To some extent, you can only snort in contempt at calling this level of interaction to be "meddling", the same as Russian disinfo "meddling" in our elections. It strikes me as laughably minor compared to the influence that Chinese business have by just threatening to give contracts or purchases to another supplier - I'm sure such threats make our businessmen pick up the phone to call the MP they fund.

For "disinformation", isn't is "foreign disinformation" for America's Exxon, Royal Dutch Shell, and British Petroleum, to pump out disinformation about climate concerns they already knew were real? For forty years?? It's perfectly legal for Canadian and American corporate properties of foreigners to "meddle" in our elections, always has been; but the influence is still foreign.

Would western countries have shipped all their manufacturing overseas if they loved their own constituents as much as they loved the money to be made for our 1%, by offshoring? That's your real foreign influence.

Unlike so many problems presented to me in the news, which are mostly getting worse every day, China's "influence" on Canada could hardly be less than it is now: we're suspicious and angry at them.