His testimony below:
“Thank you, Chair, and members of the committee. It’s an honour to appear before you today.
For nearly 15 years, I have worked to document and expose foreign interference targeting Canada – whether orchestrated from the Kremlin, Beijing, Tehran, or Minsk. Since 2020, much of this work has been carried out through DisinfoWatch, the organization I founded to monitor and counter these threats. In parallel, I have spent just as long advocating for human rights defenders and pro-democracy activists – those struggling for freedom inside authoritarian states and those in exile who continue their work while facing harassment, intimidation, and transnational repression from the regimes they oppose. For that work, I am one of three Canadians named to both the Chinese and Russian sanctions lists – along with my colleagues and friends, Charles Burton and Sarah Teich.
The efforts of foreign authoritarian governments to undermine the integrity of our democracy, pollute our information space with falsehoods, erode social cohesion, and silence critics constitute a direct threat to Canada’s democratic and cognitive sovereignty.
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