Public Safety committee  The answer is yes. Particularly Australia, the U.K., the U.S. and also Scandinavian countries have a lot to teach us in terms of drawing the appropriate line between not revealing information that would be threatening to Canada's national security and where the security agency is

Public Safety committee  Compared to other countries, Canada has been less proactive in prosecuting or outing elements that have engaged in cyber-espionage. The United States has identified a number of agents of the Chinese People's Liberation Army who have been involved in this kind of activity. We te

Public Safety committee  I think it is a cause of great concern. Essentially, because of Mr. Putin's badly advised or probably not advised invasion of Ukraine, Russia will be considerably weakened, both militarily because they're losing a lot of stuff—they lost the Moskva in the Black Sea—and they're als

Public Safety committee  I wouldn't want to politicize it in terms of a political party, but I do think that if we do not make diplomats in Canada accountable for activities that are not consistent with their diplomatic status, whether this is menacing and harassment of people in Canada, or attempting to

Public Safety committee  Thank you, Chair. The threat posed by Russia to Canada's public safety and national security has increased significantly since the western democracies responded to Russia's invasion of Ukraine with measures designed to cripple Russia's economy and with weapons support for the Uk

Industry committee  I don't have expertise in this area, but it seems to me that if you're looking for a reliable partner, the United States is a much better bet than the People's Republic of China. We have to diversify our sources to the extent that we can. The main thing is that when this committ

Industry committee  No, I don't. Particularly with China and their highly coordinated process, they can be inclined to make multiple investments that are just under the threshold areas to try to achieve their.... It's like playing a game of go; they eventually surround you and then you're stuck. No,

Industry committee  We certainly want to have our own capacity to be independent of other nations, including the United States. What's most important is that the supply chains be implemented among like-minded countries that respect the rules and the spirit of the WTO and the international rules-base

Industry committee  In general, when we have.... For example, when there was a reversal of a cabinet decision with regard to the sale of technologies from a Montreal company that was applicable to directed energy weaponry, or when we decided to allow China to acquire a large satellite company that h

Industry committee  I'm definitely very concerned about our lack of effective action on this. I was completely flummoxed when we had an opportunity to stop the Chinese acquisition of a Canadian-controlled mine in Argentina. A lot of this seems to have to do with persons who were involved in the pol

Industry committee  Absolutely. As I said in my presentation, I think that.... When you look at Chinese enterprises, they're all under the control of the Chinese Communist Party. They all have Chinese Communist Party branches at the top of their hierarchical structure, and it's the party secretary w

Industry committee  I think it's almost certain that China would do that if it wanted to get something from Canada, such as more access to our high tech or a greater capacity for the Chinese state to invest in Canadian mining and other critical infrastructure.

Industry committee  That's not really a question I have the expertise to answer. There are a lot of people here who have more. Obviously, we should be pulling the stuff out of the ground ourselves and processing it here. Experts may have a better take on that than me, but that just strikes me as a

Industry committee  My message really is that there is a lot of urgency here. I read the statement by Mr. Putin and Mr. Xi after their bilateral meeting at the Olympics. Clearly, they're getting much closer together and much more interested in creating the lines of what could be an intensified sort

Industry committee  This is a question that really can't be resolved by Canada alone. Certainly, the Chinese use of its belt and road initiative—which involves facilitating corruption and bribery of autocratic dictators in third world countries that have something in China's interest, particularly m