In September 2025, Chris Alexander—formerly Stephen Harper’s immigration minister ...

For many Canadians that last part would be enough to throw suspicion on the veracity of the 'documents'.

This is wild. I mean, it's cool that a random guy did all that journalistic legwork on investigating this, but it's very concerning that this took place and that it required some random guy to do the legwork to investigate it. This is really not okay.

This is a fascinating and thrilling interview. Thanks for posting!

It has emerged that the charge against Canadian military intelligence officer Matthew Lobar for allegedly leaking secrets to Ukraine grew out of a 2023 investigation into claims that Pugliese was a Russian spy—claims based on the very dossier Bianchin has debunked.

The one where the investigated person claims they were ordered to do so, and had previously blown the whistle against superiors on an unrelated issue?

I feel like we're watching a spy thriller from the outside.

Where in Italy are you from?

Venice.

A place that's way more famous than actually populated, so also sus. I would hope The Walrus cross-referenced several very identifiable details that are in this story, like education and employment, but they didn't actually say they did.