Thank you.
Look, I think that's the real thing we need to be focused on. It's not just my case; it's the fact that, behind my case, there are many Canadians—it's hard to quantify—who have suffered in silence for years.
We've heard stories about people in tears who've been targeted by authoritarian states. For too long, the government hasn't taken action to defend them here on Canadian soil. We don't have any jurisdiction outside Canada to enforce Canadian law, but surely we can do a good job of defending Canadians here on Canadian soil who are being targeted at home by agents acting on behalf of authoritarian states.
Madam Chair, if I could indulge you, in addition to the June 24, 2021, meeting, which CSIS reached out to me to have—that was the meeting on the general nature of foreign interference threat activities—I can confirm that I reached out to CSIS three other times to convey to them information about threat activities that I believed were being targeted at me by the PRC. The meetings were on August 5, 2021, February 25, 2022, and July 18, 2022.