Thanks, Chair.
Thanks, Ms. Giles, for the opening remarks.
Thanks to everybody here for what you do on a daily basis to help keep our country safe. There are some very familiar faces sitting at the table.
Ms. Giles, you talked about the threats, about the need to up our game and about the important changes that Bill C-70 allows that will allow CSIS, in particular, to share additional information. However, one of those conditions upon sharing additional classified information—and we're talking only at the secret level here, with my bill—is that you're still going to want those people to have a clearance before you share that information. That could be other levels of government. That could be—in particular here with Bill C-377—parliamentarians, so that's MPs and senators. That's a necessary safeguard that they're going to need in order to get that information.
Is that correct?
I would just ask if that is part of the reason this was evident and brought forward by CSIS—whether to NSICOP through reporting up to the government—and why it was included in Bill C-70.
Is it that there is that recognition that more classified information needs to be shared at a much wider level in order to address the ongoing security threats?