In her final report, released Tuesday, Commissioner Marie-Josée Hogue wrote that although she has seen a few cases where a foreign state has attempted to curry favour with parliamentarians, “the phenomenon remains marginal and largely ineffective.”

“While the states’ attempts are troubling and there is some concerning conduct by parliamentarians, there is no cause for widespread alarm,” she wrote.

She added that there is no evidence to suggest that parliamentarians owe their successful elections to foreign entities and she is “not aware of any federal legislation, regulations or policies that have been enacted or repealed on account of foreign interference.”

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    She did note that there are legitimate concerns about some parliamentarians potentially having problematic relationships with foreign officials, exercising poor judgment, behaving naively and perhaps displaying questionable ethics.

    “But I did not see evidence of parliamentarians conspiring with foreign states against Canada,” the report concludes.

    “While some conduct may be concerning, I did not see evidence of ‘traitors’ in Parliament.”

    This is encouraging, but there needs to be a mechanism for these “problematic relationships” to be brought out into the public sphere (without it becoming a witch hunt).