My intent in commissioning the new memo—and I should say that it was also a report not intended for anybody to take action—is that I wished to drill down to try to convince myself of the details, or more of the details of exactly what had been going on.
My information is that the United Front workers department of the Communist Party of China has existed in one form or another in Canada since the 1950s. I was interested to know what had been happening in all of that time. What was the exact nature of the foreign interference threat in Canada and what should we do about it?
I asked the team to come back to me with everything they could marshal in terms of examples, specific examples, of what China was doing in Canada so that I could inform myself and, if necessary, inform the Prime Minister. That was the intent behind my commissioning the additional work.