Maybe I can tackle that.
We had a whole section on governance in the report, and we made a couple of recommendations. The first was to create a cabinet committee on national security that would be chaired by the Prime Minister. Again, we're a little out of step with respect to our Five Eyes allies and even the G7. We're the only country that doesn't have this type of committee chaired by the Prime Minister.
We would like to think that if this committee were established and met on a regular basis, with the Prime Minister and key cabinet ministers in the national security and public safety space getting regular intel briefs and dealing with issues every couple of weeks, this would help solve some of the information-sharing issues. You'd have a natural vector, a place where all of this intel was ultimately going to land on the Prime Minister's desk with key ministers. Having that sort of target zone would help in some respects.
Again, more strategically it would also really help. We find that the government tends to be a bit too ad hoc and responsive on national security issues these days. The incident response group is great, but it's responsive. It's not thinking about the longer term.
The other recommendation we have is to actually create a stronger intelligence function at the centre in PCO. We have a group there right now called the international assessment secretariat. We recommend that we take ITAC, the integrated terrorism assessment centre, and consolidate it with IAS at PCO. It would almost be like a mini kind of director of national intelligence, like we have in the U.S.
I don't want to push that comparison too far, but it would be a coordinating body. We don't have a big intelligence community. We shouldn't be having these problems. This would be a funnel to bring all that intelligence together and make sure it is going to the right places and ultimately being funnelled up to this committee and to the Prime Minister, who is the key person who needs to have this to inform his or her decision-making at the end of the day.