I would say the United Front organizations started to be established under the help and the guidance of the Chinese embassy beginning in the 1990s. Then, I think up to the year 2000, when they had developed a good enough number of United Front organizations—and also with the growing, critical mass of mainland Chinese Canadians in Canada—they started to become more and more aggressive in infiltrating the elections of the three levels of government.
There's a gradual evolution of the magnitude of infiltration and manipulation. It's the same with the intimidation and harassment.
I think now we have already reached a point that our democracy is actually being jeopardized and compromised. If our government doesn't take immediate action and take this matter seriously, it's very dangerous, because it will also ruin our relationship of trust with our democratic allies.
Remember, we are part of the Five Eyes allies. We are also very close partners with the U.S. If our country has become compromised—