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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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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<p> Laurel Russwurm</p>
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<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>
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<p>Regards,<br>
Laurel<br>
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