Action, not avoidance, necessary on foreign interference

Instead of fuelling chatter and wannabe Joe McCarthys, political leaders should be taking a united approach to addressing whatever security challenges we may be facing.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government is doing nothing more than the bare minimum of public disclosure, and Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives have avoided digging their teeth into the NSICOP report in a constructive manner that could be constructive, writes Tim Powers.The Hill Times photographs by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY TIM POWERS

June 19, 2024

OTTAWA—For the last number of weeks, a parliamentary report on foreign influence in Canada allegedly deliberate or otherwise—or should I say witting or unwitting—has been generating lots of chatter. But on the surface, there hasn’t been a lot of action in response, a...

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