Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and honourable members of the committee, for inviting me to testify before you today on this landmark national security legislation. I would like to commend the all-party support that this legislation has received and your shared urgency to pass it.
I’m a journalist and civil society activist who has been researching and exposing foreign information and influence operations targeting Canada and our allies for nearly 15 years.
I am also a human rights activist. Through this work, I’ve had the privilege of supporting and collaborating with extraordinarily courageous champions of democracy and human rights, some of whom testified before this committee earlier this week. Others have faced intimidation or detention for speaking out against the totalitarian regimes in Beijing, Moscow, and Tehran. Some have been poisoned, and others brutally murdered for their activism and advocacy.
For my work in supporting many of those brave activists, and our common causes, I have directly witnessed and experienced the chilling effects of foreign authoritarian transnational repression.
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