Procedure and House Affairs committee  There's a lot of online support you can give to a campaign from outside Canada. Even things like media monitoring or monitoring online activity.... That's going to be very difficult to control, because it can be done from a beach in Australia, or anywhere. I mention the beach in

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I couldn't answer that question, to be honest. I really couldn't predict.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Yes. I have two more sentences.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I was going to mention Howe Sound Samaritans' Foundation. They were revoked because they paid the cost of a consultant to provide information to the Chinese government about charitable activities in eastern Europe, particularly Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. This was paid for via

Procedure and House Affairs committee  My concern is that the CRA is not enforcing the law requiring that charities stick to activities that are exclusively charitable. The example I was trying to illustrate was of a Canadian funded via a Canadian charity, who was providing information to the Chinese government about

Procedure and House Affairs committee  That's the big question. I think the answer is, number one, that the CRA is running the charitable sector on an honour system. There just isn't nearly enough auditing. When you have 80,000 charities and only one-tenth of 1% of them are shut down a year, it's just negligible. S

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Thank you very much for the invitation to join your meeting today. My name is Vivian Krause. I am in Vancouver, and I am appearing here as an individual. The reason I am here is that I've had two experiences since 2017 with Elections Canada investigations, and I think that thos

Finance committee  Mr. Chair, do you find that a relevant question?

Finance committee  How can I answer that? I have no political affiliation. I hardly think that tweet was a favour to Peter MacKay, seeing as it just generated a whole ton of negative tweets about him. It was quite an objective question. The reason I asked it was as a follow-up on a poll I did. I'v

Finance committee  On my blog there's a long explanation. You're welcome to read it.

Finance committee  I think what they did was absolutely terrible. I think it was—

Finance committee  Just to sum it up, there's been a long, intensive effort to discredit me. I think that disinviting me to that particular conference was part of that effort. If you want the details, go to my blog. It's all written up.

Finance committee  If you read my letter, you will see the questions I am asking. There are restrictions in their privacy policy that companies respect, but they also say they will release information under certain conditions. They make the data anonymous and consolidate it. I sent my letter a we

Finance committee  For at least six years. That was well before the 2015 election.

Finance committee  If I understood you correctly, you want to know if I have done any research—