Since companies like Taboola and Facebook can’t seem to control fake news, the question is who can?

The Trudeau government has given the job to the heaviest hitters the system has to offer—the PCO clerk; Canada’s national security adviser; and the deputy ministers of three federal departments, Justice, Public Safety, and Global Affairs.

National Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan, Democratic Institutions Minister Karina Gould and Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale, pictured Jan. 30, 2019, with CBC reporter Elizabeth Thompson, who ran the press conference, at the National Press Theatre in Ottawa where the ministers announced the government's new safeguards to Canada's democracy and efforts to combat foreign interference in elections. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY MICHAEL HARRIS

February 11, 2019

HALIFAX—Jagmeet Singh has taken the first low blow in the 2019 federal election. He received an online kick in the meat-pies with just 18 days left before the Burnaby South byelection, in which the NDP leader hopes to win a seat in the House of Commons. What happened to Singh is important in its...

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