Foreign Affairs committee  Thank you. Very briefly, allow me to quote a statement by the chairperson and chief executive officer of the CRTC from March of last year, when Russia Today and Russia Today France were scrapped. Mr. Ian Scott said the following: Freedom of speech and a range of perspectives a

Foreign Affairs committee  Yes, exactly. We have seen Chinese media outlets being used as an outlet for Russia's disinformation and propaganda.

Foreign Affairs committee  Thank you very much for this question. For us, it's been very important, and I think from our complaints you will see that we have specifically targeted, in a way, although targeted is not the word.... We have called out CCTV-4 and CGTN for the airing of these forced televised c

Foreign Affairs committee  Yes. Thank you for that question. I won't go into too much detail, as obviously this is an ongoing complaint, but we lodged our original complaint in December 2019. This original complaint regarded one particular forced confession that was televised but also highlighted the broa

Foreign Affairs committee  With all due respect, Mr. Chong, I think that's a question that should be answered by the CRTC rather than us. We obviously asked several times.

Foreign Affairs committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. Thank you to the members of this committee for the opportunity to testify again on behalf of Fundacion Safeguard Defenders. As you may know, we aim to counter grave human rights violations, including through the use of existing regulatory frameworks. This

Canada-China Relations committee  I actually have one last initial recommendation listed—

Canada-China Relations committee  —so I thank you for giving me the opportunity to point it out. Let me just point out that I don't want to say the registry might not be useful. I just think that, as a stand-alone solution, it's not a solution, right? It must be part of a wider framework of options. My last rec

Canada-China Relations committee  The first one is obviously what a lot of countries have done, which is calling out publicly and immediately the fact that these are illegal. That is something Canada has done. The second is to launch investigations, which may take some time. This is again what is happening in Ca

Canada-China Relations committee  It's very hard to look into individual operations. There's not a lot of evidence on individual operations. We do have some larger numbers that are put out there by the PRC authorities, but we do see the use of third countries happening not only with Canada but also in other place

Canada-China Relations committee  I apologize. I will respond in English, because it's easier and I want to make sure that I'm very precise on this. We came across the police stations when we were tracking how, exactly, Chinese authorities managed to return—according to their own statements—230,000 individuals

Canada-China Relations committee  The abuse of Interpol by the PRC and other authoritarian regimes is a big issue for that organization. I think democratic nations, one, need to step up to the plate again in international organizations such as Interpol, but also others. For too much time we've kind of let countri

Canada-China Relations committee  Do you mean to the Chinese threat? I don't think we've seen a complete comprehensive response from any country so far. Obviously, the United States is the country that has woken up first to the threat. They are also obviously the prime enemy of the Chinese Communist Party. It's n

Canada-China Relations committee  I think the aims are very often both. It's my impression that the Chinese Communist Party mainly invested in the first place in trying to advance its interests, and other witnesses have said that this has been going on for decades. They've been laying the foundations for a long t

Canada-China Relations committee  Yes, absolutely, and it continues to do so.