Canada-China Relations committee  We at CSIS have not provided any public numbers about the Fox Hunt operation. I did speak to this operation in previous public remarks where I talked about the approach. In this case, the Chinese government has been using an anti-corruption operation targeted across the world to

Canada-China Relations committee  I would say that, yes, the pandemic has taken its toll on us, but the men and women of CSIS have found innovative ways to address the new and emerging threats during the pandemic. For example, we have put outreach to Canadian biopharma companies and laboratories that are subject

Canada-China Relations committee  I would just say that we have mechanisms to reach out to the communities ourselves, but we also have a 1-800 number where we are referring people to contact CSIS directly, anonymously, to be able to report the activities. We do so to protect the identity of the people reaching ou

Public Safety committee  My understanding of the early warning system, the Global Public Health Information Network housed at the Public Health Agency, is that it was to do open-source research to determine what we call “low signal” potential pandemic issues. This was an organization that was very much l

Public Safety committee  Thank you, Minister. Thank you, Mr. Van Popta, for your question. This is a very important item when we talk about the safety and security of Canadians. At CSIS, we do investigate the threats posed by different actors. We advise government and we take measures to reduce the thre

Public Safety committee  Yes. Thank you, Mr. Dubé. Thank you, Minister. I would just add, Monsieur Dubé, that the program you referred to has been in place for a number of years now to prevent, as the minister mentioned and as you referred to in your prelude, traffickers from bringing people to Canada

Public Safety committee  Yes. Thank you, Minister. Thank you, Mr. Dubé. Essentially, this is related to overall foreign investment into the country when we're looking at a different country's different state-owned enterprises, different entities, trying to invest in greenfield investment here in Canada

Public Safety committee  Thank you, Minister. Specifically, it's our effort to support the whole-of-government approach to the Middle East operations, the military and diplomatic operations in Syria and Iraq. The monies you see here for the main estimates are the specific allocations for CSIS to support

Public Safety committee  Mr. Rigby described the way it is done very well. I mentioned in my first answer to you, Ms. Sahota, that it was based on our own investigations. I want to be very clear that they were CSIS-led investigations.

Public Safety committee  I'm not the author of the report, so I cannot comment on exactly why the final wording is there. However, I can say from a CSIS perspective, as I mentioned earlier, that we're not looking at a specific religion; we're looking at the activity of individuals. If the activity of i

Public Safety committee  I can't speak for all the groups, but essentially, if you look at a funnel, the vast majority of the commentary, the vile commentary online, will have an impact on society but would not be admitted to the criminal threshold. Then you have a small amount of that, which may be of i

Public Safety committee  From CSIS's perspective, the way we look at this is that any individuals or groups who are looking to use violence to achieve political, religious or ideological objectives are a threat to national security as per the definition in our act. I'm on the record in the other chamber

Public Safety committee  Thank you, Minister. Thank you for your question and for giving me an opportunity to elaborate on this topic. As you can imagine, CSIS's national security investigations are very fluid. They're influenced by events taking place here in Canada and taking place abroad. Our mandat

Public Safety committee  If I remember correctly, I've said that terrorism is and will remain the most significant threat to public safety. However, the point of my speech was to bring attention to the significant long-term impact of espionage and foreign interference in our prosperity, democracy and sov

Public Safety committee  Specifically in terms of the non-warranted threat reduction measures, the new bill does not impose any new measures. The service has used threat reduction measures about 30 or so times. In your specific example, if we were aware of an individual who wanted to travel abroad for t