Report on India's interference in Canada's elections shows new strategy, former CSIS agent says
News of those 3 arrests of Indian nationals in the murder of BC sick activist Hardy signature have caused a flurry of international headlines. And just the day before that news broke on Friday, Ottawa’s public inquiry into foreign interference, a whole separate matter revealed attempts by other countries to meddle with Canada’s past two elections. Among those countries implicated was India. We’ve heard a lot about foreign interference allegedly involving China, but when it comes to I1, former security intelligence expert says it’s a much different operation. Appeared in a nomination allegedly and and and made efforts more in a more in a piece meal way than than China has. But I think for Canadians that may have been a bit of a surprise that that India’s interference has gone beyond you know, just what we call repression in diasporic communities. But they’ve actually done some strategic moves in in terms of our electoral processes. The initial report findings suggest a proxy agent of India may have attempted. To secretly give money to unnamed candidates in the 2021 federal election. But that report also says it didn’t affect the overall election results in Canada.