CSIS director says foreign influence problem is real
In a confidential report to Public Safety Minister Vic Toews,
CSIS director Richard Fadden warned that “clandestine efforts by
foreign governments to influence our officials, policies and
communities” are ongoing, adding those targeted by the efforts are
“subject to threats, coercion or potential blackmail.” Fadden wrote the
report following a controversial interview with the CBC during which
Canada’s top spy claimed that public officials in Canada are under the
thumb of foreign [Chinese] governments. The investigation of foreign interference
presents “several challenges” to CSIS, the director wrote, notably
having to distinguish between foreign interference and legitimate
lobbying
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