We need strong advocacy for dissidents who are facing these difficult situations. I can speak from experience: the individuals who are facing these threats have never felt more alone. We have nowhere to go. We are talking to you today, but tomorrow we would be talking to the RCMP and asking and begging for help and be denied it.
We need a federal strategy on foreign influence, because harassment is only one corner of this massive iceberg. It's a threat that you face at work: being overlooked for a promotion because you didn't go to this pro-Asian protest. It's death threats that are overlooked and deemed irrelevant.
The community is hurting, and I just hope the government might look at the recommendations that not just I myself and my organization are putting forward but also the various witnesses who came before you who survive this violence. We need your support and we need it now. We can't any longer wait until someone really gets hurt.