Thank you very much, Mr. Youde.
Mr. Manthorpe, last August, the Prime Minister announced his intention to create a special team to combat Russian disinformation and propaganda.
Charles Burton, a former counsellor at the Canadian embassy in China, asks why limit ourselves to Russia. He says the Chinese propaganda campaign, which includes conspiracy theories promulgated by pro-Beijing Chinese-language media in Canada, threatens our democracy, and has already cost Chinese-Canadian MPs seats in the last election.
This strikes me as an extremely weighty statement. So I ask you, Mr. Manthorpe: why limit ourselves to Russia?