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    <p><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.therecord.com/news-story/9270160-freeland-says-foreign-election-meddling-in-october-federal-vote-is-likely/">https://www.therecord.com/news-story/9270160-freeland-says-foreign-election-meddling-in-october-federal-vote-is-likely/</a></p>
    <p>I was pretty horrified when I read the above referenced article,
      so wrote the following letter in response to it:<br>
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    <blockquote>
      <p><b>Canadian government needs no help undermining our democracy</b></p>
      <p>In the Record article, "<a
href="https://www.therecord.com/news-story/9270160-freeland-says-foreign-election-meddling-in-october-federal-vote-is-likely/">Freeland
          says foreign election meddling in October federal vote is
          likely</a>," Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland claims
        concerns about increasing political polarization in Canadian
        society.  But blaming ambiguous "malign foreign actors" for
        Canadian voter cynicism is self-serving nonsense.  Perhaps Ms
        Freeland should confer with Ms Gould before publicly undermining
        our Democratic Institutions. <br>
      </p>
      <p>Ms Freeland need look no further than her own government's
        actions: first, repeatedly promising Canadians Electoral Reform
        and then sabotaging its own reform process when the Electoral
        Reform Committee recommendation was an answer the Prime Minister
        didn't like.  Canada's epidemic of voter cynicism arises from a
        voting system where some votes are worth more than others. 
        Implementation of any form of Proportional Representation is the
        cure.<br>
         <br>
        Because Canadian Governments sensibly refrained from adopting
        online voting, we can be confident our paper ballot technology
        is immune to digital hacking.  <br>
      </p>
      <p>Which makes Ms Freeland's <i>critical election protocol</i>
        the solution to a nonexistent problem.  A protocol allowing
        senior public servants to publicly fearmonger about "malign acts
        of interference" during an election sounds like a plan to allow
        the outgoing Canadian Government destabilize the election if
        they think they're losing.  Bad idea.<br>
      </p>
      <p> Laurel Russwurm</p>
    </blockquote>
    <p>Although I think my letter goes beyond the FVC purview, it does
      talk about Proportional Representation, so I thought I'd share it
      here as they called to confirm I'd written it.  Also, since I
      don't subscribe, I might miss it if it's printed, so I'd love to
      hear from anyone if it is.  Thanks!<br>
    </p>
    <p>Regards,<br>
      Laurel<br>
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