Public Safety committee  —I think you're on the losing side.

Public Safety committee  I'm sorry. Which election did you say?

Public Safety committee  No. That's not my area of expertise.

Public Safety committee  I would say that the probability is high. The more groups of exiles or diasporas that exist in a particular country or community that are viewed as oppositional to the sending authoritarian country, the greater the likelihood of digital surveillance, digital intimidation and then

Public Safety committee  I think that's something that you probably are in a better position to answer than I am regarding Canada. I do think that getting all different kinds of agencies on the same page to realize that it's a national security issue should be the priority here. That includes—

Public Safety committee  —asylum hearings.

Public Safety committee  Yes, I do believe it does influence national security, especially because we've seen the outsized influence that so-called oligarchs or politically important persons with this extreme wealth have. They can influence certain political party positions. They can influence certain na

Public Safety committee  You're talking about how they're influencing cybersecurity?

Public Safety committee  It would be national security, yes. Thank you for that. What we had prior to the war was the compartmentalization of issues into two streams. One was that we used to think about national security issues in terms of classic objectives and foreign policy. The other one was sort o

Public Safety committee  Thanks so much. The presence of exiled Russian media is not new; it's just being magnified now because of this sort of conflict. We've had very effective Russian investigative reporters doing work on Putin's corruption, holding investigations of Yevgeny Prigozhin and what he's b

Public Safety committee  I would agree with that. I think from the Russian world view, there's sort of an outside world, which is this drive towards multipolarity and not having the liberal west dominate the international system and having spheres of influence. There's also a domestic internal component

Public Safety committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. It's an honour to be able to address the committee. I would like to focus my remarks on two distinct groups of global and transnational networks that the war has spotlighted and that I believe reverberate back into western societies, Canada includ