Chair, I'll go ahead and give that a shot.
The first thing is that these agencies need to have a positive requirement on them to inform parliamentarians. What I don't want to see is what I've now experienced, where the Sergeant-at-Arms office says that HoC cybersecurity knew but the Sergeant-at-Arms office didn't know. Then they come here and everybody says someone else was told to tell someone. It's unclear to me. Again, you have the in camera discussions that were had. I note that CSE kept saying that they could answer some of those questions in camera.
I need to know. I need to know whether I'm a target. It will change the way I do my work, because it's already had an impact on my work. When I have people reach out to me who want to meet with me, if you Google my name, this is one of the things that will come up, so some people, some dissidents and journalists in exile, will self-censor. They will not reach out to us. If I email him, if I contact him on his social media, that might be tapped. That might already be compromised by a foreign agency.
There is public information showing that these foreign agencies have an interest in me for the work that we all do here. Because of that, it's already had an impact on the work I can do.
Thank you, Chair.