I don't have any direct information about the Winnipeg situation, but it does fit into a pattern that goes back to the 1940s and 1950s, and particularly after diplomatic recognition in 1970, when, very soon afterwards, there were arrangements made for the exchange of students and of researchers.
What is very noticeable is that the Canadians who went to China went to study language and culture, and the Chinese who came here gravitated toward the technical faculties of universities and other institutions, and that has carried on.
Of course, as we know, it has also involved, more lately, Chinese or Communist Party-associated institutions financing research here, using our expertise to their own ends, and often the patents that have resulted from that research go to the People's Republic of China; they have not stayed here.
It's a very broad effort here in our technical institutions and also, of course, it has been accompanied by a very large influx of Chinese undergraduate students, with the result that a lot of the revenue of some of our universities.... In some universities, more than half of the tutorial revenue comes from foreign students and, in some cases, most of that comes from China.
They have made a very consistent and lengthy effort to use our universities to their own ends.