Officials say foreign agent registry "very close" but still not ready
“We are extremely close to the finish line,” Sébastien Aubertin-Giguere, assistant deputy public safety minister, told the House affairs committee.
Ottawa’s long-promised foreign agents registry is still not live, despite officials again insisting they are “extremely close” to launching it, six months after saying the same thing.
Testifying on Parliament Hill, a senior Public Safety official said the system is in its “very, very last miles,” even as key roles remain unfilled and timelines keep slipping.
As reported by Blacklock’s Reporter, Public Safety Canada in 2024 said the registry would be ready by spring 2025 for that year’s election, noting in a briefing that “establishing a new independent office takes time.”
