Thank you very much, Madam Chair.
As an intelligence officer of a member state of the Group of Five, you are aware of what's happening in interference matters elsewhere in the world. We've seen that interference has been intense, organized and planned, particularly in the United Kingdom, France, Australia and the United States. You just discussed that.
Consider France as an example. Mr. Macron, a candidate in the 2017 presidential election, had his campaign hacked. You'll see what I'm getting at. It was orchestrated by Russia. The Direction générale de la sécurité intérieure, the DGSI, which is France's counterintelligence service, opened an investigation, and the French public was extensively informed about the situation.
Why, in Canada, did information have to be leaked for CSIS to urge the government to do the intensive work it's now doing?