Organization: Elections Canada
Year: 2023
Month: September
Request Number: A-2023-00008
Request Summary: Subject to planning for the next election, including party and candidate practices, cyber and third-party threats and influences and foreign intrusions. Provide from January 1, 2022, to present: briefings, meeting minutes, reports and memos sent or developed by working groups to include those on fake news, election financing, disinformation and social media. Provide from January 1, 2022, to present: briefings and reports from CSIS on potential election interference, as well as those from CSEC on cyber threats or other threats to the election process and how best to deal with them. This includes the use of electronic pooling registration and voting in the future. Provide from January 1, 2022, to present: briefings, meeting minutes and reports from the Cyber Security Panel (a federal-provincial/territorial election officials' subcommittee). Provide from January 1, 2022, to present: briefings, plans and reports on encouraging political parties to have and follow privacy protection. Include Elections Canada’s monitoring of those plans; as well as exchanges with political parties on their privacy protection plans and practices.
Disposition: Disclosed in part
Number of pages: 25