From the bowels of Canada’s security services emerges a person — we have no idea who — who admits to having leaked intelligence information about foreign meddling in our country’s elections.
For years, this person wrote in the Globe and Mail over the weekend, evidence of outside interference grew. He/she/they tried to get top officials to do something about it. Yet “no serious action was being considered.” Even worse, “evidence of senior public officials ignoring interference was beginning to mount.”
In fact, it took the shock of those leaks to elevate the issue to the top of the public agenda. Finally we’re getting the debate we should have had a couple of elections ago. At long last, it looks like the government will be forced to take strong action.
Now comes the most Canadian part of the story. A good chunk of public opinion, especially elite opinion, seems at least as upset about the actions of the whistleblower as it does about the years and years of increasingly blatant interference.
On social media (and yes, take that for what it’s worth) you’re as likely to see the leaker attacked as someone who broke their oath of secrecy and undermined Canadian democracy, as you are to see them praised for trying to defend that same democracy at serious personal risk.
To take one example: a former senior security official (Artur Wilczynski, ex-DG of the Communications Security Establishment, now at the University of Ottawa), went on CBC News’ “Power & Politics” show to...
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