Thank you for the question.
Yes, one hundred per cent. Definitely I've heard cases first hand. I've talked to people in the community who have told me that after attending even community events with the name “Hong Konger” in them, people showed up outside their home and took photos of them. That's only the surface of it.
I've heard cases from Hong Kongers who came here to Canada to escape political persecution in Hong Kong. After attending a pro-democracy rally in Canada, they returned home with flyers, stickers and posters of pro-democracy sentiments and put them up in the room that they were renting. They were subsequently evicted for other reasons.
This individual found out later that the landlord was a core member of the United Front Work Department. This is here on Canadian soil.
Even besides the things we know about foreign interference, like the overseas police stations or intimidation faced by community members, this is a day-to-day reality for Hong Kongers in Canada, as well as for Uyghurs, Tibetans, Falun Gong practitioners and other dissident groups that have come to Canada in search of freedom, only to find that the Chinese Communist Party's far-reaching hand is still here.
I really urge the government to take a more serious look at the community impact of transnational repression.