International Trade committee  Thank you for the question. The mandate of Invest in Canada is to promote investment in Canada to develop our industries. Exporting phosphates and other minerals is the priority of other organizations.

International Trade committee  Thank you. Thank you for the question. To the best of my knowledge, we seized one shipment but that was released, so it is no longer seized and—

International Trade committee  That would be zero at the end of that process.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Yes. They are able to receive classified material. They would be able to receive all of it.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Thank you for that question. It will allow me, I hope, to clarify. In the instance we have been talking about, the 2021 election, for which I was a member of the election panel, through a series of meetings and a significant amount of discussion based on information flowing to

Procedure and House Affairs committee  If you'll forgive me, I think the question is for someone other than us. Let me take the opportunity, if I may, to make a couple of points. The information that eventually flows to the panel is about what's going on in the public domain, to which many people have access. We have

Procedure and House Affairs committee  That's correct.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  The panel operates by consensus. There was no disagreement. The recommendation Mr. Rosenberg makes is a worthy recommendation, but as things stand under the protocol, the announcement would occur only were the threshold to be met.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I will go back to a point that Mr. Morrison just made. The panel is briefed by the SITE task force. It looks at the evidence that it has to hand and the threshold for deciding that foreign interference committed by a foreign entity with covert and clandestine properties has occu

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Allow me to clarify my prior answer, which was to the question of whether the panel had referred information to the RCMP. My point was that we know the panel receives information from the RCMP and, indeed, from other sources. Prior to the meetings of the panel, which at times inc

Procedure and House Affairs committee  That is correct.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Your question embeds many assumptions, sir. To go back to your prior question, the panel was briefed regularly by the RCMP and intelligence agency. It wasn't really in the ambit of the panel to refer things to the RCMP. Secondly, based on what the panel was being informed of,

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I am saying, sir, that parties are briefed regularly by officials about what is going on. To the point about what you have assumed to be the case, that was not being told to the political parties by officials.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I'm aware that there was a meeting after the election with representatives of the Conservative Party on that day.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  The panel was briefed by intelligence agencies and the RCMP on the best information they had available.