Susan Delacourt: ‘Freedom Convoy’ protests had MélanieJoly and other foreign ministers all worried about the same thing
Most of the world’s eyes were focused on Ukraine last February when the convoy protests were disrupting life in Canada.Joly says she was fielding questions from her international counterparts about what the heck was going on in this country.
None of them have ruled out the prospect that foreign states, such as Russia, are feeding those campaigns. Joly was talking to a Microsoft executive this year who shared some findings with her on the tech giant’s research into sources of disinformation. The research showed that Russia was churning out two different messages about COVID-19 vaccines — telling domestic audiences they were safe, but telling foreign audiences they were dangerous. on how the Ukraine crisis was playing out as a cyberwar.
Joly, in a year-end interview with me in her Ottawa office, said findings like this have made foreign affairs ministers the world over even more determined to tackle disinformation, especially when it comes from governments of countries such as Russia — or China, for that matter. It’s going to be one of the issues all governments are going to have to tackle, she said, because disruptions to world order are happening on the literal battlefield in Ukraine, but also in the virtual battlefield all over. “The rules of the game need to be established, because this is not how democracy works, and this is not how social cohesion can be maintained,” she said.
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