That is an excellent question, and probably government officials are better placed to explain how this attention has evolved.
I'm confident in my appraisal that it is minusculely resourced at RRM Canada. The best available figures are that there are between six and eight officials assigned to that unit of Global Affairs. There are also, in addition to the human talent question, the sophisticated technological capacities that you need to be able to sift through an immense universe of social media and other Internet activity to come up with indications of disinformation campaigns.
This is why the general understanding is that no government, no matter how well it might resource a unit like RRM Canada, is able to do that on its own. It has to be able to engage in extensive partnerships with established social media monitoring companies, with established private sector, open-source intelligence organizations. Creating those partnerships is something that, frankly, the Canadian government is very bad at doing.
