Regierung von Carney wird beschuldigt, beim Register ausländischer Agenten zu zögern
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-carney-government-dragging-feet-foreign-agent-registry/
Regierung von Carney wird beschuldigt, beim Register ausländischer Agenten zu zögern
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-carney-government-dragging-feet-foreign-agent-registry/
3 Kommentare
It’s probably because the Liberals have absolutely been dragging their heels on it. If they wanted this done, it would have been done already.
I suspect they’re concerned about the implications of American, Indian and Chinese-affiliated agents being forced to disclose their ties and the potential fallout of specific diaspora communities.
This really was supposed to be a government who could get important things done quickly.
They are dragging their feet for the same reason Poilievre doesn’t want to get a security clearance. Our politicians don’t actually enjoy being brazenly manipulated by their own intelligence community.
>The United States has had a foreign agent registry since 1938, while Australia set up one in 2018 and Britain in 2023.
Our version will be modelled on the newer ones which wouldn’t you know it don’t treat all foreign agents equally (like the American act does) but creates a threat hierarchy established by the America dominated Five Eyes. Just another vehicle for the Americans to throw roadblocks on any attempts to dig out from under them.
I’d be happy to see Canada enact a foreign agent registry modelled on FARA, but that could never happen in present circumstances.
I suspect the impossibility of tracking just how many unregistered American foreign agents exist, coupled with the recent outreaches to India and China, make any effective registry politically unwanted. Those three are almost certainly the top three sources of hostile foreign influence in Canada – without them, a registry that just catches the small fry (Iran, Pakistan, etc.) and non-hostile actors (the EU, our East Asian partners, etc.) would be a bit pointless.