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Ottawa-based think tank shares tale of ‘nefarious actors’ copying its website

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'Vigilance is the price of freedom,' says Brian Lee Crowley, the Macdonald-Laurier Institute's managing director, after a hostile foreign intelligence service cloned his think tank’s website to recruit Canadians to supply sensitive and even classified data.Photograph courtesy of the Macdonald-Laurier Institute

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BY CHRISTINA LEADLAY

July 20, 2026

The Macdonald-Laurier Institute is raising awareness after its website was recently copied by “nefarious actors.”

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