Subhead:Bill C-70 requires those lobbying public office holders under foreign influence to register, with penalties of up to five years imprisonment or a hefty $5 million fine.#
Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre questioned the delay in implementing a public registry of foreign agents, approved 10 months ago. The Department of Public Safety has not provided an update in months, reported Blacklock’s.
Public Safety Canada is responsible for creating a searchable online registry of individuals acting on behalf of foreign countries, corporations or lobby groups.
“They haven’t set that up even though it was passed into law by Parliament,” claimed Poilievre. An associate minister said last December that it would become available by June.
