Well, there seems to be a significant lack of commitment, obviously, that you've identified. I'm surprised it didn't appear more obvious in your recommendations, but thank you for pointing that out. I'll have to search for those tables.
The thing that interests me the most in your report, because we've been dealing with it in the Canada-China committee and it was the focus of an opposition motion last week, is foreign interference in Canada. I'm not particularly referring to China, although we did hear witnesses saying some of the things that are reflected here in terms of going from one place to another. Your report notes a lack of coordination, for example, and a lack of direction on where to go.
I'm looking at the problems noted here, at the challenges the RCMP faces: that the operations are focused primarily on counterterrorism; that intelligence provided by CSIS is difficult to use as evidence supporting criminal investigations; that Public Safety only recently identified and dedicated resources to the issue of foreign interference; that until late 2017, interdepartmental collaboration on foreign interference was ad hoc and issue-specific; and that prioritizing areas of concern that are the most important has needed to be addressed, and that work in this regard is in its early stages.
It seems to me, Mr. McGuinty, that all of this adds up to kind of a conclusion, in my mind, that the whole issue of foreign interference has not really been taken seriously by these agencies that are either focused on other things or don't have their act together, as it were, and we're very late in the game in doing this. Was that your conclusion as well?