India has intent, capability to interfere in Canada elections: Canada’s claim

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1. SS: While China is perceived as the principal threat of potential interference in the federal election in Canada, Ottawa is also monitoring potential influence operations by other countries, including India.

   As the campaign for the federal election on April 28 got underway on Sunday, the Security and Intelligence Threats to Elections (SITE) Task Force is actively monitoring possible interference activity.

   During a briefing on Monday, the task force’s chair, Vanessa Lloyd, also Deputy Director of Operations at the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS), said, “The PRC (People’s Republic of China) is highly likely to use AI-enabled tools to attempt to interfere with Canada’s democratic process in this current election,” according to media reports.

   She also cited India as a potential threat, saying, “We have also seen that the government of India has the intent and capability to interfere in Canadian communities and democratic processes.”

   In January, the final report of a foreign interference inquiry alleged that India was the “second most active country engaging in electoral foreign interference in Canada.” Only China, the report stated, has a greater impact on the country’s democratic processes.

   It stated that Canada and India have worked together for decades, but there were “challenges in the relationship.” Many of these, it said, were longstanding and inform India’s foreign interference activities. “India perceives Canada as not taking India’s national security concerns about Khalistani separatism (the goal of an independent Sikh homeland in northern India called ‘Khalistan’) sufficiently seriously.”

2. I still can’t comprehend how or why India and Canada have this huge beef, it feels weird

3. I guess India can join the queue after the US, Russia and the PRC.

4. Just a few days ago, I saw an article which said Canada wanted to fix relations with India, yet now this. Looks like relations will not be feasible after all.

5. India struggles to influence Nepal, Bangladesh and Maldives and they think we have capabilities to influence their elections on the other side of the world. Just a boogeyman.

6. So when Canadian news agencies release random documentaries on Modi right before the national elections with a clear *malafide*, that’s not election interference? When Trudeau puts videos “supporting” farmer riots in India, that’s not election interference? Khalistanis’ violent threats to Indian diplomats in Canada are all Kosher but if India were to do even half of what Canada does, that’d be deemed as “election interference” or “external aggression.”

7. Canada is probably the only country which has currently bad relation with US, China and India altogether at once!

8. China and US are openly doing election interference in Canada. They should worry about these nations instead of talking about probably and maybe regarding India.

9. If election interference continues across the a West, then democracy may no longer be lead by the people and would need to end.

10. They should be worried more about Trump and Elon interfering their elections.

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