boof joined in and replied with this 1 year ago, 1 hour later[^][v]#1,302,410
governments of the world have been getting their nose in the business of other governments of the world maybe for as long as countries have been around. a lot is done willingly and in the open with lobbying, hiring people from political parties of other countries as advisors, and through international organizations -- but we aren't supposed to think that is bad interference.
Anonymous A (OP) replied with this 1 year ago, 29 minutes later, 2 hours after the original post[^][v]#1,302,414
@previous (boof)
Lobbying is normal, and registered foreign agents making their case is standard too.
Canada just had a national security committee reveal that MPs working for foreign governments were meddling in democratic elections. Parliament received the unredacted report, but won't name names.
boof replied with this 1 year ago, 2 hours later, 4 hours after the original post[^][v]#1,302,425
@previous (A)
"Lobbying is normal, and registered foreign agents making their case is standard too."
and that's a big problem. we don't seem to even give a shit. it's part of the corruption as standard operating procedure that it is not even discussed and remedied the way it should be.
as for the allegations, it should be forwarded to law enforcement forthwith if it hasn't already. there's no advantage to just putting out names if part of what is going on is a scheme to tar people -- allegations can be the result of bad actors wishing to make mischief, and must be thoroughly investigated by law enforcement. nothing good is gained by being played by bad actors like a fiddle. if there's something to prosecute, than do it, sure.
Anonymous A (OP) replied with this 1 year ago, 10 minutes later, 4 hours after the original post[^][v]#1,302,427
@previous (boof)
Parliament isn't going to pass it off to law enforcement when parliament is the subject of the allegations, that's the problem.
Law enforcement is also in no position to demand MPs hand over documents or give access to incriminating information. Most countries designed their systems to make that difficult because it would be too easy for the executive to seize power.
There's every reason to believe now that India has bought MPs and nothing will be done about it. It took a public assassination to even start the investigation, and this would all still be a secret otherwise.
This could absolutely be happening in other countries, why would they restrict themselves to canada
boof replied with this 1 year ago, 21 minutes later, 5 hours after the original post[^][v]#1,302,428
@previous (A)
well of course they wouldn't restrict themselves to one country
that you know of anything like this happening in a specific country is actually some good news for that country -- there's some responsible interest in finding this sort of thing is going on and making it public in any degree at all. that's not a given in many places, I imagine
as for "parliament isn't going to pass it off..." I don't know the ins and outs of separation of powers with judiciary versus legislative versus executive for Canada, but that's pretty standard in democracies to have some independence among those branches, so I would think federal agencies work on this sort of thing all the time and probably who informed the government committee in the first place. no one is supposed to be so above the law that a government has to tell law enforcement when and when not to enforce.