Procedure and House Affairs committee  I can't, unfortunately, speak to the specifics of what the Prime Minister has or has not been briefed on in all of this. As I said before, and taking a step back from the specifics of your question, the Prime Minister has been briefed regularly and gets information in a variety

Procedure and House Affairs committee  The answer would be the same for me.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  As I said, I can't get into what the Prime Minister has or has not been briefed on in terms of specific intelligence. It's frustrating, I know. It is for me as well, but it's for the very important reasons that I laid out in my opening statement.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I've already referenced, over the course of the committee meeting today, at least one inaccuracy the NSIA has spoken to from reporting more broadly. I can't, unfortunately, go further than where the NSIA or the director of CSIS went when they were speaking before the committee.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  There have been a number of things we've been following up on from the reporting throughout the last number of months. There have been a number of things that don't add up in the way that we know them or that the officials are able to tell us about.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I would take a step back to where Canada was in its relations with China going into the 2019 and 2021 elections. They were probably at their lowest point—

Procedure and House Affairs committee  No. I think some of that we learned through reporting, as I think both have said. Yes, then there were conversations to try to figure out what some of these things were. You can see that in some of the timeline here too.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I don't want to presume what the special rapporteur is going to recommend, and the government and the Prime Minister have committed to following through on the recommendations when they come forward. It's not very long from now. I think we need to make sure that we follow throug

Procedure and House Affairs committee  First off, I agree with the concern. I think we should all be working to figure out paths forward that can be constructive and can be communicating as clearly to Canadians as possible that their institutions are strong and that they can have faith in their electoral systems. Yes,

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Very briefly, I do sign documents that are declarations of indoctrination in order to become cleared, and I take those things very seriously. I think as was mentioned, even the leader of the official opposition takes them so seriously that he did not want to be briefed or cleared

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I will go back again, either to, as one of the other members of the opposition said, the Prime Minister's words or to the NSIA's words. In the NSIA's case, it was to this committee, or it was the Prime Minister's words in the House or publicly. The connection being drawn between

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Yes.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  If we're talking about the information that I just talked about being inaccurate, then there wasn't such a meeting to be present at. As I said in my opening statement, although I am usually there when he's being briefed, there are times I'm not. When he's travelling and I'm not o

Procedure and House Affairs committee  There are a couple of things. First, everything the Prime Minister receives, he spends a lot of time with and most definitely reads. I can confirm that if they are documents that he received, he absolutely read them. Second, he's briefed on matters of foreign interference and m

Procedure and House Affairs committee  That is why I raised in the opening statement that that is something we always have to be guarding against and careful about. We have to treat this material with care because it can put lives at risk, most importantly because it's in Canada's national interest to keep this inform