Thank you, Mr. Chair.
It's good to be back in committee with all of you.
Thank you to the three witnesses. I'm sorry we were late getting here.
I want to quickly clarify, in response to some of the comments that were made earlier in part of the presentation, that we're talking about information sharing. That's the focus of this study.
I'll quickly read into the record the purpose and principles of SCISA: SCISA is intended to protect Canadians against activities that undermine the security of Canada by encouraging and facilitating the sharing of information related to such activities among federal institutions. Some of the conversations seemed to take a bit of a different direction there.
I'll open up with my first question, which concerns the Five Eyes.
We know that it's important to the Government of Canada to have allies across the world. I would like to break it down into three separate questions for all three of you.
Do you believe these types of allied relationships better protect Canadians? If so, do you believe it is important that our national security organizations have tools similar to those of our allies? Are any of you aware of any of the information-sharing laws and oversight mechanisms of any of these allied countries?
I'll open it up to conversation.