Why a Foreign Influence Registry Act is necessary for Canada’s national security

A foreign influence registry would increase the transparency needed for citizens, journalists, and others to track politicians’ and lobbyists’ activities, interests, budgets, and affiliations.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's government should create a transparency registration system, which makes people's interests visible in a way that allows public scrutiny, write Sze-Fung Lee and Benjamin Fung. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY SZE-FUNG LEE AND BENJAMIN FUNG

June 15, 2022

The Trudeau government finally decided to ban Huawei and ZTE from our 5G networks after three years of controversies around the China telecoms equipment-makers and long after the United States'

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