Mr. Lyall King at the Procedure and House Affairs Committee

On November 3rd, 2022. See this statement in context.

November 3rd, 2022 / 11:15 a.m.

Director, Risk Mitigation Programs, Communications Security Establishment, Security and Intelligence Threats to Elections Task Force

Lyall King

I will attempt to answer that. Thank you for your question.

I will simply note that this is a decision that is in the sole purview of the panel of five, as we would refer to them, the panel of five senior civil servants. The SITE task force does not have insight as to how and when they make those decisions. We stand here and we deliver the information so that they are able to make an informed decision.

We, as SITE, would not be able to answer the question of why something had or had not met the threshold. That is up to the purview of the panel, sir.

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