Procedure and House Affairs committee  I think it is crucial to first rebuild trust. Many in the diaspora don't believe in intelligence or security agencies anymore because when we do report incidents, they fail to inform us of any progress or anything. The first step is repairing that relationship. Some of it is hav

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Yes, I do.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Yes.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I have. I have appeared in Canada-China relations and at the IRCC committee as well as the ethics committee, and they've all had tech issues in appearing electronically.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Yes.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I believe so. Within minutes of receiving an email from this committee inviting me to appear, my home Internet just stopped working, specifically for my laptop. I was still able to access the Internet via my phone, my iPad or other devices, but my computer itself would not conne

Procedure and House Affairs committee  To begin with, we need to address that there are ongoing criminal activities being undertaken against dissidents and members of diaspora communities here. We need those issues to be resolved in order to trust the legal system to carry out its duties in protecting Canadians who ar

Procedure and House Affairs committee  It is quite unsafe for diaspora and ethnic communities to speak out. I think it is important to acknowledge that those individuals who feel safe enough to speak out in public spaces often can't face the repercussions for their action from state actors, making it an incredibly uns

Procedure and House Affairs committee  It's of course a very scary experience. These alleged police stations make them further afraid and they remain silent because of them.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Astroturfing refers to initiatives that Beijing undertakes to try to appear to be a grassroots ethnic organization. They do this either by using a name or acronym similar to that of an existing organization or by forming a shell organization to appear to be a community grassroots

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Maybe I'll start. When I first founded Alliance Canada Hong Kong three years ago, I spent a week in Vancouver. My hotel room was booked by my colleague under a name that was different name from mine. The day after we launched Alliance Canada Hong Kong, I held a press conference.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Beijing seeks to use the appearance of grassroots organizations to carry out their state or party agenda, so they try to take over existing grassroots organizations or create shell organizations with the intention of appearing to be a grassroots community organization.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I believe my colleague, Ai-Men, can speak a bit on it.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I serve as executive director of Alliance Canada Hong Kong. The Chinese party state apparatus is one of the most sophisticated actors in foreign interference activities. Beijing actively interferes in liberal-democratic political systems to shift social environments toward Beij

Information & Ethics committee  —for people who don't have digital literacy training or background knowledge to identify these as state narratives.