However, the inquiry found no evidence of traitors in Canada’s Parliament plotting with foreign governments to interfere with elections. Hogue did express “legitimate concerns about parliamentarians potentially having problematic relationships with foreign officials, exercising poor judgment, behaving naively and perhaps displaying questionable ethics.” Tell us something we don’t know! Hogue found it wasn’t spies that were the problem. In her report, she said that “information manipulation” posed the biggest single threat to our democracy. In other words, fake news. Maybe Trump had a point after all.

There were some things to be worried about, however. She found that China “clandestinely leveraged” Canadian officials to help its “favoured” candidates win office in 2019. India, she learned, was the “second-most active country engaging in electoral foreign interference in Canada.” But, in my opinion, the people that Canadians should be most worried about meddling in our affairs are Canadians. You don’t need to search the dark corners of the Parliament Buildings for double agents. You don’t need to bug the Chinese embassy to find evidence of someone who is betraying their country. All you must do is turn on the TV or scroll through your social media feed. They’re right there, plain as day.