Thank you.
A lot of your opening remarks echoed what we heard in our meeting two days ago from Dr. Cooley. He was talking a lot about the new Russian exiles: journalists, IT workers and academics. He was really recommending that our committee find ways to enhance and strengthen those networks. I think your opening remarks were very much along that vein.
You talked about strengthening the ties in Russian studies among universities here in Canada, overseas, in the U.K. and in the United States. If our committee is going to make a recommendation to the federal government in a national security context, I would like to know how we can best partner think tanks at universities and abroad with these Russian exiles as well as with our security and intelligence agencies.
If we're going to make recommendations to the RCMP and CSIS, do they need to have more in-depth training of their personnel and a better understanding of how Russians operate and what Russian society is like, etc.?