‘A real warning’: foreign influence registry off to rocky start with dearth of expected registrants
Sole active registrant Gerald Chipeur says most may still wrongly assume the law targets covert agents, while prospective registrant and national security expert Leah West says Ottawa bears responsibility for the low uptake.
Canada’s new foreign influence registry was supposed to make it easier for the public to see who is trying to influence government on behalf of foreign interests, but more than two months after it was launched, barely any of the expected listings have materialized.
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