We know they're a tool of the Russian government. They work closely with the FSB. They are one and the same in effect, and they do exactly what we have seen; they buy politicians in the EU, and they buy social media influencers. They're way ahead of us in terms of the mechanisms that they use, and we are, in many ways, sitting ducks here, because we have been very comfortable in Canada for a very long time.
We bought into the peace dividend after the Cold War, and now we have to reframe our thinking and build our defences to be more resilient. As I said, that starts in school with our youth, and it will be a generation or two before they are educated, but we have to start that form of education with politicians. We have to clean out the vectors of this disinformation, starting with the Russian embassy, and prevent this garbage from coming into Canada.