I suppose that I would have to provide the same answer that I gave a bit earlier, which is that we asked the question when Bill C-51 came out: why was this necessary? We had existing laws in place already. We have never received an appropriate answer, and I don't know why.
I do know that it is not a mere aspiration to say that we have to ensure that we have our constitutional safeguards in place and in mind. I would urge this committee to remember that it is not a choice necessarily between security and civil liberties; to the contrary, I think that we can only have effective security when we ensure that our civil liberties are there.
Civil liberties do not prevent, in the context of SCISA, for example, relevant, necessary, and proportional information from being shared; rather, they ensure that only relevant, necessary, and proportional information is being shared.
We have a wealth of information provided from three federal commissions of inquiry that speak directly to these issues of information. I would very much urge this honourable committee to consider that and to implement it in any recommendations that you make.