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No foreign interference report more than one year after Liberal government re-elected

Feb 23, 2023 | 9:21 AM

OTTAWA — A panel tasked with flagging incidents of foreign interference in Canada’s elections has still not released a report evaluating its own work in the 2021 election, more than a year after the Liberals won a second minority government.

The Critical Election Incident Public Protocol was created to monitor and report on threats to the 2019 election with a mandate to continue its work during future elections.

It’s also supposed to do a postelection assessment of how it communicated with Canadians.

An assessment was made public about seven months after the 2019 election, but a similar report for the 2021 campaign is still not available.