To the best of my recollection, in all of my interactions with Mr. Johnston and his team, we were not dealing principally or even occasionally with individual pieces of intel.
The first time I met Mr. Johnston was on Easter Monday in the afternoon, and it was.... I believe, by that time, Mr. Johnston had had introductory briefings with a range of federal public service colleagues.
As deputy minister of foreign affairs, I'm responsible for something called the rapid-response mechanism. I was on the panel of five, but I believe most of the introductory briefings came from the security and intelligence community. I was interested—and he was interested, I think—in learning more about the difference between foreign interference and foreign influence.