A twisted path brings the Cambridge Analytica scandal home to Canada
It’s the biggest political scandal in the world.
And it involves a bunch of Canadians.
For some time, it’s been known that Vladimir Putin’s Russia and assorted other outlaw states, like North Korea, have been engaged in acts of cyberwar against democracies around the globe. Long before special counsel Robert Mueller was hired to probe Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, in fact, it was widely accepted that hackers had targeted western democracy.
In one extraordinary July 2016 press conference, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump even said: “Russia, if you’re listening, I hope you’re able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing. … They probably have them. I’d like to have them released.”