Freeland says there has 'probably' already been some foreign meddling in the upcoming election
Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland delivers a statement to media in the margins of the G7 Foreign Ministers Meeting in Dinard, France on April 5, 2019.
U.S. intelligence officials and the governments of some European Union countries have accused Russia of interfering in their elections in recent years, allegations strongly denied by Moscow. "Our judgment is that interference is very likely and we think there have probably already been efforts by malign foreign actors to disrupt our democracy," she said, speaking at a media freedom event on the sidelines of a G7 foreign ministers meeting in France.
The foreign ministers of the G7 nations - United States, France, Japan, Germany, Britain, Italy and Canada as well as the European Union are meeting in Dinard, Brittany, where they are expected later to agree on common norms that would seek to prevent foreign powers from destabilizing democratic nations.
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