What I was told by Mr. Vigneault was that Mr. Wei Zhao was the diplomat involved in gathering information about me from his posting in Toronto. Beyond that, everything else I know is from the reports in the Globe and Mail, which highlight the breakdown in the machinery of government that I highlighted in my opening remarks. We would not be finding these things out from the Globe and Mail if we had a properly functioning and working national security architecture that informed members and their families about specific threat activities.
As I pointed out, the U.K. Parliament has protocols in place to inform members at large—all 640 or so members of the House—about persons who are in general targeting the House. They also have protocols in place to inform individual members when they are specifically being targeted. I think these things clearly should have been put in place a while ago in Canada.
Regarding your question about what else I know through the Globe reports, this individual, Mr. Wei Zhao, apparently came to Canada in 2018, and CSIS already had a significant intelligence file on this individual when he arrived here. Some of it was from the Communications Security Establishment and some of it was from U.S. intelligence. The Globe also reported that Global Affairs Canada had known about this individual for three years and knew that this individual was targeting not just me but other members of Parliament.