Thank you, Chair.
Thank you, High Commissioner. I really appreciate you being here and your testimony today.
When Minister LeBlanc appeared before our committee on this study in the summer, he also spoke about intelligence-sharing relationships between Canada and the U.K., in particular between CSIS and MI6. In your testimony here today, you spoke about challenges that both countries and, in fact, the entire world are facing with similar issues and growing threats in the world. In response to Mr. MacGregor's question, you specifically brought up right-wing extremist violence.
I had been looking into some of this, and I think you're referring to the far-right disorder that had clear Russian involvement. The headline on the article is that former MI6 spies have been saying this. One of the areas, from reading articles in the Guardian, was that one of the far-right mechanisms for creating disorder, mistrust and distrust was to create news outlets on online platforms that look like mainstream American network news and specifically have individuals who are, in this case, U.K. citizens promote and influence Russian interference and Russian media-type messages to impact politics and the democratic institutions in the U.K.
Is this a conversation that's happening as widely in the U.K. government as it is here in Canada?