As I mentioned in my opening remarks, CSIS has been investigating foreign interference since its inception in 1984. It's part of the act. That includes foreign interference directed at elected officials. We have reported on this publicly, as I've mentioned, for over 30 years.
The ministerial directive I think is a helpful tool to help clarify the intent of the minister in how we are exercising these authorities. I can tell you that it has already been put in motion. We are developing plans and approaches to talk to other elected officials.
With that ministerial directive, it is also important to take into consideration...the limitations that I have mentioned. The CSIS Act is clearly limiting the ability of CSIS to share classified information. Between an act that is showing its age in terms of the ability to exercise our authorities and share information and the new ministerial directive, I think it's providing better clarity. We hope it will be helping CSIS's ability to share that information that is crucial for members of Parliament to have.