Mr. Chairman and members of the committee, thank you for the opportunity to testify before you today. It is reassuring to see how seriously the public safety and national security committee is taking the threat that Russian disinformation and influence operations are posing to Canada and Canadians and to our democracy and society.
The points I am making today are my own and do not represent the position of any organization.
My research focuses on the weaponization of information by authoritarian regimes. I research how Russia, China and Iran target democracies with hybrid grey-zone warfare and disinformation to undermine rules-based democratic countries like Canada. I look specifically at how AI-enabled applications are affecting information attacks on democracies and what we can do to defend democracies against information attacks and other attempts to influence and undermine our societies.
Today I will focus specifically on what the Kremlin is doing when it's targeting Canada, why and how it's targeting Canada, and what I recommend we can do about this.
What is Russia doing? Russia is deliberately and systematically targeting Canada and its allies 24-7 in—