Thank you, Mr. Chair.
The title of the secretariat's core responsibility was changed in the 2021-22 departmental plans from “assists the National Security and Intelligence Committee of Parliamentarians in fulfilling its...mandate” to “Parliamentary review of national security and intelligence activities”.
Whoever is responsible for this change needs to undo this change. The secretariat and NSICOP are not engaged in a parliamentary review. We on this committee and in the other standing committees of the House of Commons and in the joint committees of the Senate and the House and the committees of the Senate engage in parliamentary review. NSICOP is not a parliamentary committee. It's right in subsection 4(3) of the act. I would like the Government of Canada to ensure that the wording is changed as soon as possible in order to ensure that the information is accurate and consistent with the act.
I will move on to a quick question concerning the Winnipeg lab.
Global Affairs is involved with the granting of visas to those citizens who are arriving in Canada from countries that require visas. A scientist from the People's Liberation Army Academy of Military Medical Sciences, Feihu Yan, worked for a period of time at the Public Health Agency of Canada's National Microbiology Laboratory. When and under what circumstances did GAC issue a visa to Feihu Yan?