In the United States, just to give you a flavour, they have 71 inspectors general looking at different areas of national security. I think it's about how you put those people together and about the mechanism for co-operation. Speaking for myself, I could say that the creation of the new parliamentary committee will give some power to....
I don't want to comment too much on that. The bill is before the House of Commons right now, at the report stage, probably, or close to it. This committee, when it's in place, will be able to have a look and co-operate with us. I think all of us have offered our co-operation to the committee to look into all the matters, because the committee will not be limited. It will have access to all. It may be limited access; I don't know, but it will be for Parliament to decide. Probably it will be
a step in the right direction.
It will be a first step, and we will see later on how it develops. For us, you cannot ask us to.... We do our jobs. We try to co-operate. We did inform the ministers that we should probably have the means to “follow the thread”. It's in the air. The government expressed their views on that.
For us, the more we can co-operate, the better for the information and national security community, I would say. You should remember what we all have in common, that we all want to protect Canadians from any threats from inside or outside. It's a goal that we all have. We cover a little angle of that. We ourselves don't do the operations, but we make sure that the operations of CSIS are done within the law.
We're all on the same side. All of the organizations are on the same side, the side of protecting Canadians against threats to national security.