No foreign agent registry timeline as Australia warns of ‘unprecedented’ interference
After announcing the launch of public consultations for the registry on Friday, Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino did not say whether he will meet calls from security experts who say Canada could have the measure in place as soon as this summer when pressed by Eric Sorensen on“We’ve committed to having a very focused conversation around how it is that we want to inform the creation of this foreign registry,” the minister said. “I also want to be sure that we get the threshold right.
The National Security and Intelligence Committee of Parliamentarians and the independent National Security and Intelligence Review Agency have each been ordered to undertake studies into foreign interference. Both NSICOP, which includes MPs from multiple parties and one senator, and NSIRA, which is made up of independent experts tasked with reviewing the actions of Canada’s intelligence agencies, hold their activities behind closed doors in order to review classified material.Mendicino was also tasked Monday with establishing “a counter-foreign interference coordinator” to oversee the work and recommendations coming from various agencies and committees.
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