Procedure and House Affairs committee  I can take that one. At that particular fundraiser, the presence of a representative of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference raised flags for me, because that's the coordinating body for United Front Work, but I absolutely agree with you. In our country, we wan

Procedure and House Affairs committee  The Canadian Coalition on Human Rights in China is an organization that I've been advising since 2005. Coordinated by Amnesty International and consisting of Tibetans, diaspora groups, Uighurs, Falun Gong, democracy activists and many others, they have been requesting a proper go

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I think CSIS, as compared with the intelligence services of our like-minded allies, is much less forthcoming about what's going on. Therefore, we need more information about what they know about what sort of interference may have taken place. I don't know the basis for the judgme

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I think that certainly the legislation is by no means directed towards one group. It's called “foreign”, so any foreign power that's involved in trying to interfere in Canadian affairs by providing benefits to people in a position of trust in the civil service or Parliament shoul

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Is that for me?

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Obviously we don't know why people put an X next to whatever candidate they put it to—what factors inform that decision. However, within Canada, with the exception of the Falun Gong media—the Epoch Times, which I do not regard as a reliable source of information—they are all well

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I'm sorry; I didn't hear the translation.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  My subjective judgment was that the impact was enormous. People like to believe negative things. They're much more appealing than positive things. My personal view is that if it had not been for that disinformation—

Procedure and House Affairs committee  —Mr. Chiu would still be in Parliament today.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Yes. With regard to that particular instance some years ago, I believe that the person who coordinated the joint donation to the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation was a member of the standing committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, which is the lead U

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I think there is a problem within Canada of a lot of influence from Chinese benefits going to people in positions of trust. When the Australian Foreign Influence Transparency Scheme Act came into effect in 2019, several former Australian politicians resigned from lucrative boards

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I think what happened in the case of Mr. Chiu was that on the same day that a poll came out that showed that the Conservatives might achieve a minority government, this massive campaign of disinformation on multiple Chinese-language websites directed at people in Canada appeared.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Certainly, the disinformation that was launched in the recent election, in particular in Steveston—Richmond East at former MP Kenny Chiu, was largely in the Chinese language and largely inaccessible to people who are monitoring elections. In other words, we don't have the capabil

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Yes. Party General Secretary Xi Jinping, since he came into power 10 years ago, has allocated a massive increase in resources towards the United Front Work Department, particularly their 9th and 10th bureaus, which are involved in engaging with persons of Chinese origin in forei

Procedure and House Affairs committee  They're putting a lot more resources into it. It's becoming a much more central part of the Chinese government's foreign policy.