Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
Thank you to the witnesses for coming today.
As you will know, the committee heard yesterday from both the current and former directors of CSIS with respect to the Maher Arar matter.
I have a couple of questions, and the first one stems from a request by Maher Arar that SIRC reopen its investigation of CSIS to determine if there was a cover-up of any intelligence reports.
You may be aware—certainly, you are—that the Syrian government stated that on three separate occasions they were told CSIS was not interested in having Maher Arar returned.
Secondly, there were concerns relating to the fact that the analysis of the data coming from the Syrian government was done by somebody with no experience in torture. Therefore, an assessment was made that it was likely not obtained by torture. Justice O'Connor said that someone with a proper background in torture would not have made that conclusion.
So the first question is, are you intending to reopen the investigation with respect to those particular items?