The Canadian Press: Boegman said foreign influence is a “normal part of international relations” and it’s legitimate when conducted transparently under the law.
His office will not deal with more covert and nefarious efforts by foreign actors to interfere with domestic politics and will leave those matters to the intelligence and national security agencies.
“Our office doesn’t deal with other risks to Canada, such as transnational repression, covert attacks, cyberattacks, these sorts of things. They may be part of foreign interference, but the responsibility for those types of activities (rests with) all the other national security, intelligence or law enforcement agencies in Canada.”…