There have been clear instances in which provincial parliamentarians in Ontario fell victim to foreign information operations during the pandemic. There was an Ontario MPP who supported anti-vaccination and anti-lockdown views, which is perfectly normal in Canada, but the Russian government, the Russian state media, recognized this and asked him onto RT. He went onto RT, which helped to provide a global platform for his views. After he gave an interview on RT, he tweeted out to all of his followers that they should not be following mainstream media but should follow RT because Russian state media were the only trustworthy ones out there—
On February 14th, 2023. See this statement in context.