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Professor, Faculties of Social Sciences & Medicine,
Chair in Science Diplomacy, University of Ottawa.
Research Director, Global Strategy Lab.
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(4) but equally likely is foreign interference by actors not formally linked to the US gov't, but perhaps encouraged/ financed by them, who seek to influence the election.
BTW, surprisingly, the Hogue Commission report had very little to say about the US ... maybe because it was then unthinkable?
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(3) as for what we normally mean by 'foreign interference', which is to say much less public, more covert, by governments ... in this case the US government, who knows, but we should be concerned. This is the core of your question.
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(2) to the extent that Fox is now the equivalent of the state broadcaster for the US ... but is widely watched in Canada ... what Fox says about the election in Canada is influential
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Some quick thoughts: 🧵
1) foreign public influence is already happening to the extent that Musk, Trump and some GOP members of Congress are openly ignoring the norm that 'thou shalt not publicly comment on the internal elections of thy neighbours".
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Honestly, the best response would be for Georgetown Law to explain that diversity, equity, and inclusion are values promoted by Catholic teaching, and they don't appreciate the U.S. attorney demanding they eliminate their religious principles from their curriculum. His head would explode.
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Wow!
This may also go some way to explaining why it is sometimes so hard to teach undergraduate political science. 🙃
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This closure in Toronto is part of a larger debate in several provinces and federally on how to respond to tragically high numbers to deaths due to opioids. What was framed as a complex public health and human crisis is increasingly used as a “wedge” issue to score short term partisan advantage.
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They are already working on it:
"Within 180 days ... a review of all international intergovernmental organizations of which the United States is a member ... to determine which organizations, conventions, and treaties are contrary to the interests of the United States."
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For a shorter version of their argument:
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To help make sense of it all, I recommend Skowronek, et. al. 2021 - see below. An analysis of Trump 1.0 the authors explain the deep historical roots of what we are seeing but conclude,
"The state Trump would have us embrace is every bit as menacing as the state he would have us abandon." 2/2