With regard to the funding commitments in budget 2023 related to combatting foreign election interference: (a) how much of the $48.9 million committed to the RCMP to protect Canadians from harassment and intimidation, increase its investigative capacity, and more proactively engage with communities at greater risk of being targeted, has been transferred to the RCMP to date; (b) of the amount in (a), what is the breakdown of how the money has been spent, including the locations of where it has been spent; (c) how much of the $13.5 million committed to Public Safety Canada to establish a National Counter-Foreign Intelligence Office has been transferred to date; (d) what is the breakdown of (c) by what the money has been used for; and (e) what is the projected timeline for when the National Counter-Foreign Intelligence Office will be fully operational?
In the House of Commons on January 29th, 2024. See this statement in context.