U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas says the Canadian government has been provided with input on establishing a foreign agent registry during high level talks in Ottawa.
“That is something that the Attorney General of the United States spoke of today in the forum, and we shared some of the practices and laws that we have in place to see if they would be of utility to our partners in Canada,” Mayorkas told CBC News in an interview aired on April 30. The secretary declined to elaborate due to the sensitivity of the issue.
Mayorkas was in Ottawa with U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland on April 28 to discuss cross-border issues such as guns and drug smuggling, with the parties announcing increased cooperation on the matter….