Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman.
Thank you, Mr. Elcock and Mr. Judd, for coming to the committee. I just want to share some of my feelings about this issue, and hopefully we can work together to solve some of the issues.
Canada is a country of immigrants. Many of us come from some rude states and have seen human rights abuses to our forefathers or our relatives or are witnesses to such abuses. This is why it is so important for those of us who came to Canada, who came for the protection of human rights, to understand what's going on in this issue.
First, for the years I've been in Canada, I've really appreciated the work of CSIS. During the days when I was a human rights activist, CSIS was very much on alert to the things we faced. They were helpful in giving me and my colleagues confidence in this country.
Now I want to get into the questions.
We expect CSIS to protect Canadian citizens. We talk about sharing information with the States, so this is a question to Mr. Elcock particularly. After the deportation of Mr. Arar to Syria by the U.S. government, I would have expected that the Americans would have shared voluntarily with CSIS what additional information it was that they had on Mr. Arar that led them to make the decision to deport him to Syria. If they didn't do it voluntarily, I would have expected CSIS to ask for that information in order to protect our citizens. Have you asked, or have we asked?