Written by: Yves Engler The foreign interference panic sweeping Canadian media and politics reflects US power and racism. The frenzy has already led to dangerous new legislation. The Canadian institutions most strongly connected to the US are leading the China interference scare. The Canadian Secu
I went looking for coverage of this from the big news media and didn’t find a whole lot.
When the best the CBC can do is one brief mention that civil liberties groups had “several issues with the bill” right at the end of a lightweight report that mostly stresses how urgent it is to combat foreign interference, many Canadians will resort to trashy “news” sites like The Canada Files which from the looks of some of the things it publishes has a pretty high probability of itself being a foreign disinformation campaign.
I went looking for coverage of this from the big news media and didn’t find a whole lot.
When the best the CBC can do is one brief mention that civil liberties groups had “several issues with the bill” right at the end of a lightweight report that mostly stresses how urgent it is to combat foreign interference, many Canadians will resort to trashy “news” sites like The Canada Files which from the looks of some of the things it publishes has a pretty high probability of itself being a foreign disinformation campaign.