Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you to the panellists for being here.
I'm going to quote from page 4 in your report:
None of the incidents [of foreign interference] observed by the SITE TF during GE45 were determined by the Panel to have had an impact on Canada's ability to have a free and fair election.
I think you reconfirmed that several times in your testimony earlier today.
I'm going back to the report of Commissioner Hogue into foreign interference. She stated that in her opinion, information manipulation by foreign actors “poses the single biggest risk to our democracy. It is an existential threat.”
I think you all appreciate that the public is alarmed by that. Our democratic processes are very important to us. We want to know that we have free and fair democratic elections. You say that we have, yet it's an existential threat, so how do you connect those two?
If I could clarify where I'm going with this question, you also state as your goal: “Canadians must have full confidence that their election is secure.” How do you connect all of that together? There's alarm on the one side, but you're hoping that we're feeling secure about our election processes.