“Transnational repression is commonly used to describe the targeting of individuals by foreign actors. It includes the harassment, surveillance and intimidation of specific people, rather than the targeting of institutions or elections. It refers to the ways authoritarian states reach across borders to stalk, threaten and sometimes assault the dissidents, journalists and diaspora members who have fled their own jurisdictions. The targets live here. The governments pursuing them do not,” write @sherylsap and Sarah Teich in @CDNAffairs. Read here⬇️ macdonaldlaurier.ca/victims-…

“In recent years, and with particular intensity since the October 7 Hamas terrorist attacks in Israel, antisemitism has become increasingly normalized in daily life worldwide. Canada is not immune. Harassment, intimidation, and violence against Jewish Canadians are rising, threatening not only individual safety but also the security and cohesion of entire communities and the country as a whole. Left unchecked, hatred and illegal behaviour erode confidence in the rule of law and weaken Canada’s democratic foundations,” write Peter Copeland (@CopelanPeter), Sheryl Saperia (@sherylsap), and Mark Sandler. Canada has the legal tools to confront these threats — so why isn’t it using them? In “Beyond condemnation: Enforcing Canada’s laws against antisemitism, hate speech,” and support for terrorism, Copeland, Saperia, and Sandler examine how Canada’s existing criminal, immigration, and human rights laws can be employed more effectively to combat antisemitism and protect Jewish Canadians. Read full commentary here⬇️ macdonaldlaurier.ca/beyond-c…

Canada needs to be thankful that we have the @nationalpost. I don’t know how they managed to avoid becoming a propaganda rag like all other legacy media, but it can’t have been easy.

We are excited to announce Sheryl Saperia (@sherylsap) as a senior fellow at MLI! Sheryl is a lawyer by training and a policy strategist with a Master’s in Comparative Politics from the London School of Economics, where she specialized in political violence, terrorism, and radicalization. Read her expert page here⬇️ macdonaldlaurier.ca/cm-exper…

“Canada is also home to one of the world’s largest Iranian diasporas, and that community lives under the long arm of the same security state — surveilled and intimidated on Canadian soil. The work is carried out by the IRGC’s intelligence arm and Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence and Security, often through criminal proxies; CSIS has confirmed credible death threats here — former federal justice minister Irwin Cotler was the target of an Iranian assassination plot — and scholars who track transnational repression warn it is intensifying against Iranian-Canadians. For these Canadians, ‘Ghalibaf the reasonable’ is no abstraction. He is the man who wrote the threatening letter, swung the stick, and ordered the volley,” writes Avideh Motmaen-Far for MLI Inside Policy. Read here⬇️ macdonaldlaurier.ca/washingt…

Today, at the 41st Air India 182 Memorial, we honoured the 329 innocent people murdered, including 268 Canadians. They were mothers and fathers, sons and daughters, neighbours and friends. We honour them by refusing euphemism and calling out the perpetrators and terror groups that still threaten innocent people at home and abroad. Their memory endures. So does Canada.