You know, I've spoken to Canadians of Uighur origin. I can recall hearing from a woman who is no longer able to communicate with her children in China. I know other people who have had to say goodbye to their parents because any communication will incriminate the parents, will cause them to be incarcerated or maybe make their conditions even worse than they are.
There are a number of things we can and should be doing. I talked about intimidation by proxy groups, whereby the Government of China activates groups in the diaspora; it activates student groups. We've seen troubling incidents both at McMaster University in Hamilton and at the University of Toronto's Scarborough campus. It activates them to attempt to intimidate people from those communities. In one case it was to suppress a Uighur speaker in Hamilton. In another it was to intimidate a woman of Tibetan origin who had become the president of the student council at Scarborough.
That would come under the transparency scheme. If you're acting on behalf of a foreign actor, that must be disclosed. The government would have investigative powers, and there would be criminal sanctions for organizations or people who violated that, who failed to be transparent. It would give us a handle on this kind of intimidation by proxy.