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The Australian Security Intelligence Organisation's detailed public threat assessments could be a model for Canada's spy service on explaining the elements of foreign interference, added Wesley Wark, a senior fellow with the Centre for International Governance Innovation.
The Liberal government has come under pressure in recent weeks to explain what Canada is doing about allegations of Chinese meddling -- spelled out in anonymous leaks to the media from security sources -- in the last two federal elections.
In the normal course of relations, countries will criticize other nations or take decisions that might be damaging, but that is overt behaviour …
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