Madam Chair, what struck me is that Mr. Alexander seemed very upset by my journalism. He's upset that I report about these procurements that go off-line. For me, that's just reporting on where our tax dollars are going, so I don't understand what that big issue is.
I'll give you an example of some of the things that people have accused me of doing—like Russian disinformation. Last year, Canadian Forces were training Ukrainian troops in Poland and the Canadian troops were not getting paid their allowances for their food. That was causing problems back home in the families, because there's less money. The spouses of these soldiers approached me, told me the story and asked me if I could write a story. I wrote a story. It was brought up in the House of Commons, and a week and a half later, these soldiers started getting their pay, but this appears to be.... Then I started getting emails saying, “You're embarrassing Canada. You're helping the Russians. This is Russian disinformation.”
My response to this is in reporting on this type of thing. It's not Russian disinformation. If you don't want the Russians to use this information, then pay the soldiers properly. That is the issue here. Not everything is Russian disinformation because it might embarrass the Canadian Forces or the government of the day, and the sense I got from him, he seemed very perturbed about my reporting.