Madam Chair, thank you for the question.
I believe the issues management note is dated May 30 or 31, 2021. The date I gave as the Privy Council Office reconstructing when it arrived to me.... It's been in the press that I was on some medical leave earlier in the month, but it arrived in my reading pack on August 17.
I don't know exactly when the more fulsome brief was given to Mr. Chong. That's a question to put to CSIS.
Your timeline is largely accurate. I don't want to have confused things with the use of the term “influence map”. My point was simply that diplomats around the world keep lists of people in order to do their jobs so that—