{"id":798522,"date":"2026-07-13T06:18:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T06:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/798522\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T06:18:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T06:18:08","slug":"new-strong-and-free-elections-act-wont-stop-the-spread-of-disinformation-to-explicitly-undermine-canadas-electoral-system-the-hill-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/798522\/","title":{"rendered":"New Strong and Free Elections Act won&#8217;t stop the spread of disinformation to explicitly undermine Canada&#8217;s electoral system &#8211; The Hill Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In May, Canada&#8217;s Chief Electoral Officer St\u00e9phane Perrault <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ourcommons.ca\/DocumentViewer\/en\/45-1\/PROC\/meeting-33\/evidence\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer nofollow\">told MPs on the Procedure and House Affairs Committee<\/a> that he thought the proposed Bill C-25, the Canada Strong and Free Electi&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>To keep reading, subscribe and become a political insider.<a id=\"subLinkStoryPage\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hilltimes.com\/get-a-subscription\" style=\"float: left; width: 100%; margin-bottom: 20px; font-family: Open Sans, sans-serif !important;\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">SUBSCRIBE NOW<\/a> Only $7.76 a week for an annual subscription. <\/p>\n<p class=\"playfair\" style=\"font-size: 11pt !important; font-weight: 600!important;  margin-top: 20px; float: left; width: 100%;  padding:; margin: 0; color: #252525;\"> Enjoy unlimited website access and the digital newspaper. <\/p>\n<p class=\"playfair\" style=\"font-size: 11pt !important; color: #000; margin: 0; float: left; font-weight: 900 !important; width: 100%;  padding: 10px 0px 0px 0px; margin: 0;\"> Cancel anytime. <\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n        Get Weekend Point of View Newsletter&#13;<br \/>\n        Top Canadian political and policy opinion and analysis. Saturdays and Sundays. Weekends.&#13;\n    <\/p>\n<p>By entering your email address you consent to receive email from The Hill Times containing news, analysis, updates and offers. You may unsubscribe at any time. See our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hilltimes.com\/privacy-policy\" target=\"_blank\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">privacy policy<\/a>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;\n                        <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In May, Canada&#8217;s Chief Electoral Officer St\u00e9phane Perrault told MPs on the Procedure and House Affairs Committee that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":798523,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[267654,49,48,281377,24259,44,281378],"class_list":["post-798522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-bill-c-25","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-canada-strong-and-free-elections-act","tag-elections-canada","tag-news","tag-stephane-perrault"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=798522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798522\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/798523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=798522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=798522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=798522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}