It has been nearly 62 years since Lester Pearson’s Liberals defeated John Diefenbaker’s Progressive Conservatives in the 1963 federal election. Aided by then-U.S. President John F. Kennedy’s administration, the Liberals were accomplices to the most infamous case of foreign interference in the history of Canadian democracy.

Such a blatant conspiracy should have been a permanent wake-up call to the fact that bad actors do, in fact, have great interest in the outcomes of Canadian elections. Unfortunately, those in power have been asleep at the wheel and foreign entities, such as China, continue to manipulate our democracy.