OTTAWA — Malign foreign actors will likely try to meddle in Canada’s federal election in October, Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland says.
“I think our judgment is interference is very likely and we think there has probably already been efforts by malign foreign actors to disrupt our democracy,” Freeland said Friday in France, while attending a G7 ministers’ meeting.
The G7 is seized with the issue of foreign intrusions in democratic countries and Freeland made the issue a top priority when Canada hosted the bloc last year.
She did not specifically mention Russia, but there were widespread reports of that country interfering in …read more
Source: National Newswatch
