Science and Research committee  I've never actually submitted a tri-council research grant, so I would not be at liberty to say.

Science and Research committee  I am very lucky. I have a very supportive group of professors and students around me, but I don't think that many of my colleagues have had similar experiences. Students have expressed that they are worried that they're not going to get certain scholarships in Canada because thei

Science and Research committee  Yes, country-agnostic is really important. The entity based on conduct, based on activities that the particular entity has taken on, I do agree that has to be re-evaluated. Once state entities catch on that you're catching on to them, they change their name and they change their

Science and Research committee  Sure.

Science and Research committee  Yes, that would be the ideal way we could move forward.

Science and Research committee  Another issue is that a lot of these malicious actors will mask their affiliations. They will purposely hide that they're affiliated with a state entity or military entity, so it requires a bit of research and work. I think this is what Professor Fung was saying, that university

Science and Research committee  Yes, in a way, but I think that even if we're collaborating with a U.S. entity that has known human rights violations, our reaction should be the same as we how would react to collaborating with a Chinese entity that has human rights violations in its record. That's what I mean b

Science and Research committee  I think what you mean by a country-agnostic solution is the start of an anti-racist approach in addressing national security concerns when it comes to academia. As I said, there is also other regime security in academia that Beijing is interested in advancing. I think that, for

Science and Research committee  Mr. Chair, I have witnessed Beijing's influence in Canadian academia and the research sector, having heard through ACHK from these concerned community members, and also through my own observations as a graduate student in the sociology and anthropology department at Carleton Univ

Procedure and House Affairs committee  For one, we repeatedly urge this committee to consider country-agnostic views on these types of policy, because we don't want the registry to be seen as falling into racial tropes whereby it overcompensates and only applies to ethnic individuals in Canada. We look to the transpa

Procedure and House Affairs committee  In one of our older reports from 2020, we actually recorded pro-Beijing actors undertaking a global operation in countering pro-Hong Kong democracy activists. It happened across seven provinces and across the U.K., Australia, New Zealand, Germany, Japan and Taiwan. What we saw th

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I think most of the western world is lacking in it, but I urge the committee to look at Taiwan and some of their more successful tactics in safeguarding their communities.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Beijing has a multidecade engagement and outreach strategy on national security. Most western countries, due to democratic cycles, only have four-year plans, so most countries in this world are falling behind Beijing's interference operations.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Yes. Our organization was invited in August 2020 to speak to the Canada-China committee. After our testimony, our website and our cyber-network were basically taken down by hackers from Russia and from China. We recorded extensively the cyber-attacks and the IP addresses they wer

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I won't be able to confirm it. I don't have solid knowledge, but I can say that most of the diaspora who are aware of the information tactics that are used by the United Work Front deem ethnic media in Canada as compromised and overwhelmingly pro-Beijing. It's also because of t