Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
Thank you, colleagues.
The committee received a chronology of events from the CSE. The chronology states that CSIS issued a briefing on the Beijing-directed APT31 cyber-attack to 35 Government of Canada clients as early as November 2021.
I asked the director of CSIS who received this briefing, and he has undertaken to provide this committee with a list. However, he did say that, as a general rule, “such a product would indeed be distributed to the Privy Council Office, and that would include the national security and intelligence adviser” to the Prime Minister.
What does it say to you—the fact that, as early as November 2021, 35 Government of Canada clients, likely including the Prime Minister's own department, the PCO, were briefed about this cyber-attack, but you and every other member of Parliament who was a target were kept in the dark?
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