Although Justice Marie-Josée Hogue, the commissioner of the public inquiry into foreign interference, found no evidence of foreign meddling affecting the overall results of the 2019 and 2021 federal elections, she says intelligence agencies and the federal government need to urgently reform how they respond to foreign meddling before the next federal election. Mercedes Stephenson explains how Canada’s diaspora groups are reacting to Hogue’s findings, and how much confidence there is the next federal election will be secure.
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