Procedure and House Affairs committee  Every couple of days you get a binder. How thick is that binder? You're showing about four inches.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  You said you get intelligence. Is intelligence evidence?

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I'm telling you what he said. He claimed that Stephen Harper was naive on China. The intelligence officer before him said that Stephen Harper was soft on China. Why were you guys in the Prime Minister's Office not taking those threats seriously?

Procedure and House Affairs committee  In fairness, you didn't have to be briefed on it. It was a public document by CSIS. I have a series of questions for you. Yes or no is sufficient, if you wouldn't mind indulging me. You were never briefed on foreign interference after a Chinese state news agency asked a reporte

Procedure and House Affairs committee  You were never briefed on foreign interference after the same news agency was involved in a honeytrap operation with the Conservative parliamentary secretary.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  You were never briefed on foreign interference when a year earlier, CSIS director Richard Fadden publicly warned that some politicians were falling under the influence of foreign governments through personal relationships.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Okay. You were never briefed about foreign interference after John Baird took a job with a Chinese billionaire.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  You were never briefed about foreign interference after that same Chinese billionaire donated $1 million to the National Arts Centre gala, while sitting next to the gala's honorary chair Laureen Harper.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Madam Chair, I'll turn the rest of my time to Mr. Turnbull.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Thank you, Ms. Byrne, for coming here today. You noted in your comments earlier on that you didn't receive any information or read any reports regarding foreign interference, but—

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Okay. In 2013, CSIS's public report identified foreign interference as an existing threat and one that was going to continue to grow in future years. Did you read that report?

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Did you receive that report?

Procedure and House Affairs committee  You were the deputy chief of staff at the time.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  You don't recall.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  You paint a very different picture of Stephen Harper than some of the other witnesses who have come before us today. A former intelligence officer said that Stephen Harper “became soft” on China and “agents of influence were capable of gaining access to him and changed the cour