can and should be implemented quickly, with progress reported to Parliament within a year. Others require deeper redesign but build on structures the........