I referenced the fact that two fairly comprehensive reports were put in print in front of the government in 2017 and 2020, with a number of recommendations. These were prepared by Amnesty International, but they were on behalf of the Canadian Coalition for Human Rights in China, which comprises Uighur, Tibetans, Falun Gong and Hong Kong groups. It's a very wide-ranging coalition.
Some of those recommendations were very simple, things that really could have been advanced in a few months. For instance, one of the things that activists find the most frustrating and very disappointing is the response from law enforcement or security agencies when they do seek.... When something has happened, whether it's intimidation, something that's happened by way of online surveillance or even something that has perhaps involved an act of violence; they are frequently sent from one agency to another. The response is that it's not really for the RCMP but for municipal police, or it's not really a policing matter and they should go to CSIS, or that it's not really intelligence, so they should raise it with foreign affairs, and people give up.
A recommendation was made that there is the need for what we called a central clearing house, an office that is going to coordinate the efforts of departments and agencies that all have a piece of this pie, because right now it is scattered and ineffective.