Canada / 24.05.2022 22:42:04
The growth of far-right groups in the United States poses a serious risk to the survival of the democratic system in Canada, according to a report presented this Tuesday and prepared by Canadian intelligence experts.
The report was written by the University of Ottawa Task Force on National Security, made up of former directors of the Canadian secret service, retired diplomats, academics and former ministers who have held important positions in the Canadian public administration.
The group warned of the risk for Canada of a possible victory in the 2024 presidential elections of Donald Trump or some other Republican politician with a similar ideology.
“The growing trade protectionism of the United States also poses a serious threat to the Canadian economy,” said the experts, concluding that the United States is and will be Canada’s main ally, but “It could also become a source of threat and instability.”
Furthermore, the authors linked the protests that rocked Canada earlier in the year, and that culminated in the occupation of Ottawa and the blockade of border points by truck drivers, with the political climate in the United States as well as with extreme right-wing groups from both countries.
The report notes that while the support that conservative American politicians and media outlets, such as Fox News, provided for the protests was not foreign interference in the conventional sense, it did “a greater threat to Canadian democracy than the actions of any state.”
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