Thank you very much.
Our security services and our police services know very well what is going on. There needs to be some political encouragement for them to deal with what they know.
As we already know, CSIS has gone around to Canadian universities and colleges and warned them about the Confucius Institutes that many had installed in their universities, which were paid for by Beijing. CSIS warned them that these were nothing much more than espionage outposts in their universities, with two main functions. One was to oversee Chinese students in the universities and the other was to scout the universities for useful technologies—principally military technologies.
Thankfully, most Canadian universities and colleges have ended their agreements with the Confucius Institutes, which are run, by the way, by the United Front, the political warfare organization.
An overarching thing we need to do is have a strong piece of legislation regulating political activity in Canada by foreign countries and allowing for severe punishments or retribution for it. I think we do have some sort of legislation at the moment, but clearly it is not tough enough.
It also needs to be applied. Several other countries, Australia being one of them.... I hope we can hear from Clive later on about their experience with their application of this legislation regulating and curtailing activities of foreign political organizations.