Thank you very much, Madam Chair.
I'd like to thank the witnesses for being with us today.
My first question is for Professor Leuprecht.
The last panel we heard from had some pretty powerful testimony with respect to foreign interference and the fact that it's been going on for decades. I'm not sure if you were watching, but in that last panel we heard about the case of a Chinese state-run agency, Xinhua, asking a journalist to spy on the former prime minister. A reporter at that same news agency was involved in a scandal with the parliamentary secretary to foreign affairs minister John Baird, Bob Dechert, in an apparent honeytrap operation.
How concerning is it that this was all so close to an important ministry like foreign affairs?