Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Mr. Fadden, thank you for being with us today. If I am not mistaken, this is now the second time you have appeared before the Special Committee on the Canada—People's Republic of China Relationship.
I have noted two things in your testimony and your answers to date. First, you talked about culture change, which may not have taken place as quickly as might have been wished. Second is the timeline, the point when the threat became perceptible and when the security mechanisms should have been changed and a change made to the culture within the organization. On that point, there are several items on the timeline that are interesting.
In an article published in Le Journal de Montréal in January, we learned that CSIS, the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, had published a report in 2010 explaining China's growing economic power, its growing confidence and its aggressive new agent recruitment policy, which suggest that it has the will and resources to enhance its intelligence activities more and more. So CSIS had been sounding the alarm since 2010.
When the minister appeared before this committee, he told us that until 2018 it was thought to be important to collaborate in the realm of science, but that the world had changed considerably since then. Mr. Fadden, do you think that the world changed in 2018, or should that change have been perceived before 2018?