Canada-China Relations committee  Mr. Chair, I will not be so presumptuous as to tell parliamentarians what they should do, but I can tell you, as the director of CSIS, that we and our colleagues in the national security and intelligence community are just as concerned about many files. The threat environment e

Canada-China Relations committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. For the record, I will say that I did not write this paragraph. That's why we employ people at CSIS who are much more intelligent than I am to make sense of this information. Seriously, Mr. Chair, what I think is important here is understanding that the cu

Canada-China Relations committee  Yes, Mr. Chair, I have.

Canada-China Relations committee  Mr. Chair, I'll go back down memory lane here. I believe the report that Mr. Ellis is referring to is a document that was sponsored by CSIS but was produced by academics under Chatham House Rule. The conclusions about New Zealand were conclusions that were made public by CSIS thr

Canada-China Relations committee  Mr. Chair, I'm not at liberty to discuss the specific details of that cyber-attack. The origin of that attack has not been attributed publicly by FINTRAC. I can say that we and our other partners in the national security and cyber community in the Government of Canada are workin

Canada-China Relations committee  Mr. Chair, to the question by Mr. Angus, I would say that we are seeing and detecting more cyber-attacks from the PRC, and also from many other countries and states, but from criminal organizations as well. We see the rise of ransomware that is sometimes purely criminal in nature

Canada-China Relations committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair, for the question. Absolutely, we're trying to look at AI from two sides of the coin. We need to look at how we can harness artificial intelligence in our own practices. At CSIS we are using AI for different processes already. We're working with partners in

Canada-China Relations committee  That is accurate.

Canada-China Relations committee  Mr. Chair, we'll definitely undertake to try to collect that information to the best of our ability. Yes.

Canada-China Relations committee  The IMU notes are now very famous. I will have to go back and verify whether one was written.

Canada-China Relations committee  Mr. Chair, through you, do you mean other than the ones that were produced?

Canada-China Relations committee  We have, Mr. Chair, produced a number of assessments that I have been speaking to in terms of scientific research in Canada being targeted by foreign actors. I will have to double-check to see whether there was anything over and above what was produced in committee. I just don't

Canada-China Relations committee  Mr. Chair, as you know, these documents were produced to the committee through a very elaborate review process with three distinguished judges. The information that is produced to the community at this point is what is available, what we can release in the public domain. I will n

Canada-China Relations committee  Mr. Chair, as I've mentioned numerous times at this committee, I cannot reveal the specific details of our investigation, and that would include the specific information that was known at some specific points. I think we have been through the process that was established here to

Canada-China Relations committee  There have been a lot of very specific details provided—