Political harassment targeting our people is a horrible problem that exists in a weird Bermuda Triangle of overlapping Canadian political dysfunctions (The Line)
IMAGE CREDIT : Public Safety Canada Jenny Kwan, NDP MP for Vancouver-East, says it’s “mystifying” that Canada does not yet have a Foreign Influence Transparency Registry. Such a registry, to use the chosen verbiage of the federal government, would require “individuals and entities that enter into an arrangement with a foreign principal ... to register their arrangements and disclose any foreign influence activities undertaken where they are in relation to government or political processes in Canada.” Similar registries are already in place in many countries that we count among our closest allies, to the alarmingly unclear extent that Canada still has allies. Our lack of such a registry, alas, is extremely not mystifying. Honestly, at this point, it would probably be more mystifying if we did have one. The need for such a registry is obvious. The explanation for why we don’t have one, and will probably utterly half-ass any efforts to establish one is, sadly, equally obvious ... CLICK HE...