My goodness, this woman is a dim-witted waste of space

Editor's Commentary:
Outside of US Secretary Mike Pompeo, it's hard to think of another foreign minister with quite the vacant head of Chrystia Freeland. So let's just get a few things straight about the article that follows:

Freeland is an idiot.
Freeland says she's worried about Russian interference in Canada's upcoming election - laying the groundwork, of course, for explaining why her sorry ass is not going to get re-elected.
Freeland says "there have probably already been efforts by malign foreign actors to disrupt our democracy" - no evidence, no proof, just a gut feeling, I guess.
Freeland implies that if anyone interferes in Canada's election it is going to be Russia - as if Russia gives a damn about Canada's election. The only effort to "disrupt our democracy" is being perpetrated by the government of Canada.
Freeland is an idiot - I know I already said that, but I want to emphasize the point.

So, in a nutshell, there may or may not be some foreign actor who is even aware that Canada will be having an election and it may or may not be Russia and they may or may not want to interfere in said election and, if they do, we may or may not catch them at it.

Just so we're clear on all of that, we now return you to the enlightening article below.

- prh, ed.

Chrystia Freeland Says Foreign Interference In Federal Election 'Very Likely'

Well, then.

Canada's foreign minister said on Friday it was likely that foreign actors would meddle in her country's October elections and her British counterpart said a deterrent to stop countries like Russia from interfering was critical.

U.S. intelligence officials and the governments of some European Union countries have accused Russia of interfering in their elections in recent years, allegations strongly denied by Moscow.

When asked whether she was worried Russia would interfere in the election, Chrystia Freeland said she was "very concerned".

STEPHANE MAHE / REUTERS Britain's Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt, Canada's Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland and human rights lawyer Amal Clooney attend a news conference on media freedom as part of the G7 Foreign Ministers' meeting in Dinard, France, April 5, 2019. REUTERS/Stephane Mahe

"Our judgment is that interference is very likely and we think there have probably already been efforts by malign foreign actors to disrupt our democracy," she said, speaking at a media freedom event on the sidelines of a G7 foreign ministers meeting in France.

Freeland said such attempts were not aimed at securing a particular outcome in a national elections, but to polarize Western societies.

The foreign ministers of the G7 nations - United States, France, Japan, Germany, Britain, Italy and Canada as well as the European Union are meeting in Dinard, Brittany, where they are expected later to agree on common norms that would seek to prevent foreign powers from destabilizing democratic nations.

British Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt said it was imperative for liberal democracies to tackle interference by Russia and others.

"We know that states like Russia have got a very active, planned, thought-through strategy to interfere in democratic processes in Western countries and (to sow) dissension and chaos wherever they can," Hunt said.

"We are getting much better at fending off these attacks when they happen. What we don't do at the moment is deter them from happening in the first place."

He said the discussions at the G7 on Friday would be aimed at finding a deterrence strategy that imposed a high price for meddling with democratic processes.

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