Thank you very much, Madam Chair, and thank you to all the witnesses for being here.
My first question is for Ms. Denham.
An open data analysis by the rapid response mechanism, dated September 13, 2021—that would have been during the 2021 election, to provide some context—was entitled “GE44: Chinese Communist Party Social Media Accounts Spreading Negative Narratives about the Conservative Party of Canada”. This analysis, which we've obtained through access to information and which I will table before this committee when I have a translated copy, includes the following key findings:
RRM Canada has observed what may be a Chinese Communist Party (CCP) information operation that aims to discourage Canadians of Chinese heritage from voting for the Conservative Party of Canada.
A further key finding is that “[t]he narrative has...grown in considerable scale”.
Was this analysis shared with the CEIPP election panel?