Thank you very much.
For me, the overriding theme of the look at SCISA is to try to strike that right balance between what government needs to be able to do to counter legitimate threats to national security and the assurance that Canadians have the right to privacy and can share information with government with the confidence that it's not going to be used or abused or come up in odd ways to haunt them years later.
What we hear from departmental officials often is that if we, for instance, use a necessity threshold for the sharing of information, then that information won't get shared in time, or it will damage their operations.
If we want to do justice to the various principles that Professor Wark enunciated in his presentation, what are the oversight mechanisms that you see? To me, that seems to be an essential part of the program. Especially in light of everything we've learned over the last number of years about Edward Snowden and others, getting a little window into how government operates in some cases with this information, it's hard for me to think that Canadians are going to have confidence to trust government with their information unless they know that there's some kind of independent oversight.
What are the mechanisms that you can imagine that would allow for the operational latitude that security needs—not that it wants, but that it needs in order to do its job properly—and also give Canadians confidence that there's someone looking over the shoulder of these organizations that are entrusted with that information and that they're not simply policing themselves?