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

On November 20th, 2023. See this statement in context.

November 20th, 2023 / 4:05 p.m.

Conservative

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

I appreciate that.

Is it understood that it's a technique of the dictatorship in Beijing to scrape social media in order to isolate and target the people who are the intended targets of those repressive activities? Is social media a tool used by agents acting out of these locations to gather intelligence and then target those individuals?

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