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Canada Still Has No Foreign Influence Registry, and Your Will Gets Messier When You Move Abroad.
News for residents of the “11th province”: Canadians abroad.
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Canada Still Has No Foreign Influence Registry
Canada has spent six months with draft rules for a foreign influence registry and still hasn’t been able to put one together. Global News says diaspora and civil-society groups are pushing PM Mark Carney to finish the job and set Anton Boegman up as the first commissioner.
The registry came out of the Foreign Influence Transparency and Accountability Act, which was introduced in 2024 after years of warnings about foreign interference in Canadian politics. The idea is simple- if someone is working in Canada on behalf of another government, Canadians should be able to see whose interests are being pushed.
That matters beyond Canada’s borders because transnational pressure doesn’t stop at the airport. Public Safety Canada has said affected communities should be part of the design, and Global says China and India keep showing up in Canada’s national-security warnings. For Canadians tied to those communities abroad, the work in progress is more than abstract paperwork.
Read more: Global News / Public Safety Canada
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A Will Gets Messier Abroad
MoneySense has a useful reminder for anyone who has been treating their will like “basement paperwork.” A will mostly answers three questions. Who handles the estate, who gets the assets, and who looks after children or pets after you’re gone.
The wrinkle for expats is in the maintenance section, which is where boring trouble likes to hide. MoneySense says wills should be reviewed every three to five years and after major life changes, including moving out of province or country. If your accounts are in Canada, your home is somewhere else, and your executor has to make sense of both… plan ahead.
The article also points out that registered accounts, life insurance, joint bank accounts, and jointly owned homes might possibly pass outside the will through named beneficiaries or ownership rules. In other words, the document matters, but the whole setup matters more. Once again… best to plan ahead
Read more: MoneySense