On your first and principal point, with respect to our duties and responsibilities as they apply to CSIS, this committee sees as its principal mandate that we are the balance point between the public's right to live in a safe and secure society and the individual's human rights that need to be protected at all times.
I think what you're really asking for is a political statement. This committee didn't give political responses or react in that way in the past, and we won't be doing it now. Our mandate is CSIS and any and all of its actions and activities, and unfortunately--or fortunately, as the case may be--we have to stick to that.