CBC article where they outline the exact type of foreign interference concerns we outlined in this thread. Social media campaigning, operative recruiting of disillusioned/impoverished youth. Here’s a quote outlining the need to limit push-back by removing non-Trump aligned bureaucrats.
Elcock said U.S. agencies would have to worry about their own people talking.
“There is a long relationship between Canada and the United States and there will still be people around who would not necessarily approve. So I don’t think they could with any certainty carry out something like that — that wasn’t a very, very closely held operation,” he said.
But those calculations could change if the Trump administration continues to remove and replace personnel in the agencies down to the managerial and operational level.
“The more you get people who buy into the current U.S. president’s philosophy of life,” said Fadden, “the more he shifts professionals out of the intelligence community and puts his own people in, the more worrisome it becomes.”
The fascist’s playbook through and through. Worth a read.