Thank you, Mr. Chair.
And I thank the witnesses for their presentations.
Accepting, Mr. Kennedy, that your organization doesn't have sufficient power and needs to have the kind of review and oversight and audit functions that you've talked about, we've had in existence for some 20-plus years now the SIRC. I'm going to address my question not to you, but to Ms. Pollak.
It seems to me that you're still hamstrung by the problem that you are restricted only to looking at the activities of CSIS, as I assume an even expanded CPC would have. I want to refer to the headlines today and the case of Mr. Abdelrazik. Let's face it, the whole notion of Canadian complicity and torture has brought this issue to the forefront.
He has complained to your organization. His lawyers have been told, I understand, that we can't proceed until we have a hearing to determine whether or not the committee can fully investigate CSIS actions, given the alleged possible involvement of another government department or of other countries, and the fact that Mr. Abdelrazik is unable to be cross-examined because he's in Khartoum.
Given that Mr. Justice O'Connor identified more than 20 government agencies and departments that could be involved in national security investigations, would you care to comment on the adequacy of the legislation that your agency has to seriously investigate any complaint of this nature?