Canada-China Relations committee  Huawei has been found guilty of surveillance of Uighurs. Tencent has been found guilty. The UN had to push them out of the 75th UN anniversary because of that. Human rights groups raised concerns. The i5 Tech is also involved in Canadian universities, including Queen's and York.

Canada-China Relations committee  Just look at the case of York University and Queen's. They got in bed with a Chinese company, an AI company that's repressing Uighurs.

Canada-China Relations committee  It's a new term that has arisen in the last year and a half, but it's basically the authoritarian use of emerging technologies—AI, facial recognition, algorithms, looking at machine-driven communications—that really is authoritarian in every sense of the word. It's going to contr

Canada-China Relations committee  There's definitely a lot of interest to capture research at Canadian universities, as well as American universities, on certain technologies that are going to be used for military purposes or for controlling populations. I put on a conference three years ago with the AI community

Canada-China Relations committee  All around the world, even in Canada, you can see that most people don't look favourably on China anymore. Public polling of companies and citizens across the world, Canada included, shows that populations have totally unfavourable views of the Chinese government. It's partly C

Canada-China Relations committee  No, we haven't. After that event, a La Presse reporter was sent to interview the consul general. He really kowtowed to him. He did something truly ridiculous and it was picked up by the French- and English-language media across Canada. We were allowed to proceed, and we invited

Canada-China Relations committee  On the one hand, I am against genocide and I support the Uyghurs. On the other, I support the two Michaels. They are two separate things, but I understand why the Canadian government is really in a tight spot right now. They want to protect our two Canadians. If we send athletes

Canada-China Relations committee  In my opinion, the Huawei company is the most concerning, because it will be able to take all the data on our telephones and we will no longer have our privacy. There's also the company Tencent, which is looking to expand its business. The United Nations had to exclude it from it

Canada-China Relations committee  I can just make general comments about this. I think there needs to be a lot of attention to what's happening in minority-language media in Canada. It falls off the radar. Most people who are native English or French speakers aren't following it, so we really need to have attenti

Canada-China Relations committee  Are you asking me that question?

Canada-China Relations committee  I'm not studying the Chinese Canadian media, but the only thing that you can see is that it creates a gulf in how the Chinese Canadian community might see reality and how everyone else would. That is also not good for social cohesion where you might have more polarization, so we

Canada-China Relations committee  There's a wider discussion about reciprocity that social media platforms or media is not open in China and that as open societies, we're being exploited. There are those debates going on. I don't know where I stand on that. I think—

Canada-China Relations committee  Yes, I think we need to see a serious investment by Canada. We've seen some interesting money coming to Heritage Canada to deal with online disinformation, misinformation and to build citizens' capacity. What we're dealing with here is something different. We don't have any progr

Canada-China Relations committee  I saw a finger being held up there, so I'm not sure whether I'm allowed to talk or not.

Canada-China Relations committee  One minute? Listen, this is playing out on the Internet across the globe, but today I read that the Jamestown Foundation shows that the Chinese government has two million paid Internet commentators and 20 million part-time volunteers to engage in Internet trolling. When people e