“Amid strained India-Canada diplomatic ties, Canadian intelligence report claims India is a ‘foreign interference threat’”, Opindia, February 4, 2024:
“On 31st January, it was revealed that the Canadian Security Intelligence Service’s unclassified document to the Canadian government marked India as a “foreign interference (FI)” threat. As per the report, India “could potentially” meddle with Canadian elections. The report mainly highlighted China’s role in interfering with Canada’s general elections and has around three pages on India. The report was published in February 2023 and has been declassified recently.
The report mentions, “India engages in Foreign Interference activities.” Interestingly, most of the parts of the three pages were redacted. Canadian media house Global News accessed the declassified documents where a single sentence claimed India engaged in FI activities. Furthermore, it talked about the need for “clearly articulated strategies” and pointed out that awareness and briefing of the officials was the most important part of those “strategies.
This is the first time Canada has accused India of meddling with elections. Apart from China, Russia is also being seen as a significant threat to democratic elections in Canada….”
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