The experience was not just within my riding, as we all know—as you all know, as federal politicians. A lot of time, especially at election time, the party's platform and the party's leadership accounts for a large number of people...who will be voting for you or not.
Much of the disinformation that I observed was levelled against my party, misconstruing the platform as well as attacking the leader for the Conservative Party of Canada back then, Mr. Erin O'Toole. It was also levelled at me. They attacked Mr. O'Toole as if he was a white supremacist and anti-Chinese, anti-Asian.
As if that's not ridiculous enough, they levelled similar attacks on me personally. The fact that I'm an ethnic Chinese, that I speak fluent Cantonese and Mandarin, and that I read and write the language, didn't prevent them from labelling me as a traitor. I was a sell-out for what I had proposed in the last session of Parliament as my private member's bill, Bill C-282, the foreign interference registry act. It was misinterpreted and misconstrued as something that would cause persecution against all Chinese-Canadians, causing them significant grief.
These are things that I saw and personally experienced.