On the question of a 30-day period, the panel exists because it's in the caretaker period. Before that period and after that period, there are elected officials whose remit is to keep Canada safe from foreign interference. It would be inappropriate for a panel of unelected officials to be doing that when there is a ministry in place. I would say that there was an incident in the 2016 U.S. election, a data dump, an email dump, which many scholars believe had a material effect on the election, and no such panel existed—
On March 2nd, 2023. See this statement in context.