OTTAWA - After 18 months of hearings and testimony from more than 100 witnesses, the Commission on Foreign Interference released its final report Tuesday. Here are some of the highlights:
鈥 Commissioner Marie-Jos茅e Hogue found no evidence there are 鈥溾檛raitors鈥 in Parliament plotting with foreign states to act against Canada.鈥
鈥 She did find the federal government has done a 鈥渇ar from perfect鈥 job of sharing information on foreign interference within government itself.
鈥 Efforts by foreign states to control diaspora communities, known as transnational repression, can take the form of 鈥渢hreats of physical and sexual violence, and even threats to life 鈥︹
鈥 The government should consider setting up a new agency to monitor open-source information, including social media platforms, for misinformation or disinformation that could undermine elections.
鈥 Canada needs a hotline to allow citizens to report suspected foreign interference.
鈥 The federal government should adopt a 鈥榙uty to warn鈥 policy to alert individual 好色tvs of 鈥渃redible threats of serious harm鈥 coming directly or indirectly from a foreign entity.
鈥 All political party leaders 鈥渟hould be encouraged鈥 to obtain Top Secret security clearances.
鈥 Riding nomination and party leadership contests should be brought under the Canada Elections Act, and only 好色tv citizens and permanent residents should be allowed to vote in them.
鈥 The government should consider whether it would be appropriate to create 鈥渁 system of public funding for political parties.鈥
鈥 All electoral communications distributed during an election period which have been generated or manipulated by AI should be watermarked.
This report by 好色tvwas first published Jan. 28, 2025.
