Am I the only one not being paid by a foreign government?

The Trudeau government can't believe you're getting all worked up about a little thing like politicians serving hostile countries' interests.

Via @LukeEpplin, who compiled several D-Day themed Peanuts comic strips Charles Schulz drew over the years.

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Yesterday, I wrote about some American “journalists” who are on the Iranian and Russian payroll. Thankfully, here in Canada, we don’t have to worry about commentators and reporters accepting money from foreign, and sometimes explicitly hostile, governments to promote whatever propaganda they want to introduce into the national conversation. Canadian journalists surely have more integrity than that.

Canadian politicians, on the other hand, would sell their own children to the Taliban if the price was right.

Soon after they were elected, some Canadian members of Parliament began "wittingly assisting" foreign state actors, says a report released Monday -- including sending confidential information to Indian officials.

The report from a committee of MPs and senators with top security clearance says Canadian spy agencies produced a body of intelligence showing foreign actors cultivated relationships with both MPs and senators.

Liberal MP David McGuinty, who chairs the National Security and Intelligence Committee of Parliamentarians, said foreign interference is a pervasive national security threat.

It's undermining Canadians' rights and the credibility of democratic processes, he said in an interview Monday.

"We found foreign interference at every order of government, in every political party, in the public sector, the media, the NGO sector, the private sector," he said. "It's there, and it's not stopping."

The committee was asked to assess foreign interference in federal electoral processes, including meddling attempts in the last two elections.

It found Canada's overall response to meddling attempts has been inadequate, and "troubling intelligence" suggests some parliamentarians participated in efforts by other countries to interfere in Canadian politics.

The report cites what it says is a particularly concerning case of an unnamed MP who maintained a relationship with a foreign intelligence officer.

It says the "then-member of Parliament" sought to arrange a meeting with a senior intelligence official in another country and "proactively" gave the intelligence officer information that was provided in confidence.

In Britain, John Profumo was forced to resign because he had an affair with a woman who’d also had an affair with a Soviet agent. Here in Canada, one Member of Parliament apparently cut out the middleman and has so far kept his job.

Unsurprisingly, China and India are the worst offenders, though with this government I wouldn’t be surprised if Luxembourg, Peru and Delaware have slipped past our defenses to get MPs feeding them top-secret intelligence.

Overall, the committee concluded the government still hasn't implemented an effective response to the problem of foreign interference, even though it has done the necessary policy work and gathered the intelligence it needs.

It found that foreign countries "conduct sophisticated and pervasive foreign interference specifically targeting Canada's democratic processes and institutions, occurring before, during and after elections and in all orders of government."

China and India are the "most active perpetrators," the report says.

The Trudeau government is taking these alarming allegations extremely seriously and LOL I’m dead inside