Foreign Affairs committee  As deputy minister of foreign affairs and former deputy minister of international trade, I would say that there is a great deal of collaboration between federal and provincial offices located around the world. In fact, I've had the opportunity on several occasions to meet with my

Foreign Affairs committee  I also come from the development side. I was at CIDA when the amalgamation was announced, and it sort of rocked my world for the same reason. I will maybe differ with you just a little bit to say that 10 years on, I think it really works for Canada. I think having a common team

Foreign Affairs committee  I don't know whether you have the sequence right or not. Antoine might know.

Foreign Affairs committee  Thank you for your question. I remember very well the 2019 Senate report on cultural diplomacy. We agreed with almost all of its recommendations. We value cultural diplomacy. When I was a diplomat in Havana several years ago, we did a lot of it. It's like the parliamentary dipl

Foreign Affairs committee  I'm not a defence policy expert. I will simply say that if you unpack how AUKUS started, it began with a very large submarine purchase by Australia, which was committed to purchasing submarines from France and then decided, because of the long lag time, that they would purchase f

Foreign Affairs committee  Yes. Was that the easy one?

Foreign Affairs committee  The top priority is investing in the foreign service. Minister Joly gave the statistic. France had a 20% across-the-board budget increase and hired 800 new diplomats. We have allowed our foreign service to atrophy over time, in terms of recruiting, retaining and investing, incl

Foreign Affairs committee  I'm sorry; do you mean the Five Eyes?

Foreign Affairs committee  I'm not aware that we've ever been shut out of the Five Eyes. Five Eyes is an intelligence-sharing agreement that grew out of U.S.-U.K. collaboration in the Second World War. It was later extended to the three other eyes, those being New Zealand, Australia and Canada, and we're v

Foreign Affairs committee  I challenge the premise of the question that we're being excluded. AUKUS is a submarine deal among nations with primary security interests in the Pacific. That isn't really where we are focused in terms of submarines. There are additional elements to AUKUS beyond the core subma

Foreign Affairs committee  The short answer is yes. We received the report. We acted on it. We accepted the recommendations. If you look at the letter that my predecessor, Marta Morgan, wrote in response to the report, which is in the public domain, you'll see that we took some issue with the characterizat

Foreign Affairs committee  Just to confirm, her husband's not a child.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I've already made my views known on the importance of this particular issue of the challenges that we are facing. I believe I characterized it as the greatest long-term threat with respect to Chinese foreign interference. Diaspora communities will grow. Frankly, we don't know as

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Madam Chair, that's an excellent question. The member is right. Following the G7 Summit held in Charlevoix in 2018, Canada created the Rapid Response Mechanism Canada to try to coordinate the efforts of the G7 countries. And it's to bring to light issues of misinformation and

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Action had been taken by the same organization that produced the intelligence. It is an accurate statement that the way the system works is that the collectors collect and they feed to consumers. On the basis of that, portraits form over time from disparate pieces of intelligence