Citizenship and Immigration committee  I don't know.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Members, please take your seats so we can start. For this panel, we have Ms. Fox and Ms. Kingsley with us. We will go directly into the round of questioning. We will start with Mr. Kmiec for six minutes. Mr. Kmiec, please go ahead.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  . Thanks a lot, Minister, for appearing before the committee. He's joined by two senior officials from the department: Christiane Fox, deputy minister, and Michèle Kingsley, assistant deputy minister, operations. Welcome. The minister will be with us for the first hour. The officials

Business of Supply  Madam Speaker, we first called for an independent public inquiry as a result of the allegations of foreign interference in Canadian elections. By “we”, I mean the opposition parties. According to Jean-Pierre Kingsley, former chief electoral officer of Elections Canada, a public

Democratic Institutions   was appointed by the Prime Minister and only reports to the Prime Minister. The Conservative Party, the Bloc Québécois, the NDP, every community that has fallen victim to Chinese interference, former chief electoral officer Jean-Pierre Kingsley, and former Liberals, such as Gerald Butts

Privilege   attempts to interfere in our elections require an independent public inquiry. Former chief electoral officer Jean-Pierre Kingsley has expressed his support for such an inquiry. According to him, Canadians have the right to know everything about what happened, and the lack of a public

Business of Supply  . That idea was supported by the former chief electoral officer, Jean-Pierre Kingsley, and by the former director of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, or CSIS, Richard Fadden. What did Ottawa do? First, they dismissed the idea of an inquiry, saying that that posed a public

Business of Supply   to determine what needs to be done behind closed doors. We in the Bloc Québécois are not alone in calling for an independent public inquiry. Jean‑Pierre Kingsley, a former chief electoral officer for Elections Canada, said in March on Radio‑Canada, “Canadians need to know what happened

Democratic Institutions  Mr. Speaker, Morris Rosenberg, the author of the independent report on foreign interference in the elections, wants an independent public inquiry. Jean-Pierre Kingsley, a former chief electoral officer of Canada, wants an inquiry. Gerald Butts, the former adviser to the Prime

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Thank you, Madam Chair. Hello, Mr. Jean. I would like to know your opinion about what the former Chief Electoral Officer of Canada, Jean-Pierre Kingsley, told Radio-Canada in response to the various leaks about interference. I quote him: Canadians have to know everything

Committees of the House  . Jean-Pierre Kingsley, a former director of Elections Canada, has said that as well. This is very relevant, and I will come back to that in just a moment. Gerald Butts, the former chief of staff to the Prime Minister, has also stated that it is important to have a national public

Business of Supply   necessary. Jean‑Pierre Kingsley, a man for whom I have an enormous amount of respect, also called for a national public inquiry, as the former head of Elections Canada. Artur Wilczynski, a former senior official at the Communications Security Establishment, is calling for an inquiry

Procedure and House Affairs committee   institutions anymore. We know that many people with a lot of experience—Richard Fadden, Jean-Pierre Kingsley, Gerald Butts, Artur Wilczynski and even my leader, Jagmeet Singh—have all asked for a public inquiry. I fundamentally believe that the process needs to be transparent, public

Democratic Institutions  Mr. Speaker, let us talk about the experts. Jean-Pierre Kingsley, the former chief electoral officer, Gerald Butts, a former advisor to the Prime Minister, and even Morris Rosenberg, all agree that there needs to be a public inquiry on the integrity of our elections. We can

Procedure and House Affairs committee   Electoral Officer Jean-Pierre Kingsley also called for a public inquiry into foreign interference by China or Russia. That is significant. I know you can't comment on it, but I feel we're moving towards a public inquiry. In fact, the committee is going to discuss it in a few hours. I