More laws needed to confront foreign interference, interim RCMP chief says
Foreign interference in Canada has become a top concern after months of reports by Global News and the Globe and Mail on alleged attempts by China to influence the 2019 and 2021 federal elections, citing national security sources and classified reports.
Yet the reports have cast a spotlight on how the government and Canada’s intelligence and public safety agencies — including the RCMP — is combating attempts by China and other hostile foreign actors to influence Canadian society, including its elections. Duheme confirmed the RCMP is investigating who leaked the reports from the Canadian Security Intelligence Service to the media. He added the RCMP can only investigate allegations in intelligence reports if they contained “actionable intelligence” that could be used as evidence in a criminal proceeding.Duheme told MPs last month that no “actionable intelligence” was received by the RCMP regarding recent federal elections.
“That’s been that’s been a sticking point for several years,” he said. But there’s teams that have been working on it to see how we can change that.”Foreign intelligence is just one of many areas that the RCMP is tasked with investigating, along with its commitments to frontline policing in urban and rural areas, combating organized crime and drug trafficking, counterintelligence and even assisting the military in defence operations.
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