That's a very broad question, and I appreciate it.
I'm in the middle of writing another book about the problems of Canadian democracy, which maybe we can talk about when the book comes out.
I think we do have a problem of trust in our democratic institutions that goes beyond foreign interference. There have been several people who have mentioned this morning that it's not just the People's Republic of China that has gone beyond the bounds of lobbying and into the area of serious interference in Canadian public life. I think we need a registry for just that reason. This is a general problem, not something deeply concerned with only the People's Republic of China.
I think the level of trust in our institutions has degraded over the last 20 or 30 years for various reasons, perhaps more than is appropriate to go into with this committee today. I wrote a book that came out in 2020, called Restoring Democracy. It looked at the whole period from the end of the Cold War and the various pressures on democracy in the last 30 years.
My latest book, which will hopefully come out next year, deals particularly with Canada in that context. I suspect that this may not be a matter for this committee at this moment, but I'll happily answer any other questions you have.