I think one of the members previously mentioned that Canadians don't really understand foreign state actors and don't really know who they are. This is why we need a transparency scheme: to point out who they are, to point out these organizations who are receiving funding from state actors. After knowing that information, Canadians can make informed decisions. This means municipal actors, school boards and federal MPs like yourselves. During an election campaign, you don't know who's coming to volunteer, but having that public access to a list will help you identify the foreign actors. This could be expanded to, say, making a registry, a list, of known human rights abusers, of military actors, and encouraging the innovation in Canada to not collaborate with these actors. But we need public information in order to take real action.
On May 31st, 2021. See this statement in context.