Information & Ethics committee  That is absolutely the case.

Information & Ethics committee  Elite capture is a process the Chinese Communist Party deploys through its United Front Work Department, which has 44,000 employees around the world. Its operations here in Canada are significant. These are through the friendship associations. Obviously, one could suggest that th

Information & Ethics committee  First of all, Operation Dragon Lord was not known to Canadian authorities until we broke it in Washington with the CBC in March of this year. Once again, I have no reason to believe that.... Operation Dragon Lord, or whatever form it's in today, has continued on. Canadian politic

Information & Ethics committee  Michel Juneau-Katsuya made it clear after the break of Operation Dragon Lord. He confirmed that such investigations were taking place. He stated that every prime minister had been influenced by the PRC over the past 40 years and had been, in one way or another, compromised by peo

Information & Ethics committee  Yes. Under the Harper government, a number of MOUs were entered into directly with the RCMP. This allowed some 25 China communist agents—we'll call them “policing agents”—to enter the country to look at repatriating supposed criminals from Canada. A number of them were deported

Information & Ethics committee  The operations for surveilling and suppressing the China diaspora community have been going on for the better part of two decades in an organized fashion, and this continues today. We were very aware of the police stations. The first test cases started in South Africa, where they

Information & Ethics committee  Very simply, it was a joint agency task force, according to the document that we have reviewed. Operation Dragon Lord sits within the repository of documents at the CIA. I would encourage members here to talk to their American counterparts and actually see if they can get access

Information & Ethics committee  I've read parts of the Johnston report. I find it interesting, but I do think that both the PMO and the CSIS brass did not provide the actual readout from the meeting with Han Dong.

Information & Ethics committee  I can't say that. I think Mr. Johnston is working in the best interests of trying to bring transparency and process to a very complex issue. Do I think that he, as a rapporteur, is in a strong position to speak objectively on the issues and arbitrate? The answer is that I believ

Information & Ethics committee  I think Mr. Johnston, over his 40-year career, has had a positive predisposition to China and the PRC in hopes that we could establish economic opportunities and gains for all Canadians—which I believe they fully subscribed to and believed. We have seen that this kind of approach

Information & Ethics committee  Absolutely. Our national security and the future of democracy are at stake. We need to really investigate and understand this from all different levels. Absolutely, a full inquiry should be called.

Information & Ethics committee  Yes.

Information & Ethics committee  I have countless cases and documents with declassified information reports that would support Mr. O'Toole's view 100%.

Information & Ethics committee  I think he's been given a set of information and a very small team. I don't think he was provided proper access to documents. I think that comment is clearly made based on the information he's been given. I think he has not had all of the information, nor did he actually call a n

Information & Ethics committee  I think successive governments have leveraged their relationship with the PRC for their own benefit. It's been in everyone's vested interests not to disclose, bring out, or clean house with respect to this issue.