Public Safety committee  That is the million-dollar question, and I think we can show that this is really poorly established. The RCMP, when they testified two weeks ago, mentioned 273 cases in 2019 and 2020. How many of those did actually result in actionable charges? There was the Victoria legislature

Public Safety committee  I think in general we have a relatively homeopathic approach in this country towards all matters of national security. If we improved the overall capabilities, capacities and skill sets of our national security agencies—both the criminal intelligence and security intelligence—it

Public Safety committee  If you look at the amount of research that Dr. Perry has collected, if there was a connection, let alone a strong connection, between bravado and violence, we would expect to see a lot more violence in Canada than we do. What it suggests is that we need a much more nuanced approa

Public Safety committee  I'll provide a very brief reply that while there is a proliferation of groups—and Dr. Perry can maybe comment on the Canadian context—in the U.S., the vast majority of postings online are generated by a tiny group of individuals. This is not a random distribution problem across s

Public Safety committee  That's a lovely question, Mr. Harris. Of course, the Canadian Armed Forces is an institution that is tasked with defending our way of life. There is conduct that is unacceptable in the Canadian Armed Forces that may be acceptable in civil society. It might still be objectionable

Public Safety committee  It's a very good question in light of what my very talented colleague, Dr. Perry, just presented. If we think of this as a pyramid, at the top we have people who are engaged in illegal action and violent action. Those are the people we commonly refer to as terrorists. Below tha

Public Safety committee  There is a temptation in the public discourse, I think, to reduce this to monocausal explanations, and clearly, religion can be one of them. There are so many people who are religious, and virtually none of them become violent. Many of the people who become violent, for instance,

Public Safety committee  I would say that the much-vaunted risk reduction measures that CSIS was granted, commonly known as “disruption”—the ones that do not require warrants—have proven quite effective and successful at reducing risk. I would also say that we have a federal police force that spends 85%

Public Safety committee  Mr. Chair, vice-chairs and members of the committee, thank you for inviting me today to discuss this very important topic. I would be happy to answer your questions in either official language. I've provided my text in English, so I will follow it. Violent extremism in Canada i

Canada-China Relations committee  That's why I was very disappointed when Mr. Biden announced sanctions against Russia in relation to SolarWinds and Canada did not. In Canada, at least 100 companies have also been affected. President Biden pointed out that some of the behaviour was unacceptable. I think that Cana

Canada-China Relations committee  We're a diverse society. We're a highly digitized and highly technological society. We're all the things you listed, but look, here's the contrast. Last week Christopher Wray, the director of the FBI, testified before Congress. He indicated that the FBI opens a new investigation

Canada-China Relations committee  It's markets of opportunity. Look, the U.S., Australia and U.K. are much harder targets than Canada because of the sort of legal ecosystem and the homeopathic security intelligence system that we have—

Canada-China Relations committee  Absolutely. Look at the countries that were in a very good position in terms of their intelligence services, including Taiwan, Australia and even Vietnam. They responded very quickly, not only because of their intelligence services, but also because of their assessment capabilit

Canada-China Relations committee  The belt and road Initiative is of course an opportunity to influence in particular the neighbourhood, but it also provides global reach. It comes at very high risk, however, because China has sold this to its population by saying that this money will be repaid, that this is a wo

Canada-China Relations committee  China poses the most significant threat to Canada's security in decades. However, I don't believe that China poses an existential threat to Canada. The assertion that China poses an existential threat would make it more difficult to build a coalition of allies to impose constrai