Thank you.
I think the importance of maintaining a balance between need to know and need to share, which has been an ongoing tension in the entire western intelligence world since the 9/11 attacks, is of critical importance. The problem I see in SCISA is that the balance was never properly thought through, and certainly was not found in terms of the legislative language adopted.
In response to the particular question about whether SCISA was a kind of back door to authorizing new information-gathering and intelligence-gathering powers—and this is a concern that many people raised in the context of the original debate over Bill C-51—frankly, I don't see that in SCISA or even implicitly in its knock-on effects. It doesn't change, as I think you probably heard. Certainly other committees have heard from government officials that it doesn't change the actual mandates and lawful information-gathering activities of any of the agencies listed in SCISA. It is purely about information sharing. Information sharing may trigger—and this is my colleague Tamir's point—additional intelligence gathering and investigations by agencies that receive information, but that activity could occur only under their existing lawful mandates.