Sam is one of the few reporters to be on the foreign interference beat in Canada. There's a significant problem that has been ignored too long. However, I have some concerns with how this is being reporting. Here, the Daily Foreign Intelligence Brief, a product of PCO Intelligence Assessment Secretariat, is being presented as a PCO National Security Assessment. That's an exaggeration. Also IAS has no access to raw domestic reporting.
https://twitter.com/scoopercooper/status/1602777585091547136?s=20&t=H_VLDr_dvRFZYsl4QaI8KA
It's not clear what PCO IAS is reporting on. Is it foreign intelligence? CSIS Assessments? What is the source of the information? And was this the only product this appears in?
The government response to this has also been completely stupid - a direct answer should have been made clear ASAP. Now this has dragged on for months.
None of this is to say there isn't foreign interference - there is. But this has turned into a story about "what is the government hiding from us? and not about the actual victims of foreign interference activities from China, mainly Chinese-Canadians and other marginalized groups.
@DeepGreenDesign None of the candidates have been named publicly or are mentioned in public versions of documents. It is not clear to me where the "11" number came from. It is a very specific number.