Science and Research committee  Yes. I would say that some would perhaps take a different approach from Mr. Hinton, which is that universities can do a significant amount of the legwork if they are told what the sensitive research areas are and what the potentially problematic countries are, and if they are tol

Science and Research committee  There are two problems here. One is researchers who, in the past, have had collaborations as co-authors, for instance, that would today be construed as problematic. How do we get them to atone for the sins of their past? The other is that there may still be reasonable grounds o

Science and Research committee  It is a problematic issue. Certain notable countries in this field, such as Australia, the United States, the United Kingdom and France are much further advanced than we are. Germany is having pretty much the same conversations we are. However, since Canada has a very diverse soc

Science and Research committee  As an example, it took the government seven years to ban Huawei from Canada's telecommunications sector. So, in terms of the time it takes to make important decisions concerning national security and the ability of the national security intelligence system to facilitate relevant

Science and Research committee  The problem is the way we establish links between investments and—

Science and Research committee  There are three considerations here. One is that the data we have on China and Chinese problematic collaborations is more comprehensive in the public domain than that for other authoritarian hostile actors. However, the challenge by China, because of the nature of its industry

Science and Research committee  Yes, but I would also say that in 2017 we had a qualitative and quantitative paradigm shift in the aggressive posture by China and the systematic leveraging of technology to undermine our way of life, which now poses an existential threat to Canada in a way that we did not have b

Science and Research committee  I would say that since 2015, we've seen significant changes in Australia, in particular when it comes to foreign funding, including a foreign agent registry that requires universities to report such funding. We've seen aggressive measures by the U.S. administration, including the

Science and Research committee  First of all, thank you for your comments regarding the use of both official languages and for your concern in this regard. In the past, in other committee meetings, your Bloc Québécois colleagues have commented on the quality of my bilingualism. I am an immigrant to this country

Science and Research committee  Aside from the known malfeasance by Chinese intelligence actors with regard to institutions, such as the complete data exfiltration of the Australian National University, we also had the really comprehensive report by the Australian Strategic Policy Institute, which was the first

Science and Research committee  Well, I would say that we are recently aware of public debate about a certain individual whose report became quite prominent, who has had a least a dozen trips to China and who has referred to a major Chinese university as that individual's second home. Some of that individual's

Science and Research committee  Mr. Chair, thank you for the invitation. I will deliver my remarks in English, but will be happy to answer your questions in the two official languages. I will skip over an introduction that lays out the infiltration and co-optation of Canadian research by Chinese defence intel

Public Safety committee  In my opinion, there should be basically two types of complaints: those for CBSA detentions and those for the land border. At the maritime border, there are very few interactions. When arriving in the country by plane, and you are neither Canadian nor American, you have to fill

Public Safety committee  As you know, at RMC I'm not just a professor. I also happen to be a civil servant. For the task that I currently have for National Defence, I have a small budget. I have a small staff. When you want to change your staff or you want to change your budget, there's a proper business

Public Safety committee  The more reasons you provide or the more inquiries you're going to get, the more strain you're also going to provide on the agencies. Ultimately, this is for the government of the day to figure out. We probably need to have a proper assessment process. For instance, one thing tha