Allen Sutherland, assistant secretary to the cabinet in the Privy Council Office appears as a witness at the Public Inquiry into Foreign Interference in Federal Electoral Processes and Democratic Institutions, Thursday, September 26, 2024 in Ottawa.
The federal government is considering changes to the way it lets Canadians know about attempts at foreign interference in elections, including lowering the threshold for alerting the public that an attempt has been made.Allen Sutherland, assistant secretary to the cabinet in the Privy Council Office, appears as a witness before the Public Inquiry into Foreign Interference in Federal Electoral Processes and Democratic Institutions on Thursday, Sept. 26, 2024 in Ottawa.
Sutherland said the Critical Election Incident Public Protocol Panel has started its work leading up to the next election and has already met five times. The Security and Intelligence Threats to Elections task force is already up and operating, he added. Sutherland said the threshold for informing Canadians was deliberately set very high because of the risk that such an alert could disrupt an election. Changes are being considered to allow the government to inform Canadians of lower-threshold events, he said.
The foreign interference inquiry headed by Justice Marie-Josée Hogue was set up following media reports which accused China of interfering in the 2019 and 2021 federal elections.
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