Thank you, Mr. Chair.
To our witnesses, thank you for your patience.
I know we've heard concerns from many of our witnesses about the necessity versus “undermines the security of Canada”. If I understand the positions correctly from our witnesses, we have two who want to repeal the act completely and start over, or not start over, and Mr. Karanicolas, if I understand you correctly, you want to perhaps not necessarily abolish the act completely, but make numerous changes.
Many Canadians—and I think of the people in my own riding, when I knock on doors and when I meet people—if they thought that an intelligence-gathering agency or a security enforcement agency of some sort, a law enforcement agency, possessed information that undermined the security of Canada, they might feel that it may be appropriate to share information that undermined the security of Canada with a more appropriate agency to exercise its judgment and deal properly with that information.
Perhaps make the case again, or explain it in a way that would resonate with residents who have concerns about those who would undermine the security of Canada.
Perhaps we'll start with Ms. Austin.