I agree with that wholeheartedly. Canada has been seen, over the last decade, as really being a leader in the field of countering foreign interference. On a government-to-government level, a lot of Canadian ideas—policies and measures to facilitate intergovernmental coordination and communication with the public on threats to Canadian elections, for example—are procedures and policies that have been adopted by other governments, including my own, based on the Canadian best practice.
I think that Canada is already perceived as being the right player to facilitate exactly the type of contact Ms. Lau is talking about.
I agree that on a level of civil society to civil society, there's very little, that I'm aware of, facilitating this knowledge sharing, because it's tough to fund, other than some ad hoc work being done through the EU, for example, on a transatlantic basis.
