Mr. Chair, given the extensive track record of the Beijing regime to engage in foreign interference and transnational repression activities, it's completely unacceptable that we see this lack of transparency. On top of that, two years after a foreign influence registry received royal assent, we don't have a commissioner in place, don't have regulations in place, don't have an office fully open, don't have staff fully hired, and we have no timeline for when it is going to be up and running.
What we see time and again from these Liberals is that they simply don't take foreign interference seriously, particularly when it emanates from the Beijing dictatorship, with which the Prime Minister has so proudly heralded Canada's having a new strategic partnership—