Well, I think the machinery of government is the Prime Minister's responsibility alone. That's not just my opinion. That's a fact. “Open and accountable government” makes it clear that the Prime Minister alone is responsible for the machinery of government—in other words, responsible for the architecture of the government, the organizational structure of the government—and it is astounding that the structure would be established in a way that would prevent MPs who were being targeted from being made aware of those specific threat activities.
I would add that the best practice of Five Eyes alliance allies makes it clear that other allies in the Five Eyes alliance have long had those procedures in place. I referenced in my opening comments a procedure, a protocol, that's in place between MI5 and the U.K. House of Commons. I referenced two examples of how that protocol was used in the last several years to protect the integrity of the U.K. Parliament from threats emanating from either an agent of the PRC or two individuals acting as agents of the Russian Federation.
Clearly, that type of protocol should have been put in place years ago when these threats were first raised by our intelligence community.