Okay, after a crazy day I'm going to start reading the Report from the Public Inquiry on Foreign Interference. (Don't say I don't know how to have a good time.) This is a Canada-ish thread so maybe you want to mute it. But I'll be posting some takeaways as we go. Weeee! - ThreadSky

stephaniecarvin.bsky.social • 32 days ago

Okay, after a crazy day I'm going to start reading the Report from the Public Inquiry on Foreign Interference. (Don't say I don't know how to have a good time.) This is a Canada-ish thread so maybe you want to mute it. But I'll be posting some takeaways as we go. Weeee!

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tumblesticks.bsky.social•32 days ago

📌

lrinto.bsky.social•32 days ago

@rachelgilmore.bsky.social did a great quickie video that covered the bases

pj47596176.bsky.social•32 days ago

Ahhhh yeah!

trishpaton.bsky.social•32 days ago

Thanks for the overview & the read through. The exciting life of the academy!

stephaniecarvin.bsky.social•32 days ago

(My first take away is that 800+ pages is crazy and we need to find ways to have our 800+ page reports, but also do better communicating these threats to people who are getting their information on social media.)

stephaniecarvin.bsky.social•32 days ago

For those of you who have no idea what I'm talking about, here is the summary

stephaniecarvin.bsky.social•32 days ago

So here are three immediate takeaways:
1) Institutions are robust
2) No "traitors"*
3) Parliamentarians speak on their convictions, not based out of fear from foreign states/actors.

stephaniecarvin.bsky.social•32 days ago

This answers questions raised in the June 2024 NSICOP report about whether there are MPs, "wittingly and unwittingly" engaging in FI.

One thing I will note here is that "treason" is a really high threshold and the legal definitions outdated. Not surprised that this was the finding

stephaniecarvin.bsky.social•32 days ago

Okay, great. No treason (this is a low threshold but generally a good thing.) But all is not well. The intelligence-policy nexus in Canada is weak and needs improvement.

stephaniecarvin.bsky.social•32 days ago

Justice Hogue concludes her introduction by saying that it is good that officials want to be more transparent with Canadians around natsec/FI issues, but so far the efforts have been "piecemeal and underwhelming" (aka: kinda crap).

schlonnaschlouisee.bsky.social•32 days ago

I’m sure. And probably difficult to prove. Fuck bitcoin by the way.

schlonnaschlouisee.bsky.social•32 days ago

Wait, who is “I.” Sorry. I need a back up. I apologize. I’m American too.

lalegault.bsky.social•32 days ago

What.

https://www.baaznews.org/p/cpc-leadership-race-indian-foreign-interference?r=f2ijt&utm_medium=email

schlonnaschlouisee.bsky.social•32 days ago

An 800 page report could have been edited to be at least 600 pages and more user friendly. FFS.

thatproviso.bsky.social•32 days ago

Perhaps trenchant here to note deepseek's ties to ccp data gathering.
(Was anticipating someone suggesting AI reading the 800.)

scottlapstra.bsky.social•32 days ago

Yes. Here's 800 pages and nothing to see here is frustrating

grahams55.bsky.social•32 days ago

https://bsky.app/profile/lalegault.bsky.social/post/3lgu6vh3slk2e

wikisteff.bsky.social•32 days ago

My hard drive has the full report, waiting for me to have a chance to look into it.

saeedwkhan.bsky.social•32 days ago

Is this report available to the public?

stephaniecarvin.bsky.social•32 days ago

Yep! https://foreigninterferencecommission.ca/fileadmin/report_volume_1.pdf

schlonnaschlouisee.bsky.social•32 days ago

Wait, when did it come out? There was a date and then it didn’t happen?

trishpaton.bsky.social•32 days ago

It came out today, as was announced earlier this week and I think (?) at the end of last week.

schlonnaschlouisee.bsky.social•32 days ago

Yeah, I was expecting it Friday I think but heard nothing about it.

trishpaton.bsky.social•32 days ago

It may have been announced Friday that it was coming out this week? That sounds familiar.

schlonnaschlouisee.bsky.social•32 days ago

Friday sounds like last month right now.

trishpaton.bsky.social•32 days ago

What did I read elsewhere here? January has been several thousand days long already? (That’s nowhere near an accurate paraphrase of the text, but it does hit the important part of the feelings)