The West Block – Episode 25, Season 12
We saw more heated debate in Ottawa last week over foreign interference in Canadian politics. Cabinet ministers were grilled on what they knew about China’s attempts to interfere in Canada’s democracy. Opposition parties are calling for a public inquiry, and the Prime Minister says he won’t commit until a special rapporteur evaluates the situation. Although, even he seems to admit Canadians patience may be wearing thin.
around legitimate activities of foreign actors. We also want to deter and discourage activities that go beyond legitimate diplomacy and that’s one of the reasons why it’s important that we have this conversation, and most importantly, we want to engage Canadians. We want to bring Canadians along. You’ve been saying throughout the course of our conversation that Canadians are concerned.
Andrew Wallace, Australian MP, Deputy Chair of Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security : “This is happening all day, every day by foreign state actors, particularly China, Russia, Iran and North Korea.”: When it comes to legislation on how best to fight foreign interference, Australia is often cited as a model for Canada to follow. Australia’s foreign influence transparency scheme has been effect since 2018, to combat foreign interference in everything, from government, to media, and from academic, to industry.Joining us now to talk about this is Opposition MP Andrew Wallace.
: Well good morning, Eric, and good morning to all your viewers. Look, this is a significant problem, not just for Australia but for Liberal democracies across the world. We identified a number of years ago through programs like when Huawei wanted to get into our 5G network as far as they wanted to contract to establish our 5G network. We were the first country in the world to block that and we were very pleased to see that the fellow Five Eyes countries followed suit.
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