I'm happy to do that. I understood that Mr. Long asked me about scrapping Bill C-51, but I can stick to SCISA.
In SCISA, as I said, information sharing needs to happen. We see the extremes. We see Air India and Arar. We see both sides of it not working.
It needs to work, but as Mr. Kapoor said, it speaks of activities that undermine the security of Canada, and then it lists a number of things in the act, which I'm sure you've all seen, and that is not the list. It is an open-ended list, given content by bureaucrats across government. Those are just suggestions about what undermines the security of Canada; it could include other things.
Essentially, the definition is the heart of the bill. You start with a fundamentally flawed definition and then you start to share information. There are no controls on how that information is shared. The door is open for sharing with foreigners, and that could include Saudi Arabia, and now, with the Trump administration talking about torture, it could be there.
Then I'll point out to you section 9. Section 9 says that when someone shares information and it harms a Canadian or some person—but let's say a Canadian, as in the Arar case—they're immune from paying out compensation or being sued for it.
It's essentially a busted bill. What we need to do is say that information needs to be shared, that it needs to be reliable, that it needs to be in compliance with the charter and the rule of law, and we need to make sure that CSIS actually works with the RCMP to move intelligence into evidence and get real terrorists off the street. The CSIS amendments actually are counterproductive to that.