Of course.
There are actually a lot of influencing operations by the Iranian regime in Canada. Fortunately, there is so much evidence of it. Indeed, we produced an interview of when the Iranian embassy was here. The third counsellor, or the cultural counsellor, of the embassy gave an interview in Iran and said that they have to infiltrate Canadian institutions and political institutions via the next generations of Iranians in Canada. That was part of the reason for the closure of the embassy, among other things. All I am saying is that this was published and well publicized.
Besides that, there was an article in the Toronto Sun a few years ago. The head of a Canadian think tank was offered $80,000 to produce a report against the Iranian main opposition, calling them cults or terrorists and things like that. He refused. We don't know how many people did not refuse.
Coming to the present day again, a few weeks ago I read articles on the Global News website and in the National Post about the Iranian and Hezbollah influence operations using Vancouver casinos to do money laundering. A couple of years ago, there was another operation by the Ontario Provincial Police, who actually captured five Iranians involved in money laundering for political purposes.
There are many cases like that. We wish.... That's another reason that I believe this committee has to reconvene—hopefully, in the fall—to do a more detailed analysis of many aspects of the Iranian regime's operations in Canada. We would be more than happy to provide all of this evidence, most of it by Canadian researchers or law enforcement authorities, actually, including the RCMP, the OPP, the Vancouver police and things like that, on some of the Chinese gangs, based on the latest reports of money laundering and influencing Canadian universities and political institutions. That can also be easily followed up on.