Feds won’t say if they will implement chief electoral officer’s call to make spread of election misinformation illegal

Disinformation is on the rise, but there's no straightforward solution.
Chief Electoral Officer Stéphane Perrault, pictured in this file photograph at the National Press Theatre in Ottawa, says disinformation is a 'serious threat' to Canadian democracy.
The government won't say if it plans to take up the Canada's Chief Electoral Officer Stéphane Perrault's recent recommendation to make the spread of disinformation about the electoral process illegal. In response to a list of detailed questions asking whether the government had plans to follow thr...

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