Thanks, Chair. I appreciate it.
Thank you to both of the witnesses for being here. It's overwhelming, isn't it? One hardly even knows where to start with questions.
Cherie, I'm struck by your repeated point, and, Kyle, by yours too, that this state infiltration by China's communist regime is not new and has been going on since the 1990s—the intimidation and and threatening of people in China and around the world. It must feel like authorities and governments don't grasp the seriousness of this when, as individuals, you're sent between the variety of law enforcement agencies and different offices and offered a tip line. You see events like in the U.S. where they've made arrests under Operation Fox Hunt, and our government says that it needs to do more, but it's hard to identify if those things are happening.
Cherie, can I ask you a question about the discussion of all of this? Like others have said here, I think this is really new to a lot of Canadians—and shamefully, maybe for all of us—but I think it's really our obligation as members of Parliament to be asking hard questions about this and getting to solutions like you have proposed.
Do you have any comments about what could be the conflation of legitimate questions about the safety and security of individuals and national security threats posed by the communist regime with anti-Asian racism? Do you have any views on what that does to the conversation or to efforts to try to get at the facts and to solutions?