Elections Canada CEO Stéphane Perrault says there was a higher volume of disinformation and misinformation in the 2025 federal election compared to previous years.
Perrault made the comments on Sept. 15 while presenting Elections Canada’s post-election report on the 45th general election.
“What we saw in this election was just more volume across more channels,” Perrault said in Ottawa when asked by reporters about instances of misinformation and disinformation during the April 28, 2025, election.
Perrault said he did not have information about new trends compared to previous elections, but that it was “widespread across many different channels.” Perrault also said that he witnessed “familiar themes” of misinformation playing out during the election, such as that pencils were being given to voters as a way to supposedly later erase their votes, or that non-citizens were being allowed to vote. …