Finance committee  Can you clarify, is this in regard to a terrorist organization?

Finance committee  Inherently there are always going to be financial motives. I often compare security to a bit like studying theology: there's a whole lot of propositions and very little evidence to support any of them. As an academic, my work has always been about getting concrete research and da

Finance committee  I think one important way of getting ahead of this is that we need within our own government on the security sector a comprehensive professional development program. The only department in the Government of Canada that has a cradle-to-grave professional development career plan is

Finance committee  I would say that the link is tenuous, because we don't exactly understand the empirical linkages, and that this is an area that deserves much more attention by government, especially with respect to research, because it is an area that is very difficult to research and so require

Finance committee  You already heard my remarks with regard to what we do on the extraterritorial side in terms of capacity building, especially in Foreign Affairs and DND, which is very important. As Mr. Kennedy mentioned, I think the skill set within the RCMP.... Here is an organization where I

Finance committee  Inherently concrete numbers are hard to come by, but we do have a good British and a good Australian report I can share with you on that. In principle, the ISIS phenomenon is one of individuals in the region and own-source revenue, and less one of ISIS going abroad, but the chal

Finance committee  Good morning. Thank you for inviting me to appear before you this morning. I'll talk about context, problems, and what to do. First is the distinction, of course, between terrorist financing and money laundering. The challenge with terrorist financing is that much of the mon

Public Safety committee  It's inherently important, I think, in a way, to reassure Canadians that the systems we have in place are working as they should. I might also submit that we need to perhaps have a bit more of a nuanced conversation about the type of review and the type of oversight that is app

Public Safety committee  Again, I'm no lawyer, but I think there are sufficient thresholds built in not just with regard to the security of Canada, but also for demonstrating intent with regard to committing political violence. I think this intent provision is very important. I am not concerned. I can un

Public Safety committee  It concerns me, but perhaps for a slightly different reason than it concerns you. We always think about review as simply trying to make sure everything is on the up and up and everybody does everything right, but as the commissioner and SIRC will tell you, it's like peer review;

Public Safety committee  There certainly are improvements to be made.

Public Safety committee  Yes, with one qualifier that we should not confound review and oversight. Oversight is the politicization that we get from the United States with active involvement in ongoing cases. I think Canada is well served not to get involved in that. Yes, a more robust review indeed is

Public Safety committee  I think Canadians have a profound misconception of what disruption constitutes. CSIS being able to talk to parents to tell them that their child is up to no good is a disruption power. It's something that CSIS is currently not allowed to do. CSIS trying to find a way to cancel th

Public Safety committee  Let me preface this by saying that I am no lawyer and I am no law professor. There's a reason I decided to study political science instead. The challenge right now is that between surveillance and arrest, we don't have a whole lot of in between, because for powers of detention a

Public Safety committee  Monsieur le président, merci de l'invitation. Security is like the air we breathe: you don't realize that it's gone until it's too late. I think part of the discussion that we have about security policy is so difficult because we've all been to schools so we think we understan