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Dominant reflex of security and intelligence network ‘to keep info as secret as possible,’ should ‘hardwire’ transparency into day-to-day work, say experts

'If you’re going to have a true democracy, then one needs to open up different agencies to public scrutiny,' says Bessma Momani, professor of political science at the University of Waterloo and a senior fellow at the Centre for International Governance and Innovation (CIGI).

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National security expert Wesley Wark says the proposed foreign influence transparency registry should list 'foreign states of concern,' including China, Russia, North Korea, and Iran, and Canadians who have 'beneficial' engagements with them.

Foreign influence transparency registry needs to be more than ‘political theatre,’ says Wark

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National security expert Wesley Wark says the proposed foreign influence transparency registry should list 'foreign states of concern,' including China, Russia, North Korea, and Iran, and Canadians who have 'beneficial' engagements with them.

Public inquiry ‘not useful’ to investigate foreign interference, it could harm international relations, national defence, national security, says Wark

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Wesley Wark says the government should have taken a more mature approach and outlined what it knows about Chinese interference, how it's been tracked, and the steps it's taking to prevent it. But he also said the focus has been on the 'wrong issues.' Wark says the threat of democratic interference by authoritarian countries like China and Russia are real and longstanding and he says the big dangers from foreign-state actor interference are two-fold.

Public inquiry ‘not useful’ to investigate foreign interference, it could harm international relations, national defence, national security, says Wark

NewsBY CHRISTOPHER GULY

Wesley Wark says the government should have taken a more mature approach and outlined what it knows about Chinese interference, how it's been tracked, and the steps it's taking to prevent it. But he also said the focus has been on the 'wrong issues.' Wark says the threat of democratic interference by authoritarian countries like China and Russia are real and longstanding and he says the big dangers from foreign-state actor interference are two-fold.