Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Mr. Fadden, thank you again for your testimony.
You raised something interesting a little earlier. As a member of the National Security and Intelligence Committee of Parliamentarians, I am well aware that it is possible to reword classified intelligence in order for it to be accessible to the public. We do that regularly in our reports, with the assistance of the intelligence community.
However, it also calls for a culture change. We saw this in the government's reaction when it closed up like an oyster when the time came to share the documents concerning the National Microbiology Lab in Winnipeg. So this culture of transparency, which allows for alerting the public without necessarily sharing the details of the intelligence, still needs to be adopted, I am afraid.
In 2021, when you appeared before this committee, you put China's threat level at about 8 out of 10. At the time when you were the director of CSIS, where did you put the threat represented by China at?