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Procedure and House Affairs committee No, I'm saying yes.
October 19th, 2023Committee meeting
Rob Stewart
Procedure and House Affairs committee From what I've heard, measures were recently taken to strengthen the intelligence sharing system to be more mindful of what is happening. That includes the creation of a cabinet committee.
October 19th, 2023Committee meeting
Rob Stewart
Procedure and House Affairs committee Obviously, we receive a lot of information daily, so we have to put it into context and determine what the really important information is. That's hard to do, and sometimes it takes time, but that's the key process in the system. Right now, we have a lot more processes to specifically address that.
October 19th, 2023Committee meeting
Rob Stewart
Procedure and House Affairs committee It's about figuring out what we need to do.
October 19th, 2023Committee meeting
Rob Stewart
Procedure and House Affairs committee There are links between the activities Global Affairs Canada undertakes and the open-source intelligence mechanism. There are also links with other security agencies and their activities, to be sure. The social media realm is very opaque. It's not at all easy to understand. We can't be certain as to how social media work or who's doing what.
October 19th, 2023Committee meeting
Rob Stewart
October 19th, 2023Committee meeting
Rob Stewart
Procedure and House Affairs committee I don't know what you quite mean by evidence.
October 19th, 2023Committee meeting
Rob Stewart
October 19th, 2023Committee meeting
Rob Stewart
Procedure and House Affairs committee Intelligence, particularly raw intelligence, can be anything and a range of things from something that you have some certainty about or something that sounds very speculative. This is why we assess intelligence, to make sure there's credibility. When we use language, it's typically used by the community as, “We assess this to be the case,” as opposed to “We know it to be true.”
October 19th, 2023Committee meeting
Rob Stewart
Procedure and House Affairs committee Again, for my part, in my role, I'm monitoring. It's the agencies, particularly CSIS and the Communications Security Establishment, which report to different ministers, by the way, who are kind of the first order briefers of the ministers when there are issues of importance. I would not presume to take their place.
October 19th, 2023Committee meeting
Rob Stewart
Procedure and House Affairs committee The SITE task force is composed of the Communications Security Establishment, CSIS, the RCMP and Global Affairs. Each of those is an army of people and a whole process of distilling information and bringing it into a report that is presented to the panel of five, which is what we call it.
October 19th, 2023Committee meeting
Rob Stewart
Procedure and House Affairs committee That is the role of the panel.
October 19th, 2023Committee meeting
Rob Stewart
Procedure and House Affairs committee I was not part of the panel in 2019, but I can say that I was part of the panel in 2021, yes.
October 19th, 2023Committee meeting
Rob Stewart
Procedure and House Affairs committee It has been subsequently reported and assessed by people who look at the operation of the panel ex post that the panel did not determine, in either election, that there was a threat to the integrity of the election.
October 19th, 2023Committee meeting
Rob Stewart
Procedure and House Affairs committee There is an ongoing level of foreign interference. It's a very serious problem. There are clandestine and deceptive efforts to influence our democratic processes in society on an ongoing basis. We should take it very seriously. It was not judged by the panel that it had an influence on the election.
October 19th, 2023Committee meeting
Rob Stewart