Nothing in the Security of Canada Information Sharing Act requires CSIS, or indeed any other agency, to share information. This is a permissive regime. Without getting to the organizational, cultural, and legal difficulties that Professor Forcese has talked about, this is not going to guarantee, for a variety of reasons, that CSIS or CSE does share information that could prevent a potentially catastrophic act of terrorism. The government knew about Justice Major's very specific recommendation with respect to mandatory sharing, and that is nowhere reflected in this act.
