Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you very much to the witnesses for taking the time to appear before committee today.
I'm going to start, if I could, with a real concern I have around information sharing. This was really a simple recommendation of Justice O'Connor's report, but what we have heard as we've gone through this process is really no assurance that anything has changed or that Justice O'Connor's recommendations have in fact been implemented.
Mr. O'Brien from CSIS was here and indicated that information was still being shared with countries with poor human rights records. We know that in Justice Iacobucci's report, he indicated that those same practices that were of such concern in the case of Mr. Arar were ongoing and continuing. We had a commitment from the minister stating that he would give a ministerial directive on sharing information with states that use torture, and that it would be forthcoming, and we haven't received it.
This is frustrating, because at the end of the day, the government's chief reason it gives is that we have the Air India inquiry going on, and they don't want to do anything until the Air India inquiry is complete. I'm just wondering if there is anything you feel that inquiry could possibly add to the recommendations already made on the caveats that should be in place with respect to Canadians sharing intelligence with countries that have poor human rights records, particularly countries that are known to torture.
I'll start with Mr. Cavalluzzo.