Yes, I found it surprising, too.
The issue is that, if you give testimony at committee, like you do here, it's like testifying in court. If Mac Anderson lied, that would be serious.
What we found was that documents received by the media said that the “real nerve centre wasn't Richmond, B.C.”, but at the APP office in Shanghai. This source stated that those teams, APP Shanghai, handled the legal, accounting, finance and market analysis. There were “no boundaries between staff working for one company or the other”.
Why would someone who works for APP go to the media and say there's no difference between what is happening with the APP staff and the PE staff?