Thank you, Madam Chair.
Thank you, witnesses, for being with us.
I am going to ask one question and then give the rest of my time to Mr. Fergus.
At the ethics committee on June 2, Dean Baxendale, who is the chief executive officer of the China Democracy Fund, testified. He said:
Under the Harper government, a number of MOUs were entered into directly with the RCMP. This allowed some 25 China communist agents—we'll call them “policing agents”—to enter the country to look at repatriating supposed criminals from Canada. A number of them were deported during that period of time—about 290.
I think it's a safe assumption to make that these MOUs have encouraged this practice of policing or intimidating the Chinese community by folks coming from outside.
In your opinion, Monsieur Juneau-Katsuya, had the Harper government taken the consequences of this more seriously where would we be today? Would we be in a different place?