I think this is really not something that the OpenMedia community has discussed explicitly, but our mission and mandate is to be open and collaborative. I think that we all want to feel safe and we think that collaboration is important, so this is not to rule out working together with partners. I think this is really to echo what Mr. Fraser was saying about checks and balances.
As to your second question on whether we need similar tools, I think that to some extent it's a little problematic if it gets viewed as an arms race. If we decide that since the NSA has these tools, we need them too, it's problematic if checks and balance and proportionality are not being applied elsewhere. I think what we're really pushing for is for Canada to implement the checks and balances that we need, and then in exchange to actually ask our partners to do that as well.
Without having those checks and balances in place internally, our concern about collaboration with international partners is that the information that we might trust our partners and our own internal government agencies to use respectfully would not be treated the same way once it crossed our national borders. Having some very strict checks and balances and rules and regulations around that aspect is really important to us.