It's a good question, but I think what we're saying to you, Mr. Kelly, is that the answer is, unfortunately, “Who knows?” This is an inappropriate definition that does not advance the interests of the security and intelligence community in terms of operational effectiveness and that threatens that balance of need to know and need to share with information overload, which has all kinds of other knock-on implications.
Going through the list in section 2 of SCISA, where these various activities that undermine the security of Canada are listed, you see that they are broader and looser and baggier definitions that are unnecessary when lined up with section 2 of the CSIS Act. For the life of me, I don't understand why we did not stick with the definition in section 2 of the CSIS Act, which encompasses everything that needs to be encompassed and avoids ambiguity and problems introduced by this newer definition.
If the committee has heard from some government official that there was something inadequate in the section 2 definition in the CSIS Act, then that would be an interesting thing to pay attention to, but I am not aware that you have, or that the public safety committee has either.