If I may, I'll supplement Ms. Stoddart's answer. The Treasury Board has issued guidelines on information sharing agreements. The departments are therefore subject to the Treasury Board policy. It establishes guidelines and parameters in the event an information sharing agreement or contract is entered into. That includes the need to protect information once it is transferred to the foreign government authority and the need to obtain assurances that that information will not be subject to any secondary use. These guidelines exist, but we see in practice that very few oversight mechanisms are applied in the case of these agreements, apart from the work that we do at the time of an audit or investigation.
On April 29th, 2008. See this statement in context.