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https://policyoptions.irpp.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Have-we-overestimated-international-disinformation.jpg2000700With the Canadian federal election scheduled to take place by this October, many concerns abound as to how foreign actors might influence how voters behave. During his controversial testimony in the SNC-Lavalin affair, former Clerk of the Privy Council Michael Wernick declared that he was “[worried] about foreign interference in the upcoming election.” More recently, […]