The Canadian Security Intelligence Service, the country’s highest foreign intelligence agency, has alleged that India had potentially interfered in the country’s election in a recent intelligence report. The report accessed by the media on Thursday named India as a ‘foreign interference threat’ and stated that the government “must do more to protect Canada’s robust democratic institutions and processes.”
Foreign interference networks are “deeply embedded” in Canadian politics, and operate at every level of government, according to a declassified intelligence report obtained by Global News.
The Canadian Security Intelligence Service report, released under the Access to Information Act, also warned that foreign interference was “incrementally” weakening Canada’s democracy.
TORONTO — When Mehmet Tohti heard Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announce that authorities were pursuing “credible allegations” that agents of the Indian government were involved in the murder of a Sikh separatist on Canadian soil, he was not surprised.
Tohti, the head of the Uyghur Rights Advocacy Project in Ottawa, said Trudeau’s bombshell comments in the House of Commons on Monday have revealed to the world what Canada’s diaspora communities have long warned about: The governments of their homelands routinely harass, intimidate and threaten them — at home, school and everywhere in between.
And Canadian authorities, they and others allege, have failed to take their claims seriously, offer protection or adequately counter the threat — one intelligence agencies here have warned is growing.
