The recent U.S. indictment of two Russian state media operatives for funding a $10-million disinformation and influence operation targeting Canada and the United States, involving Canadian actors, exposes Canada’s glaring vulnerability to Russia’s insidious and sophisticated interference campaigns.

However, this indictment is merely the tip of a much larger iceberg, revealing only a fraction of Russia’s relentless information and influence operations that exploit our freedoms in its attempt to erode our democratic institutions from within.