Procedure and House Affairs committee  It's absolutely fair to say it's not new. I think that—

Procedure and House Affairs committee  As long as governments have opposed one another, I would offer. The real shift, though, has occurred in the last five or six years. The more typical activities of espionage—of suitcases full of money, of coercion—are things that we've known about for a very long time, but over t

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Largely it was post the 2016 American election, when we started to understand how foreign countries were trying to influence that election. It was a real learning point for us to understand, particularly, what the Russians have been doing. We have paid more attention since that t

Procedure and House Affairs committee  It's a great question, because it is a complex web of activity. We very much take a whole-of-society approach to looking at foreign interference. You noted a number of areas that we look at, such as democratic institutions. We look at the particular communities within the count

Public Safety committee  Ten days on the job.... I'll try to measure that out. But 38 years of public service.... Within a portfolio like the one that I now lead, I will work closely with all the heads of those agencies in the development of advice for the government. That would be a key part of my resp