Report author Marcus Kolga says there are alternatives to “lecturing countries from afar,” and they include sanctions, visa bans, asset freezes and immigration inadmissibility tools against foreign officials, security-service officers, prosecutors, judges, propagandists and regime-linked collaborators. Canada should impose costs on perpetrator states and their enablers, and perhaps most importantly, Ottawa needs to establish a direct and effective co-ordination mechanism among and between intelligence and law-enforcement agencies to deal with transnational repression.
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