Good morning, everyone. I call this meeting to order.
Welcome to meeting No. 63 of the House of Commons Standing Committee on Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics.
Today’s meeting is taking place in a hybrid format, pursuant to the House Order of June 23, 2022, and therefore, members can attend in person in the room and remotely using the Zoom application.
Should any technical challenges arise, please advise me immediately. Please note that we may need to suspend for a few minutes, as we need to ensure that all members are able to fully participate.
Pursuant to Standing Order 108(3)(h) and the motion adopted by the committee on Wednesday, December 7, 2022, the committee is resuming its study of foreign interference and threats to the integrity of democratic institutions, intellectual property and the Canadian state.
In accordance with the committee's routine motion concerning connection tests for witnesses, I am informing the committee that all witnesses have completed the required connection tests in advance of today's meeting.
I would now like to welcome our witnesses. First is Kenny Chiu, a former member of Parliament. We then have Michel Juneau-Katsuya, who is the former chief of the Asia-Pacific unit of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, and Jonathan Manthorpe, international affairs columnist and author. Victor L. M. Ho, retired editor of Sing Tao Daily, British Columbia edition, is with us online. We also have Dan Stanton, who is the former executive manager of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, and Artur Wilczynski, senior fellow of the graduate school of public and international affairs in the faculty of social sciences at the University of Ottawa.
I thank all of you for being with us today. We have two hours, so we're going to have 30 minutes of opening statements at five minutes each. I'm going to keep to the timelines today, so that we can get as much in as we can.
Mr. Chiu, you have five minutes to address the committee. Please commence.