It's a very quickly developing situation. We learned only a couple of months ago, because of an unsealed report from the Department of Justice compiled by the FBI in the United States, that in January 2021 there was an attempt by a hostile foreign state actor connected with the communist dictatorship in Beijing to infiltrate 18 parliamentarians' personal email accounts.
I know you haven't had a chance to get into the debate that took place in Parliament—I am hopeful, and certainly, I've been at committee here and we haven't been called to a vote, so I think that's a good sign that it passed unanimously to send that to PROC—but I'm wondering if you can share some thoughts with this committee about how important that is, and not just the protection of private information when it comes to MPs being able to do their jobs. Obviously, that's one part of it, but I also brought up in my speech last night how important it is to ensure that Canadians feel protected and that appropriate responses are brought forward when there are attempts to use private information for nefarious purposes, whether that be with diaspora communities that may be at odds with a government they have a connection to or other uses. I'm wondering if you can provide any comments on that and share some thoughts with this committee.