Well, I think it is well known by now that CSIS has produced reports that the Chinese Communist regime has inserted their interference on local elections—or even national elections—in Canada.
That is not new to many Hong Kong Canadians or Chinese Canadians here, but in order to stop these types of foreign interference, the first step is to create transparency. This foreign influence transparency registry would require these foreign agents to report on any formal connections or any transactions they provide to Canadian public officials. In that way, at least that would give the public an understanding of what is going on. That is really one of the first steps that the Canadian government should take to at least create some barriers to these types of interference—those boundaries.
The other thing is that we should certainly monitor the progress, the evolving, of the cases of Jimmy Lai and 47 people, as well as article 23, which is a national security law that would be produced by Hong Kong itself and is in addition to the national security law that was imposed by the Beijing government in 2020.
This article 23 would redefine state secrecy and also redefine foreign connections. In so doing, the law would prohibit a lot of exchanges or make certain connections or interactions off limit, especially for journalists and for civil society, academics and other organizations alike. In assessing and analyzing—