Mr. Daniel Therrien at the Public Safety and National Security Committee

I'm back to the motivating factor for the whole bill, which is the Charkaoui decision of the Supreme Court, the need to strike the right balance between the protection of the rights of the individual who is the subject of the certificate and the legitimate protection of government information that is secret and where disclosure would have a detrimental effect on national security.

So this goes to the heart of it. The special advocate is there to try to achieve that balance. Their role and the rules of operation of the special advocate go to this balance. That's what I meant.