Madam Chair, thank you for both questions. I'll answer very briefly but I hope helpfully.
With respect to whether we would expect members of the diaspora community to be able to appear before a public hearing in openness, I'm quite confident they will, in many instances, and in instances where they do not want to be there, we would receive submissions. We've already received perhaps half a dozen or so submissions from diaspora communities, very painfully and eloquently setting out the burdens that they're bearing and crying out for help. In the cases of people who feel they can't come in person, we would invite and encourage whatever information they could give us and, in particular, what steps we can take.
Now, let's come to the question of curiosity in dealing with those foreign threats. In our report, as you know, we've been quite critical of the shortcomings of the government, indicating that it has been slow to react and slow to anticipate in many instances, and that must be changed, but it must be changed with the work of this committee and other parliamentary committees. NSICOP and NSIRA—one in place since 2017, the other since 2019—are review and oversight committees. That's the kind of responsibility to see whether our agencies are working properly or not, and we must bolster that kind of thing.
I'm quite in agreement that we have not had that kind of curiosity, and particularly the flow of information so that we may act upon [Inaudible—Editor], and I hope we can address that.