On Wednesday, the feds unveiled new measures designed to strengthen the protection of Canada’s electoral system from foreign meddling. However, it looks like they’re leaving out the biggest threat — foreign funding in our elections — which had a material impact on the outcome of our 2015 federal election, in Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s favour.
Conservative Senator Linda Frum, who has been at the forefront of pushing for new legislation to close loopholes that allow foreigners to influence and interfere with Canadian elections, says while Bill C-76 has improved the situation, “there remain a lot of large loopholes.
“As a critic of Bill C-76, I outlined some of them, proposed an amendment to correct one large hole — the possibility that a foreign group can use a single, token Canadian member to qualify as a Canadian third party under the law — but the Trudeau senators voted it down, without any debate,” she said.
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