The federal government has launched public consultations to begin the process of creating a foreign agent registry in Canada, which will require individuals or entities working on behalf of a foreign authority to register with the Canadian government.
Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino announced the beginning of the consultations on March 10 during a press conference in Ottawa, telling reporters that they are intended to “broadly engage all Canadians” in discussions about foreign interference in Canadian institutions.
Mendicino also said the consultations will be intended to help find a way of modernizing current legislative authorities to give them ways of addressing “foreign state activities that go beyond legitimate diplomacy in an attempt to clandestinely or deceptively manipulate Canada’s open democracy.”…