The Chinese language media have been playing a very important role in exerting influence over voters in our Canadian society. As I mentioned before, because of the language barrier, Chinese Canadian voters get their source of information mainly from the Chinese language media. However, the majority, I would say, of the free community newspapers are under either the direct or indirect control of the CCP, because I understand that they get funding from the Chinese embassy. Sometimes we would call that the “social stability maintenance fee”. They use it to control the narrative, the message, being sent out through these media.
The other is WeChat and social media platforms. I think it's about time for our government to not just pass a foreign influence registry but also to consider other measures to be taken to combat influence in other aspects, including the media, which is a very, very seriously infiltrated sector.