Information & Ethics committee  One has to consider the source. I'll leave it at that. I just want to ask the committee to listen to what I had to say: Invite Paul McNamara here, and invite Peter Merrifield here.

Information & Ethics committee  Okay. All right. Let me go back to the—

Information & Ethics committee  —question you asked me.

Information & Ethics committee  Are you asking me?

Information & Ethics committee  I made mention of this in an article. Chrystia Freeland stood beside Jair Bolosonaro, the former president of Brazil, and tried to overthrow a duly elected government in Venezuela. The columnists and reporters in Canada praised her for injecting Canada directly into the sovereign

Information & Ethics committee  Mr. Bains, may I add to the question you've raised?

Information & Ethics committee  Thank you. Mr. Juneau talks in the abstract. I've spoken to many intelligence officers at CSIS directly. I'll tell you why they're having trouble recruiting and retaining CSIS officers: The job is stupefyingly boring. That's the fact of it. You enter CSIS with this impression th

Information & Ethics committee  Okay. Please hear me: Invite Mr. Merrifield and Mr. McNamara—an RCMP officer and a former Vancouver Police Department undercover officer—to appear here.

Information & Ethics committee  I didn't discredit his reporting; his reporting discredited itself. I'm also astonished to hear a panellist and a Conservative member of Parliament actually suggest that the former governor general has somehow been compromised by the PRC. This is the kind of hysteria that I allu

Information & Ethics committee  This is an absolutely crucial point that I have made before other committees. Hopefully, it will register with this committee, as well. Intelligence officers produce information. That information can be embellished or edited. Oftentimes—and this is something Mr. Johnston found

Information & Ethics committee  Thank you. Good morning. I have not agreed to appear here or at other committees to act as a proxy for any side in what has devolved into a rabid partisan fixation for or against a public inquiry. Instead, I am here to raise an alarm and say something that might help you and C