Michael Barrett at the Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics Committee

On December 10th, 2024. See this statement in context.

December 10th, 2024 / 4:35 p.m.

Conservative

Michael Barrett Conservative Leeds—Grenville—Thousand Islands and Rideau Lakes, ON

I'm interested in your investigatory powers.

The government has ordered the closure of the TikTok offices in Canada.

Whom are you going to investigate in the future, if there's an issue raised with respect to TikTok, if they have no presence in Canada and if they terminate...as has been the ordered by the government, for very opaque reasons?

We have no metric or measure to be able to judge whether those are good reasons or not, but they've ordered the closure of these offices.

Whom would you investigate and you ask documents from?

Would you ask foreign entities? Would those foreign entities have any obligation whatsoever to participate or co-operate with your investigations?

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