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NATIONAL POST – ‘Leaders not taking foreign interference seriously enough’

By ANGUS REID INSTITUTE June 21, 2024 – The House of Commons rose for summer break this week. It is a ritual that sends bills yet to be passed into legislative purgatory, while sending MPs back into ridings to work the proverbial ‘barbeque circuit’. One subject MPs of all stripes will surely be talking about: the capital gains inclusion increase, most likely to be boosted by Liberal caucus members and pilloried by those in the Conservative tent. What they’re less likely to raise spontaneously: lingering questions and murkiness over the latest revelations in the foreign interference scandal. Capital Gains Tax: One-in-five say increasing inclusion rate will cost them more over next five years A bombshell report was released earlier this month by the National Security and Intelligence Committee of Parliamentarians (NSICOP), a group made up of cross-parliament MPs and senators. The committee’s report detailed the ways foreign interference has been infiltrating Canadian politics. The ensuing political firestorm has put pressure on the Trudeau government to name the individuals who, as the report says were ‘semi-witting or witting’ participants in the efforts of foreign states to interfere in Canadian politics. It has also put Opposition Leader Pierre Poilievre’s decision not to seek [...]

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