With Canada facing not one but two possible sovereignty referendums in the coming years, the head of the country’s spy agency is bracing for the possibility that foreign adversaries could try to meddle in them.

“We definitely have to be attentive to the possibility of information operations or interference,” Dan Rogers, director of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS), told CBC’s on Thursday.

Rogers was responding to questions about the prospect of referendums in both Alberta and Quebec on the issue of independence and emerging concerns that foreign adversaries could see them as fertile ground to interfere with a G7 country.

He said CSIS doesn't have a role in "Canadians exercising their opinion" but agreed the manipulation of information could be a vulnerability.

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