Foreign Interference Inquiry Will Offer Ways for Public Fearing Reprisals to Provide Testimony, Evidence in Confidence

The commission says it will create a process that enables the public to request their identity and certain information they provide be protected.

The Confederation Building is pictured through a window on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Nov. 7, 2023. The Canadian Press/Sean Kilpatrick

Canada’s inquiry into foreign interference says it will put in place in the next few months measures allowing those who fear reprisals from participating in the process to ask that their identity and other information be protected.

In a Jan. 4 “Notice to the Public,” the federal Foreign Interference Commission said, “The Commission understands that some individuals may fear reprisals if they testify or provide information to the Commission.”