Mr. Chair, the minister is receiving a lot of information, of course, mostly from his department. He's also receiving information through his participation in different committees, and that includes receiving intelligence from CSIS.
I do understand the member's question. Again, I just want to reiterate that I think the words I've used in this committee in my opening remarks and the words we've used in our public report and in previous public appearances here in Canada have spoken very clearly about the magnitude.
I may not have used the term “existential threat”, but I can tell you that we are seeing it from that point of view. If the chair is indulgent, I would say that one of the issues we have to be very clear about is that the PRC, under the leadership of Xi Jinping, has essentially created an environment in which all of the resources of the state have been combined under the leadership of the chairman to essentially create the tools for the PRC to succeed. That, indeed, includes—