Thank you so much to the chair. As always, everything that I say goes through the chair.
Minister, thank you so much for being with us today.
I think public trust is the very essence of what we're discussing. That is why the NDP put forward a motion that said every party has to agree on the person who's leading this process that we would like to be a public inquiry.
I think it's become fraught with political rhetoric. The key issue for me is that I want to have Canadians trust their institutions. If they don't trust their institutions, that becomes a very scary place to be.
We're here today, specifically to talk about the question of privilege, but also to try to unpack what happened and where the gaps are.
My first question is around how you received information from CSIS in that role. What is the process, and is there a problem with this process that needs to be addressed?
We heard testimony, which was shared from experts who said that intelligence is going...but there's not necessarily appropriate advice. When intelligence is going over to someone, there doesn't seem to be a very good process of making sure that this intelligence was consumed, how it was consumed and what came out of that.
I'm wondering if you could talk about the process part, from the history you've lived through, where we might want to see that improved and whether you felt at any time that this was a concern for you.