Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew has announced plans to introduce a bill in early 2025 aimed at safeguarding provincial elections from foreign interference, deepfakes, and other threats to electoral integrity. The proposed legislation will build upon existing election laws and address concerns about the spread of false information and manipulated media.
Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew says work is already underway on a bill aimed at protecting provincial elections from foreign interference, forged images and videos, and other issues that could unfairly affect the vote. Kinew speaks to the media ahead of the Speech from the Throne at the Manitoba Legislative Building in Winnipeg on Nov. 19, 2024.
“I’ve seen a draft bill already. We are bringing in legislation, probably in the first sitting of 2025, to address a lot of these issues.” Manitoba’s chief electoral officer, Shipra Verma, said in a recent annual report that the law should be expanded to also ban objectively false information about election officials, the electoral process, the equipment used in elections and more during the period leading up to an election.
If passed into law, the federal bill would clarify that deepfakes are covered under existing measures that ban impersonation and the publication of false statements aimed at affecting elections.
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