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China and Russia once again tried to interfere in Canada’s latest federal election but likely had minimal impact on the vote that was ultimately free and fair, said the foreign interference in elections watchdog.

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“While foreign actors attempted to undermine it, it did not affect the integrity of the election. There were no significant security incidents observed during the election, no cyber threats and no incidents of violent expression,” Security and Intelligence Threats to Elections (SITE) Task Force spokesperson Laurie-Anne Kempton told reporters Thursday.

SITE — composed of the RCMP, Canadian Security Intelligence Service, Communications Security Establishment and Global Affairs Canada — is tasked with monitoring federal elections for foreign interference. But the public is only advised of foreign efforts if they meet a certain threshold for disclosure.

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[–] Severus_Snape@lemmy.world 45 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

I lived in Canada for a while. Quebec to be precise.

I would argue the biggest interference in the country is perhaps the United States.

  • The National Post
  • The Montreal Gazette
  • Ottawa Citizen
  • Vancouver Sun
  • Ottawa Sun
  • Edmonton Journal
  • Edmonton Sun
  • Fort McMurray Today
  • Toronto Sun
  • Calgary Sun
  • Windsor Star
  • Calgary Herald
  • The Province
  • London Free Press.

All these newspapers belong to Post Media, a company owned by americans living in New Jersey.

One of the biggest lobbying organization in Canada is actually american. Microsoft Canada very aggressively lobbies the federal government, provinces and even the small cities. Because they want them to keep buying expensive Microsoft Office licenses and expensive Microsoft Windows licenses. They don't want Canadian institutions to use Linux or LibreOffice.

[–] randomname@scribe.disroot.org 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

@Severus_Snape@lemmy.world

And what exactly has that to do with Canada's official report(s) on election interference?

Here you can find the latest with all the links: Government of Canada Publishes Election Security and Integrity Reports Covering the 45th General Election

There is much more on the official site. Among others, it reads:

Furthermore, in previously noted behaviours, the PRC has been observed engaging in transnational repression activities, which involve a range of tactics designed to exert influence and control beyond its borders. These tactics include leveraging PRC-based relatives and other connections to pressure those in Canada to refrain from adopting views the PRC sees as hostile, or to return to the PRC, and threatening PRC-based family members with an array of potential coercive actions, including detention or financial penalties.

[–] whiwake@lemmy.cafe 3 points 1 day ago

They will get notified, you don’t need to tag them.

Also, I think they are talking about media influence on people as a way to manipulate opinions and voter outcomes. Which is on topic

[–] SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Rich people have no nationality

[–] yucandu@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago

I don't listen to any online internet propaganda unless it is present in both English and Francais.

And that's Quebecois Francais. We can tell the difference.

[–] primrosepathspeedrun@anarchist.nexus 17 points 1 day ago (4 children)

How do we always just know that foreign interference is gonna be pro conservative?

[–] 9point6@lemmy.world 16 points 1 day ago

The concept of not playing fairly is intrinsic to conservative ideology

[–] DreamAccountant@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago

Nazis fuck everything up, and nation that wants to fuck up another one just has to introduce nazis.

Try the same thing with the radical left, and you get things like car-free areas, clean air, medicide for all, free education, working public services, etc...

That just helps the country become more stable, healthy, and educated.

That's why. It's fucking obvious. Very, very, very fucking obvious.

[–] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 5 points 1 day ago

Because conservatives tend to he better at running things into the ground. Not to absolve liberals of blame for, you know, everything, but generally anything bad liberals do you can count on conservatives to do more of, so it just makes sense.

[–] doben@lemmy.wtf 2 points 1 day ago

Interfering by supporting progressive currents would only stabilize the system. But the plan is to destabilize the world hegemon, the US, in order to establish multipolarity instead of unipolarity. Conservative policies will destabilize the system because of their regressive nature and therefore enable the deconstruction of the world’s hyper-aggressive US dictatorship.

Not that I support any specific thing or country, but that’s my attempt of an explanation. Don’t shoot me.

[–] DreamAccountant@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago (3 children)

"but to little avail"

THIS time. Next time, they'll do the exact same thing after studying what didn't work.

Oh, and the nazis lost in Canada? Explain their takeover of Alberta, then! You lost an entire state to the nazis, but all the foreign interference didn't do anything? Bullshit.

Stop allowing fascist broadcasts on your media immediately.

[–] Jhex@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago

Oh, and the nazis lost in Canada? Explain their takeover of Alberta, then!

Easy, it was already taken over from before... Alberta has been an ignorant Conservative butt sniffing Province for the last 30 years

[–] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 day ago

We can't just ban US content you know.

[–] Heliumfart@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago