Thank you for your question.
I would say it happened before 2018. However, we have to admit that relations with China are complex. In 2010, the government was very reasonably trying to forge strategic, trade and financial links. Given that, it was a bit hard to say at the same time that there had to be a very concrete increase in the importance placed on security. I am simply saying that a balance needed to be found, but it happened before 2018.
The fact that CSIS has been talking about the danger that China represents for two decades is interesting, but I am not sure that what CSIS was telling the government in general was being shared with the Winnipeg lab. One of the problems involved in security intelligence is that there is a tendency to classify intelligence in such a way that it becomes difficult and complex to share it. So I do not know the extent to which departments that do not have a national security-related mission had access to CSIS's intelligence, but I would say without reservation that the change happened before 2018.