What I would share with the committee is that it's a very complex world that we are facing in terms of navigating national security. The CSIS director, in his public speech in November 2025, highlighted the overlap of the various tools that are available to hostile state actors to be able to perpetrate foreign interference.
We also are very conscious of the Venn diagram of the types of techniques that foreign actors will use. In some instances, there may be overlap with the use of criminal proxy agents. In the foreign interference space—and CSIS has issued an alert about this for Canadians—there may also be the use of private investigators to assist and enable transnational repression. Similarly, in the cyberspace, we are aware of the overlap between criminal entities that support various hostile states in undertaking those efforts.
While I won't speak to the specifics of any ongoing efforts by the RCMP or other police of jurisdiction as they relate to extortion specifically, we can tell you that we do monitor the efforts of multiple states as they relate to the engagements of proxies, private sectors or criminal organizations. That is part of what we look at in monitoring for threats to Canadians.