The Privacy Commissioner plays an important role because of the privacy protections, but the Privacy Commissioner is not a national security expert. That department does not have that expertise. That would be one of the issues. Would they have the clearances to get at everything and look at everything? That would be a concern, although certainly the expertise of the Privacy Commissioner is welcome.
The recommendation I've also made is that other than the committee of parliamentarians, we need to have one unified, arm's-length, well-resourced review agency—some call it super-SIRC, but I like it call it the Canada national security review agency—to oversee all of national security. That organization could play a role in reviewing information sharing as well. The other piece, which I don't think would be touching as much on information sharing as on the law policy side, is the independent reviewer of national security law and policy.
The last piece I've suggested is that within government itself, probably within Public Safety and reporting to the minister, there should be some sort of information-sharing czar to oversee all of it. When you have all these pieces moving, we could actually have a national security disaster if something weren't caught or we could have a disaster when mistakes were made. Someone in government who's actually a bureaucrat could be overseeing all of this and reporting to the minister.
Those would be all the pieces, I think. There would be one from the public watchdog side but also one in government to make sure all the parts are moving well.