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Public Safety Minister Dominic LeBlanc speaks to reporters in the foyer of the House of Commons in Ottawa on June 3, 2024. LeBlanc is tight-lipped following the release of a report that says unnamed MPs have participated in foreign interference in Canadian politics. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick

Murky details: Why the federal government must divulge which MPs conspired with foreign powers

If Canada’s political leaders want the public to trust them, they need to trust citizens with foreign interference information contained in a recent security and intelligence report.
Commissioner Justice Marie-Josée Hogue makes her way to the stage to deliver remarks on the interim report of the Public Inquiry into Foreign Interference in Federal Electoral Processes and Democratic Institutions on May 3, 2024. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld

New commission sheds light on how diaspora communities are impacted by foreign interference

The perspectives of people from diaspora communities on how to stop foreign interference must be part of Canada’s electoral landscape so that Canadian democracy remains resilient.
Pavel Sulyandziga, a Russian Indigenous activist, poses with his family in 2017 in Yarmouth, Maine, where he awaits a decision on political asylum. Derek Davis/Portland Portland Press Herald via Getty Images

Long after Indigenous activists flee Russia, they continue to face government pressure to remain silent

More than six years after Pavel Sulyandziga, an Indigenous activist from Russia, left the country to seek political asylum in the US, he continues to face harassment by the Russian government.

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